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🚨NEW #Big5Hoops Content from @aaronbracy.bsky.social

✳️Bracy Column Headline: Fran McCaffery has Penn back on track to be Penn again

✍️Excerpt: Now, he seems in just the right spot, right where he wants to be, right where Penn needs him to be.

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Aaron Bracy’s Big 5 Column: Fran McCaffery has Penn back on track to be Penn again - Big5Hoops.com
By AARON BRACY   November 22, 2025 Big5Hoops.com It took Penn just 11 minutes, 17 seconds to walk to Drexel’s campus for Friday night’s crucial Big 5 contest at the DAC. The road back to respectabilit...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🏀Big 5 Classic Schedule

📍12/6, Xfinity Mobile Arena

✔️Fifth-place game: Drexel vs. La Salle, 2 pm

✔️Third-place game: Saint Joseph's vs. Temple/Villanova loser, 4:30 pm

🏆Championship: Penn vs. Temple/Villanova winner, 7:30 pm

📺NBC Sports Philadelphia

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November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🏀Big 5 Pod Results/Schedule

Pod 1
11/8: Saint Joseph's 76, Drexel 65
11/17: Penn 83, Saint Joseph's 74
11/21: Penn 84, Drexel 68

Pod 2
11/11: Temple 90, La Salle 63
11/19: Villanova 70, La Salle 55
12/1: Temple at Villanova, 6:30 pm, FS1

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November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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🔥Penn’s Ethan Roberts and TJ Power in 2 Big 5 games:

🔥Roberts: 30.5 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 57.6% FG (19-33), 45.5% 3PT (5-11), 90% FT (18-20)

🔥Power: 20.5 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 46.2% FG (12-26), 41.2% 3PT (5-12), 75% FT (12-16)

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November 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Penn’s Ethan Roberts scored 30 points against Drexel in the Quakers’ 84-68 win on Friday night that clinched a spot in the Big 5 Classic title game.

He talked about a new energy at Penn with first-year coach Fran McCaffery.

“It’s probably my favorite season I’ve ever played.”
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
🗓️Saturday Big 5 Schedule

Drexel at Saint Joseph’s, 1 pm ✳️
Monmouth at La Salle, 3:30 pm
Queens at Villanova, 7 pm

✳️=LIVE coverage from @aaronbracy.bsky.social

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November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🏀Friday Big 5 Results

Penn 119, Rowan 72

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November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🗓️Friday Big 5 Schedule

Rowan at Penn, 7 pm

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November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🏀Thursday Big 5 Results

No games

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November 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
📆Wednesday Big 5 Schedule🏀

Coppin State at La Salle, 6:30 pm
Delaware State at Temple, 7 pm

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November 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🗓️Tuesday Big 5 Results🏀

No games

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November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🗓️Tuesday Big 5 Schedule🏀

No games

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November 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🗓️Monday Big 5 Results🏀

Drexel 93, Widener 59
Saint Joseph’s 85, Lafayette 76
BYU 71, Villanova 66

FULL season schedule/results👇
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November 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🗓️Big 5 Schedule, Nov. 3-9

Monday
Widener at Drexel, 6 pm
Lafayette at Saint Joseph’s, 7 pm
Villanova vs. BYU, 9:30 pm, Las Vegas, TNT

Wednesday
Coppin State at La Salle, 6:30 pm
Delaware State at Temple, 7 pm

Friday
Rowan at Penn, 7 pm

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November 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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🚨NEW STORY for #Big5Hoops🚨

Will the Big 5 end its three-year #MarchMadness drought this season? And which team(s) could do it?

I ranked each team's chances. (You might be surprised by my top candidate.)

FULL story👇
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October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🏀Predicted conference order of finish for Big 5 by official preseason polls:

Drexel 10 of 13 in CAA
La Salle 13 of 14 in A-10
Penn 7 of 8 in Ivy
St. Joe's 7 of 14 in A-10
Temple 9 of 13 in AAC
Villanova 7 of 11 in Big East

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October 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🏀IT'S HERE‼️

🗓️BIG 5 2025-26 COMPOSITE SCHEDULE

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October 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Acaden Lewis led four Wildcats in double figures with 15 points. #Big5Hoops
#Villanova defeated #VCU 70-51 in an exhibition on Sunday evening at the Pavilion.

"We have a long way to go on both ends, but I thought our intensity was really good," Wildcats coach Kevin Willard said.

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October 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
#Villanova defeated #VCU 70-51 in an exhibition on Sunday evening at the Pavilion.

"We have a long way to go on both ends, but I thought our intensity was really good," Wildcats coach Kevin Willard said.

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October 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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🚨NEW #Big5Hoops CONTENT‼️

🏀Atlantic 10 Media Day Notebook:
✅La Salle: Origin of Rebound That Jawn
✅Saint Joseph's: 3 Questions for Donahue
✅Is A-10 noncon sked good enough?
✅MORE! #A10MBB #A10Fifty 👇
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Atlantic 10 Media Day Notebook: La Salle’s ‘Rebound That Jawn’ Grabs Attention - Big5Hoops.com
By AARON BRACY October 2, 2025 Big5Hoops.com Darris Nichols and La Salle grabbed a lot of attention at Atlantic 10 Media Day on Tuesday in Pittsburgh, both for the Explorers’ approach to playing this ...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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"To you Phil Martelli, from the teenager in his childhood kitchen, wide-eyed undergrad in your office, and excited author-to-be in your living room, thank you for helping my sportswriting dreams come true.”

A column on Phil Martelli’s impact on my career👇
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Bracy Column: To Phil Martelli, thank you for helping my sportswriting dreams come true - Big5Hoops.com
By AARON BRACY September 16, 2025 Big5Hoops.com On mornings inside my childhood home on 34 Sheffield Drive in Willingboro, you could find me seated at the kitchen table. At my back, the window overloo...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🚨New #Big5Hoops Content🚨

Phil Martelli to receive Joe Lapchick Character Award on Friday.

"What drove me always was relationships. I would say to people that I treasure and work harder on being Phil Martelli than I work on being ‘The Coach.’”

Story👇
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Joe Lapchick Character Award a special honor for Phil Martelli - Big5Hoops.com
By AARON BRACY September 15, 2025 Big5Hoops.com Phil Martelli has accomplished so much as a basketball coach, beginning in the high school ranks at Bishop Kenrick High School before a 24-year career a...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🚨NEW Bracy Sports Media Podcast: Episode 52‼️

🏀Featuring FULL recording of Steve Donahue's introductory Zoom press conference as Saint Joseph's new coach

🎧Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or RSS below

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Episode 52: Recording of Saint Joseph’s coach Steve Donahue’s introductory Zoom press conference | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
In today's episode, recorded on Friday, September 12, 2025, I play the full recording of the introductory Zoom press conference of new Saint Joseph's coach Steve Donahue. I was not able to participate...
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September 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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🚨Announcing book #2 topic …

Allen Iverson and the 2000-01 Philadelphia 76ers‼️

That team is one of the most beloved in Philly sports history, and I can’t wait to tell the story of that amazing season!

Follow #2001SixersBook for updates.

📸: Scott W Anderson Photography

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August 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Mark Armstrong (Villanova) had another outstanding game for the #Sixers in Friday's 87-83 win over #Nets in #NBA Summer League:

23:50 minutes, 23 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 7-16 FG, 2-5 3PT, 7-9 FT

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July 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM