Posted by admin | Posted in Ticket Venue | Posted on 21-02-2012
Tags: basketball, final, Four, ncaa, oklahoma, state, tournament
The game winning shot by John Lucas III. The win over St. Joes sent the Cowboys to the 2004 Final Four.
The game winning shot by John Lucas III. The win over St. Joes sent the Cowboys to the 2004 Final Four.
Greatest St. Joes team to EVER step on a court hands down
You can thank Macnow and Cataldi at WIP for that. They have bashed Nova continuously for years. Created a lot of bitterness. Now Nova is good and these 2 idiots want to suck up to them.
This was started before Macnow and Cataldi went on WIP. Most of the blame relies on one arrogant Rollie Massamino and the President of Villanova in 1991. They wanted out of the Big 5 round robin. It left a bad taste in the other schools mouths. I’m glad Nova in 1999 decided to go back to the big five round robin. Kudos to Jay Wright for being both a Nova coach and a Big 5 guy.
@jaytf123 You’re right, a couple still playing pro. It was an classic game, and made St. Joe’s supporters out of more than one Cowboy, I was so impressed with this bunch.
And don’t forget “The Cuz” Anthony Gargano. That guy is a Temple grad which is fine but when St. Joes was going undefeated in 04 he rooted for St.Joe over his alma mater because he wanted them to be undefeated. Rhea Hughes a Temple grad and of WIP strongly disagreed to her credit rooted for Temple over the Hawks. I’m sure if Temple had a decent team that year he would not have done that. What a front runner. I don’t think he would have done that for Villanova if they were going undefeated.
Temple wanted out just as much as Villanova did. They ended up building an arena bigger than the Palestra. Nova joined the Big East at the right time. They had no way of knowing how quick it would grow into a powerhouse conf. Whole mindset had to change. Recruits were not coming to Nova to play Big Five Round robin games. Sorry some people cant or won’t understand this. Don’t forget, Nova students cheered at the announcement that Rollie had left and started chanting Walking Rebels to mock UNLV.
Wrong. Temple wanted Big Five games at their own arenas not out of the round robin, The proof??? Look at games from 1992 -99. Temple still played 4 Big Five teams a year and even though only two of them were considered “Big Five” games. When Nova was playing 2 big five games a year those 2 or three teams they substituted were donkeys. During the Massamino era at least they played tough teams in December which no other Big East team did.
I’m a St. Joe fan as you can figure out and we play all of our A-10 home games at the Fieldhouse not the Palestra. However if it were up to me I would make it a state law that all Big Five games be at the Palestra. Just 4 games a year for the 4 schools besides Penn whose home court it is. Play the other games any where you want. Just keep the Big Five games at the Palestra. I remember when you guys cheered the Massamino announcement. I thought it was classless considering what he had done 4 u.
i was at that game..best game i was ever at
st joe’s robbed of the national championship
GO COWBOYS!!!!! I’m a huge osu fan and I’ve met John Lucas three times and he’s a beast
Lucas….asshole…he wasted it too…Nelson and gang deserved that win…Lucas is a nobody now.
……GO JAM light it up for me in Orlando
I miss John Lucas:/
@htownhomie06 HA completely agree… St.Joe’s was SO overhyped that year. Pokes deserved to win this game and should have beaten Ga Tech if it wasn’t for that damn Will Bynum. Oh well, he sucks now in the league…
@TAC315 Yes. I wanted Oklahoma State to win…. and we did!!! Tony Allen>Jameer Nelson… Joey Graham>Delonte West. OSU>St.Joes
i remember crying as a 9 year old when this happened. aah these 2 teams now seem long gone from the contenders they were when this happened
@jaytf123 What has Phil done since 2004? How long does he get a free ride? If I were a St. Joes fan/alum, I would be annoyed- he always seems to seek the spotlight. Macnow and Cataldi will always kiss his ass, but how much more can SJU fans take?
@jaytf123 Question: Why do so many Villanovans have sore backs? Answer: years of carrying the Big 5 have taken their toll.
Temple has a 10000 seat arena that they rarely sell out. Interest in Lasalle is nonexistant. Any city series game not involving Nova generates little to no interest. Maybe for once, people should look at the other 4 schools to see what is wrong, instead of just blaming Nova.
GEORGIA TECH OWNS OKLAHOMA STATE. SIT DOWN COWBOYS
How can you say St. Joes was overhyped that year? Before the OSU game, they lost 1 game and it was in the conference tournament. I understand that the A10 is not the ACC or other big conferences, but it is very impressive to go underfeated in the regular season when conference rivals are gunning for you each and every game. They even made it to the elite 8 and they would have made it to the final four if Lucas didn’t make that clutch shot.
@calvinjohnsonisGOD Owned as in a last second shot? Then yeah.
Lebron beat New Jersey, 107
Lebron Beat New Jersey, 107, 104
Btw for the people that John Lucas is a nobody I wanted to let them know he is ACTUALLY playing for the Chicago Bulls who is one of the best teams in the league!! Go pokes!!