I Bleed Blue and White

Wesley Johnson of Syracuse.  I am absolutely stunned, as I thought Scottie Reynolds was a virtual lock for this award.  This honestly may have come down to one shot.  If Scottie nails the game-winning 3 ball on Saturday against West Virginia, he adds to his impressive year and probably wins the award.  Regardless, though, Reynolds should have won.  In the end, think about it this way.  This snub should piss the heck out of not only Scottie, but the team, the coaching staff, and the fans.  Let’s hope Scottie uses it as motivation and goes out there and proves why he truly is the Big East Player of the Year.  If he can get on a roll, the rest of the team should be inspired, which could allow them to gain some momentum.  In reality, as Scottie goes, the team goes.  Other notable awards coming out of the Big East today were Jim Boeheim for Big East Coach of the Year and Lance Stephenson for Big East Rookie of the Year.

It’s BIG EAST Media Day (I’m so pumped that the season is almost here) and this is the time when coaches get together and vote on the various pre-season lists.

Villanova was picked to finish 1st in the conference this year, narrowly edging out West Virginia, who finished just 3 points behind them in voting.  UConn and Louisville round out the Top 4. Villanova was last picked 1st in 2005-2006.

Scottie Reynolds was selected as a 1st-Team All-BIG EAST member, but he was the only Wildcat to garner such honors. Luke Harangody was picked as the Player of the Year (no problem there, he’ll have the stats but not the team) and Lance Stephenson was picked as the freshman of the year.

…Good for the team, now you’ve just got to go out and actually earn it…congrats to Scottie as well who I feel has never gotten the respect he deserves with these types of things…

…A little shocked Redding didn’t make the 2nd-team or Honorable Mention…he may be out for the fall semester but he’ll be back for the conference slate…I’d be shocked if he wasn’t on one of those teams at the end of the year…

Yeah, well he finally committed to a school today. Cincinnati of all places. Not that there is anything wrong with the Bearcats, but they were just never really in the picture until these last few weeks.

So, um, there you have it. If you saw the McDonald’s All-American Game you undoubtedly saw Stephenson hot-dogging it all over the court, and you probably grew to dislike him just a little bit. But now that he’ll be a Bearcat for probably at least one year. So now we Villanovans have the opportunity to play against him, and….how do I say this politely?

Make sure Mr. Born Ready looks like an infant straight out of the womb.