Yesterday, we opened up our season preview with Villanova’s first five games - most notably, a match-up with UCLA and the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic at the Mohegan Sun Arena. For me, seeing those games mapped out really sent home the absolute marathon Villanova will be running in just the first two weeks of the season. Well, it doesn’t get much easier.
After the Wildcats return from Connecticut, they will kick off their Big 5 slate against LaSalle, UPenn, and St. Joe’s, head to Madison Square Garden to take on the Syracuse Orange, and then fly to Waco, Texas for a Sunday afternoon tilt between the defending champion Baylor Bears.