{"id":177077,"date":"2024-04-25T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/?p=177077"},"modified":"2024-04-25T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:09:22","slug":"jalen-brunson-in-their-eyes-villanova-is-not-a-philly-school-but-when-we-win-apparently-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2024\/04\/jalen-brunson-in-their-eyes-villanova-is-not-a-philly-school-but-when-we-win-apparently-we-are.html","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson: &#8220;In Their Eyes [Villanova] Is Not a Philly School, But When We Win Apparently We Are&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Brunson was asked about Sixers fans being upset with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NovaMBB\/status\/1782595740054802681\">Villanova basketball&#8217;s Twitter post after a heartbreaking loss<\/a>. Here&#8217;s what he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;In their eyes, we&#8217;re not a Philly school. But when we win, apparently we&#8217;re a Philly school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jalen Brunson on Villanova <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/okVKWy9meO\">pic.twitter.com\/okVKWy9meO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Knicks Videos (@sny_knicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sny_knicks\/status\/1783187288668697053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well to certain people i.e. Nova fans you are. But I can promise Jalen that not one person who rooted for Temple, LaSalle, Drexel, St. Joes or Penn ever considered Villanova a Philly school. Before or after they won. And now we never will after that tweet. I&#8217;d say the exact same thing if Temple&#8217;s program or any other team from the Big 5 tweeted it. <em>&#8220;Well Kyle there aren&#8217;t any Temple alum in the NBA currently for them to tweet about.&#8221;<\/em> For now I retort! For now.<\/p>\n<p>There might not be an argument more played out in Philly than the one asking, &#8220;Is Villanova a Philly school?&#8221; Nova people will say they don&#8217;t care (they do). They hate not being accepted. The rest of the Big 5 will say they are not (it&#8217;s true). Hell Jay Wright thinks Nova is a Philly school (he&#8217;s biased) and was worried about having the 2016 National Championship parade in Center City:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C0KaS7xp_Av\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C0KaS7xp_Av\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Crossing Broad (@crossingbroad)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I guess the argument to be made is what do you consider a Philly school? Some argue the Wildcats play in the Wells Fargo Center so they can be considered one. I argue that you have to be in the Philly city limits. St. Joes is half of a Philly school because part of campus is in Philly and the other is in Lower Merion.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Hart was asked a version of the same question and either he mis-heard it or didn&#8217;t understand what the reporter was saying because the answer doesn&#8217;t entirely make sense:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Villanova&#8217;s MBB account posted a highlight reel of Josh Hart, Jalen Brunson, and Donte DiVincenzo&#8217;s performances in the series. Hart is asked about it being received negatively by Philly fans:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s idiotic that Philly fans are mad about that&#8230;Villanova is in our blood&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nrqQKKMEfL\">pic.twitter.com\/nrqQKKMEfL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Knicks Videos (@sny_knicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sny_knicks\/status\/1783181431000145986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Villanova obviously uses their accounts as a recruiting tool. All Villanova basketball cares about is Villanova basketball and they should. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d tweet out the same thing tonight if Kyle Lowry scores 26 and wins the game for the Sixers. Most people were just upset after their favorite team lost. Now in my mind the Nova account could read the room better, but you gotta strike while the iron is hot on the Internet. Retweets and likes are currency in 2024. Still that tweet will now forever firmly plant the flag on Lancaster Ave as, &#8220;Not a Philly school.&#8221; in plenty of people&#8217;s minds.<\/p>\n<p>Not gonna lie it was a fun 24 hours of arguing. It&#8217;s always a good time to lob some dynamite into the social media waters and see how many fish you can catch. But all fun times have to come to an end. Sometimes the arguments takes such a left turn that you&#8217;re wondering how we even got here. Enter WIP:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Should the Sixers take down the Nova banners from the Wells Fargo Center before tomorrow night?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 94WIP Afternoons (@AfternoonsWIP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfternoonsWIP\/status\/1783223736289616342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yes. They shouldn&#8217;t be up there anyway. But they need to come down before tipoff tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1i7GCqfQ5T\">https:\/\/t.co\/1i7GCqfQ5T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliotShorrParks\/status\/1783224640355054032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shame on me for even breathing life into this, but even I think it would be insane to take the Nova banners down and I HATE Villanova. Nova has played enough games at the Wells Fargo Center to call it home. They&#8217;re also the most successful team to play in the arena. If we&#8217;re taking down Nova banners then we should&#8217;ve never raised the ones of a piano and guitar player from Knicks country:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-10.37.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-10.37.00-AM.png 480w, https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-10.37.00-AM-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>via Wells Fargo Center&#8217;s Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can guarantee the Wildcats have had more sellouts than the Boss and Billy Joel combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Brunson was asked about Sixers fans being upset with Villanova basketball&#8217;s Twitter post after a heartbreaking loss. Here&#8217;s what he said: &#8220;In their eyes, we&#8217;re not a Philly school. But when we win, apparently we&#8217;re a Philly school.&#8221; &#8211; Jalen Brunson on Villanova pic.twitter.com\/okVKWy9meO \u2014 Knicks Videos (@sny_knicks) April 24, 2024 Well to certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":177080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104,100],"tags":[7005,62492,2060,105,103],"class_list":["post-177077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sixers","category-villanova","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-josh-hart","tag-nba","tag-sixers-2","tag-villanova-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jalen Brunson: &quot;In Their Eyes [Villanova] Is Not a Philly School, But When We Win Apparently We Are&quot; - Crossing Broad<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2024\/04\/jalen-brunson-in-their-eyes-villanova-is-not-a-philly-school-but-when-we-win-apparently-we-are.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jalen Brunson: &quot;In Their Eyes [Villanova] Is Not a Philly School, But When We Win Apparently We Are&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jalen Brunson was asked about Sixers fans being upset with Villanova basketball&#8217;s Twitter post after a heartbreaking loss. 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