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Fantasy Tournament Game One -- Team Severance vs. Team Kraft

By Ed Donohue

While we all await Barney Rubble ‘87’s first book on the history of Villanova basketball, he's come up with an idea to keep us busy over the waning days of the summer -- a fantasy tournament among teams comprised of the greatest Wildcats to play under each of Villanova’s past five coaches. Using VUHoops reader polling, we will determine the hypothetical winner of a 10-game fantasy tournament, with each team playing the other four teams once. The team with the best overall record will be crowned the tournament winner (head-to-head match-up result will be used in the event of a tie-breaker).

Barney's teams rosters are provided below with their Villanova career statistics (statistics not available are annotated with an "*"). In selecting his five teams, Barney selected the players based solely on their college careers, took some liberties with positions and assigned players who overlapped coaches to the coach they played for in their senior year.

Our first fantasy game matches Team Severance vs. Team Kraft.  I am looking forward to watching Squeaky Sneakers, oldtimer, oldtimer2 and Nervous Nelly go at it.  Let the debate begin!

TEAM SEVERANCE (1936-61)

Player Pos Grad Ht PPG RPG APG SPG BPG
Joe Lord PG 1947 5-10 15.8 * * * *
J. Huggard PG 1961 5-11 15.8 * * * *
L. Hennessy SG 1953 6-4 23.2 * * * *
Bob Schafer SG 1955 6-2 18.9 5.8 * * *
Paul Arizin SF 1950 6-4 20.1 * * * *
Jack Devine SF 1955 6-3 11.1 10.5 * * *
George Raveling F 1960 * * 11.1 * * *

Note from Barney:  I added George Raveling for height to compensate for this Lilliputian team.  This team might score 110 points per game in its day, with Jim Huggard getting 35 assists per game.

TEAM KRAFT (1961-73)

Player Pos Grad Ht PPG RPG APG SPG BPG
Wali Jones PG 1964 6-2 16.8 * 2.7 * *
Bill Melchionni PG 1966 6-1 19.2 * * * *
Tom Ingelsby PG 1973 6-3 18.6 * 3.2 * *
Hubie White SG 1962 6-3 20.6 9.7 * * *
Johnny Jones SG 1969 6-3 19.6 8.7 * * *
Chris Ford SG 1972 6-5 15.7 * 5.5 * *
H. Siemiontkowski SF 1972 6-5 13.6 8.2 * * *
J. Washington F/C 1965 6-7 13.5 14.0 * * *
Howard Porter F/C 1971 6-8 22.8 14.8 * * *

Note from Barney:  The athleticism of this group is amazing!

TEAM MASSIMINO (1973-92)

Player Pos Grad Ht PPG RPG APG SPG BPG
Rory Sparrow PG 1980 6-2 9.5 * 4.0 * *
Stuart Granger PG 1983 6-3 10.5 * 4.8 1.4 *
Kenny Wilson PG 1989 5-11 10.1 * 4.6 1.1 *
Keith Herron SF 1978 6-6 18.5 * * * *
Doug West SF 1989 6-7 14.8 4.6 1.9 0.9 0.4
Alex Bradley F 1981 6-6 14.7 7.2 * * *
Ed Pinckney F 1985 6-9 14.5 8.6 1.8 1.5 2.0
Harold Pressley F 1986 6-7 11.6 7.5 2.2 1.6 1.1
John Pinone F/C 1983 6-8 16.1 6.6 1.8 0.9 *

Note from Barney:  The extra ball handler helps balance this big NBA front line.

TEAM LAPPAS (1992-2001)

Player Pos Grad Ht PPG RPG APG SPG BPG
Alvin Williams PG 1997 6-5 10.9 * 4.2 1.5 *
Kerry Kittles SG 1996 6-5 18.4 5.9 3.3 2.3 *
John Celestine SG 1999 6-3 12.0 3.3 4.3 1.5 0.3
Tim Thomas F 1997 6-10 16.9 6.0 2.1 1.8 1.0
Jason L. Lawson F/C 1997 6-11 11.9 6.9 * * 2.9
Malik Allen F/C 2000 6-10 8.9 5.7 0.8 0.6 1.5
Michael Bradley F/C 2001 6-10 20.8 9.8 2.6 0.9 1.8

Note from Barney:  I added Celestine as a ball handler among all these big men, including their 6'5 PG.

TEAM WRIGHT (2001-present)

Player Pos Grad Ht PPG RPG APG SPG BPG
Kyle Lowry PG 2006 6-0 9.3 3.8 3.0 1.9 0.1
Scottie Reynolds PG 2010 6-2 16.0 2.9 3.5 1.5 0.1
Gary Buchanan SG 2003 6-3 14.7 3.8 2.6 1.3 0.2
Allan Ray SG 2006 6-2 15.6 3.2 1.9 1.1 0.1
Randy Foye SG 2006 6-4 15.0 4.8 3.2 1.5 0.4
Curtis Sumpter F 2007 6-7 13.3 6.4 0.9 0.9 0.8
D. Cunningham F 2009 6-8 9.6 5.9 1.0 1.2 0.8

Note from Barney:  And why wouldn't Jay Wright have 3 guards starting since that is how he recruited and played this decade?

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