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Temple, LaSalle, St. Josephs, Villanova, and Penn have placed teams in the NCAA post-season tournament for 16 straight years. No other city, not even Los Angeles, can claim that distinction...
...Five has also had its share of national battles. LaSalle and Tom Gola led the Big Five to a national championship in 1954, and Villanova broke the Atlantic Coast Conference's dominance on the Eastern regional, and wound up finishing second to UCLA...
...Five can and has placed three teams in the tourney in the last three years. The winner from the Middle Atlantic Conference (almost always LaSalle, St. Josephs or Temple), the Ivy League Champ (Penn, of course), and the one eastern independent selection, (usually Villanova) go into the post season action...
...center Joe Newman, and hot-shooting shrimps from local high schools Ricky Trudeau, John Kneib and Kevin Washington. They also have the fortune of playing in the Palestra. Everyone within a 200-mile radius of Philly knows that the only time a Big Five team (Temple, Villanova, LaSalle, St. Joseph's and Penn) drops one in the Palestra, it's only to a rival Philadelphia team...
John Harnett, an Irish transplant to Villanova, blazed to the individual championship in the record time of 24:00, which eclipsed the old record by three seconds. Hartnett placed third in last year's meet...