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By AARON BRACY December 14, 2025 Big5Hoops.com PHILADELPHIA -- Gavin Griffiths was one of the top high school recruits in the country in 2023. Two years later, he was relegated to playing on the scout team. Griffiths struggled in his first collegiate season at Rutgers two seasons ago and then even more after transferring to Nebraska last season. But the Simsbury, … [Read more...] about Aaron Bracy’s Big 5 Column: Hard work helping Temple’s Gavin Griffiths finally feeling success

By AARON BRACY December 13, 2025 Big5Hoops.com VILLANOVA, Pa. -- Bryce Lindsay and Duke Brennan are giving Villanova an inside-outside combination that is giving opponents fits this season. The duo did it again on Saturday against Pitt, with each going for 24 points in an important 79-61 bounceback victory at Finneran Pavilion that came on the heels of Tuesday’s … [Read more...] about Aaron Bracy’s Big 5 Column: Duke Brennan and Bryce Lindsay give Villanova a formidable inside-outside duo

By AARON BRACY December 6, 2025 Big5Hoops.com PHILADELPHIA -- Ken Scheuer told Duke Brennan how proud his father, Jack, would have been to present the Jack Scheuer “VGH” (Very Good Hoops) Award to Villanova’s big man after he led the Wildcats to a dominating 90-63 victory over Penn in the Big 5 Classic Championship game. As I listened back to Brennan’s answer and … [Read more...] about Aaron Bracy’s Big 5 Column: Big 5 Classic again shows why the Big 5 is special. Let’s keep it that way.

By AARON BRACY December 3, 2025 Big5Hoops.com The third edition of the Big 5 Classic will tip off on Saturday at the Xfinity Mobile Arena, continuing a Philadelphia college basketball tradition that has me fondly reminiscing on this chilly weekday evening. I’m thinking about my pal Jack and the many evenings when it was cold outside but warm inside sitting next to … [Read more...] about Aaron Bracy’s Big 5 Column: “VGH” Award at Big 5 Classic Carries On Jack Scheuer’s Great Legacy

By AARON BRACY December 1, 2025 Big5Hoops.com VILLANOVA, Pa. – The building was quiet. Too quiet for a Big 5 game. Too quiet with a spot in the Big 5 Classic title game on the line. Villanova was trailing Temple in its own house here early in the second half. Maybe the home fans were having nightmares of the sixth-place finish in the first run of this format, or the … [Read more...] about Aaron Bracy’s Big 5 Column: Villanova guard Acaden Lewis turned up the noise and turned the game on two key possessions in Monday’s 74-56 win over Temple