Daily News | Villanova, always looking for an edge, found it in the off-season
From the outside, you can try to guess. Players returning, players lost. What will it look like for the next season? Even from the inside, it can be more of a guess than you’d think. Could Villanova’s 2022-23 team be as good as last season’s version with the second- and third-leading scorers gone? Villanova’s coaches wondered.
“That’s the baseline — everyone does work hard,” Dillon said. “But then what’s your edge? What else are you putting into it?”Villanova, now 29-6 — up from 24-9 last season — is into the second round of the NCAA Tournament, hosting Florida Gulf Coast Monday night . Another hinge point where Siegrist’s words come into play, where better could mean into the Sweet 16, after a second-round NCAA exit last season.
When Siegrist broke Villanova’s all-time scoring record, Matt Fraschilla, now a Harvard men’s assistant coach, put up a tweet congratulating her. Fraschilla had been a video coordinator on Jay Wright’s ‘Nova staff the previous three years, a graduate manager before that. Fraschilla noted: “Our offices shared a wall with the women’s practice gym … and I swear anytime I was in the office late and a ball was bouncing, we all knew when we looked, it would be Maddy getting shots up. She’s earned it.
“I’m thinking — we just went three games in a row,” Dillon said. “I just said, ‘Bell, fantastic, but, you know, just get some reps in, don’t push it.’”“I wasn’t really proud of how I played at the Big East just in general,” Runyan said of what was going on there. “My defense was there like it’s always going to be. But I feel like I took it a little personal, that I could have contributed a lot more. I definitely slept in and got the rest that I needed. I know how to recover.
“Them wanting more, just wanting to be better,” Dillon said of what she has seen from this group. “When a team makes a decision to be good, and then climb into the ranks of great — as coaches, you’re guiding them along and demanding that excellence. They thrive off it. ... It starts with conversations with individual players.
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