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[QUOTE="NYCorange, post: 1728055, member: 4918"]
Even though we recruit the same geographic location, I'm not worried very much about losing kids to Villanova for 3 reasons.

#1. Jay Wright made a conscious decision about 5 years ago to stop going after the top rated kids (who he had a decent shot of getting), and instead go after the players he really liked who he knew would be hungry and play "the Villanova way". That's why he took Hart, Archie, Ennis, etc. when he could have taken other kids. We generally recruit higher rated kids than he goes after.

#2. The type of player we go after is different. He seems to go after a lot of shorter guards with elite ball-handling and good shooting. It also seems that a lot of his forwards have been wide-body types. We obviously look for taller /longer guards and forwards.

#3. They're still in the Big East and their national brand just doesn't match ours. Sure, this will help them in Philly, and maybe Baltimore, but we recruit the whole eastern seaboard north of Virginia.

tl;dr  we're just not going to clash over that many recruits, and when we do, we've still generally got an edge.
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