Daily News | Drexel becomes full Big 5 member as men’s tournament replaces round-robin
A Big 5 men’s basketball tournament, to be known as the Big 5 Classic, will include Drexel and start this coming season, as the format was unveiled Tuesday morning at the Wells Fargo Center, which will host next season’s final-round tripleheader on Dec. 2.
“I think the time has sort of come now,” La Salle men’s coach Fran Dunphy said of bringing in Drexel as a full partner. “It probably doesn’t happen if you didn’t move the program from where you took it over,” Spiker said he told Flint.Another part of this: So many of the Big 5 men’s programs have been struggling lately, they couldn’t claim much present-day Big 5 value that Drexel didn’t deserve to share going forward.The setup now will have two pods. One will have Temple, La Salle and Drexel. The other will be Penn, St. Joseph’s and Villanova.
Old-time purists will ask, why not play the final at the Palestra? There was a general consensus that splitting even a capacity tripleheader gate of 8,722 wouldn’t offer much revenue to the schools.
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