Villanova Basketball, Class of 2006 – the Best Recruiting Class you Never Heard of
Villanova Basketball is to my father like Georgia Football is to me. If he could trade all his other teams for the success of his small Catholic alma mater, he would. Luckily he doesn’t have to. As an alumnus, my dad experienced three Villanova national championships (’85, ’16, ’18) and unrivaled success in Big East and national competition. As they punch their ticket to their seventh Final Four appearance, fourth under the leadership of the best coach in NCAA history not named John Wooden, I think about where Nova was as I grew up. The guys used to laugh when I told them how good Villanova was. Very few of my friends even heard of them at that point, and even fewer believed they had a chance to become the juggernaut Jay Wright built. But I knew, maybe with a lot of optimism, but really I knew they would make it happen. The base for my belief was in the class of 2006 – Jason Fraser, Randy Foye, Allan Ray, and Curtis Sumpter – along with 2007 grad and current assistant Mike Nardi and