Talk:Philadelphia Big 5

Other Cities
Do any other cities have anything like this? If so, they should be linked from this page. It would be cool if Chicago had it with the following 4-7 teams playing each other once a year and awarding a championship: DePaul, Loyola, UIC, Northwestern, [NIU, Chicago St., and Valpo).

I don't think so. That's why it's considered so unique here in Philly. Bus2Beezlebub (talk) 04:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Drexel included in Big 5?
Drexel isn't considered part of the big 5, they never will be. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.162.59.49 (talk) 03:46, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

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"No city in America has more D-I basketball teams."
I removed the sentence that said "No city in America has more D-I basketball teams" because it isn't accurate. Philadelphia has five within the city limits: Penn, La Salle, St. Joseph's, Temple, and Drexel. (Villanova is outside the city.) But New York City has seven within the city limits alone: Columbia, Fordham, LIU-Brooklyn, Manhattan, St. Francis, St. John's, and Wagner. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:59, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

No 2020–21 winner
Villanova's Senior Associate AD/Communications, Dean Kenefick, responded to a Wikipedia editor's inquiry about whether there was a 2020–21 Big 5 champion (Dean Kenefick <dean.kenefick@villanova.edu To:bigredpoolplaya@yahoo.com Sat, May 1 at 10:12 PM; "There was no official Big 5 champion for the 2020-21 season." Brian (talk) 05:19, 2 May 2021 (UTC)). The men's basketball teams finished with these records: SportsGuy789 (talk) 06:14, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * La Salle 1–1
 * Penn 0–0
 * Saint Joseph's 1–2
 * Temple 0–0
 * Villanova 1–0