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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 5112819, member: 10"] [HEADING=1][SIZE=5][I]Time is likely up for Kyle Neptune at [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/NOVA/villanova-wildcats/']Villanova[/URL] [/I][/SIZE][/HEADING] [I]No team has plunged at KenPom through the first four days of the season like Villanova. The Wildcats, who were inexplicably ranked 20th at KenPom to start the week, now sit at 59th after their [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/columbia-upsets-villanova-as-critical-third-season-for-kyle-neptune-begins-in-embarrassing-fashion/']embarrassing 90-80 home loss[/URL] to [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/CLMB/columbia-lions/']Columbia[/URL] on Wednesday. It's the latest bad loss for Nova under Neptune, joining the likes in previous years against [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/PORT/portland-pilots/']Portland[/URL], a bad [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/TEMPLE/temple-owls/']Temple[/URL] team, a road defeat to lowly [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/DEPAUL/depaul-blue-demons/']DePaul[/URL], plus [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/PENN/pennsylvania-quakers/']Penn[/URL], Saint Joe's and [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/DREXEL/drexel-dragons/']Drexel[/URL]. Neptune is merely 36-34 after inheriting a blue blood program that was operating at a top-five level. Now it's losing games to mid-majors with regularity and the fan base is in despair. The fall-off has been unbelievable. (Making matters more dire: Mark Jackson, the AD who hired Neptune, left for [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/NWEST/northwestern-wildcats/']Northwestern[/URL].) Nova is in danger of slipping into purgatory, which would be a devastating development after its ascendence in the 2010s. A massive game at a good Saint Joe's team awaits next Tuesday. Neptune can't afford one more loss to a mid-major team. Whether there's an in-season change remains a different deal. Jay Wright endorsed Neptune for the job — and Wright is still around the program — so it's conceivable that he'll keep his post until season's end, but it feels like this experiment is over. [/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/dribble-handoff-kentucky-looks-impressive-and-other-overreactions-to-college-basketballs-opening-week/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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