Villanova Men’s Basketball is begging people to come to tonight’s NIT Tournament game against VCU, rolls $2.00 light beer and hard seltzer promotion in a single concession area, until halftime only

Question: What happened to Villanova Men’s Basketball and why am I overjoyed to witness the program’s massive “fall from grace” while they enter NIT Tournament play tonight against VCU?

Glad you asked.

Tonight at Finneran Pavilion, Villanova is basically begging fans to come watch them roll around in the mud against VCU in the first round of NIT Tournament action by promoting what seems to be a a bunch of nothing disguised as a $2 Beer and Hard Seltzer offer.

Villanova Men’s Basketball: $2 Beer and Hard Seltzer Offer for NIT

#NovaNation – Cheer on the ‘Cats this Wednesday vs. VCU & enjoy a special $2 @NITMBB concessions offer ✌️🥨 🍿

Get your tickets today: https://t.co/6WyOkxHPZI #GoNova pic.twitter.com/n4UsxEvi8I

— Villanova MBB (@NovaMBB) March 18, 2024

I’m sure this will help get fans through the door. Nova Nation is probably beating down the doors already to go see their once prestigious basketball team play VCU in the NIT tonight.

This concessions offer will have students and fans lined up outside of Finneran Pavilion, right?

I doubt it but I guess there’s nothing else going on in the Philadelphia suburbs on a random Wednesday night at the end of March so maybe they have a chance in tricking fans into thinking it’s $2 beer and hard seltzer night at the NIT Tournament.

Honestly, I never thought I’d see the day the Main Line darlings, Villanova put down their fancy bottles of wine, charcuterie boards, and beer garden IPA’s for the $2 light beer and hard seltzer promotion route but I guess that’s what happens when you are now in the NIT mud for the second-straight season after appearing in March Madness’ Big Dance Final 4 just three years ago. 

Not to mention, that fine print at the bottom of the promotion states that the $2 “Mud Promotion” is only available in the “Fitzgerald Main Concession Area and the 207 Concession Area” and “only available until the end of halftime”? 

Nova is always going to Nova, I guess. That’s pretty weak.

I would never be caught dead at a Nova game regardless but it looks like the Fitzgerald Club is exclusively tied to select lower-level seating, so everyone else is going to be jam-packed into the 207 concession area looking to score what will likely be, given the crowds, a single $2.00 Miller Lite before returning to their seats to watch NIT action. 

Sounds miserable, right? 

Listen, I don’t mean to dunk all over Villanova (I actually do) but you have to understand I’m a graduate of West Virginia University so I was born into early 2000-2010 Big East basketball.

WVU as a whole, once had an athletic program that would go nose-to-nose with Villanova in basketball while winning multiple BCS Bowl Games with Pat White under center in football.. 

Now? I’m not even sure WVU has any type of athletic programs left outside of men’s baseball.

Wait a second, did WVU basketball even suit up this year…?

4-14 overall in the Big 12 Conference. 9-23 overall. 2-6 against Top 25 teams. Ended the season losing six-straight games. Finished last in the Big 12. 

Love that. (Endless Pain)

I guess that’s what happens when you turn your back on legendary coach Bob Huggins because he had a few “driving around beers” before the season in Pittsburgh, but that’s a story for another day. 

Luckily, when you’re born a Philadelphia sports fan and ascend into being a West Virginia University sports fan, my brain was constructed in the mud and I have learned to deal with heartbreak by hollowing out my cold, dead heart and accepting all the pain and disappointment head-on. 

Point being, Villanova always walked around with their noses up and looked down on everyone else in the Big East all while claiming they were a school from Philadelphia. Hell, I even cringed at the fact that I had to put this post under the “Philly” category because it didn’t really fit anywhere else on the website. I never bought it. I will never buy it. It’s like calling West Chester University a “Philly School” – not even close.

So yes, if you haven’t picked up on it already, I’m overjoyed that Villanova is a shell of what they used to be, playing in the NIT Tournament, offering $2 light beer and hard seltzer promotions, pretending it’s some type of “cool promotion” when it only lasts until halftime and is available at a single concourse inside Finneran Pavilion unless you have “select lower-level seating.”

This is the type of filth I was born in and the fact that “Main Line Nova” is now in the mud brings nothing but joy to my cold, dead heart. 

Cheers. Go VCU. 

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