Daily News | Big 5 honors the basketball greats of past and present | Mike Jensen
Jean Scheuer, wife of late journalist Jack Scheuer, looks at locker room with a plaque in his honor the Big 5's 2021-22 awards banquet at The Palestra.A little crowd gathered in the Palestra’s Southeast corner, right outside Locker Room 4, and that’s the way it always was, any setting, pointed out a close friend of Jack Scheuer. Folks gravitated to this man. Just before the formal festivities of Monday’s Big 5 banquet began, a plaque was unveiled outside that locker room.
Locker Room 4 - that was Jack’s locker room for those pickup games. Wilt Chamberlain’s old locker room, too. But Jack’s for the Wednesday games. “Was anyone else allowed to use it?” said a man standing there in the corner, meaning the other pickup players. They were. A bunch had the combination to the room. Only Scheuer had a key to the building.That man in the corner asking that question, Villanova coach Jay Wright, also was familiar with that locker room. That’s where his team is usually assigned for Palestra games. Wright noted how his freshmen are invariably wide-eyed at the sparseness of the little room.
Then, Ray noted the specific date of his first Holy War game, Feb. 3, 2003. He first noted how many points Villanova scored, 75. Then Ray noted how many St. Joseph’s scored … 92. That was Jameer Nelson and Delonte West doing their thing, combining for 55 points. The Hawks had jumped to a 19-4 lead inside a packed Palestra.Given Villanova’s recent Big 5 dominance, those memories are artifacts of a different time.
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