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Where does the Big East pop up in pop culture?

SJU - Coming to America



SJU - Everybody Loves Raymond



Georgetown - Exorcist



Providence - Something About Mary



Marquette - Tommy Boy

Doesn't really count, but obviously Hinkle was used for Hoosiers.

If you guys are already tired of hearing about it, imagine how we feel.

Clooney shot a lot of "Ides of March" on Xavier's campus.



I don't know why Leo is weaing this lol

XAVIER

WE ARE MARSHALL

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758794/

If you're old enough, you may recall this tragedy:

Storyline

In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancée of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971?

Marshall's first victory? It came against Xavier University. As was the case with a number of schools, the Xavier community at that time pitched in to provide support for the Marshall community. That was a brutal night. Marshall's charter flight smashed into the hills on approach to Huntington's airport in a fiery crash.

A true tidbit: Bobby Bowden was the HC at WVU at that time. Lengyel had the balls to go to Morgantown to ask him for input on WVU's offense scheme (i.e. the veer). Bowden was fully accommodating, and it is featured in the movie.


THE IDES OF MARCH

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124035/

Clooney's father was a news broadcaster in Cincinnati. Rosemary Clooney was his aunt, btw. George shot this movie in Cincinnati with Xavier's campus being featured towards the end of the movie, particularly with the movie's closing scene that involved Clooney in Schmidt Hall while Ryan Gosling's character is stabbing him in the back (politically) during an interview on the floor of the Cintas Center.

George is a Xavier fan, btw:

DudeAnon wrote:Clooney shot a lot of "Ides of March" on Xavier's campus.



I don't know why Leo is weaing this lol

True story: he asked Clooney to pick one up for him while Clooney was in Cincinnati filming Ides.

In the movie "Honeymoon In Vegas", one of the guys mentions having a bet on the Villanova-Georgetown game. Also in The Sopranos, Big Pussy's kids all go to Villanova, they mention the school about 3 times, and in one scene, one of his sons is wearing a Villanova shirt at the batting cages with AJ.

Maria Bello went to Villanova, and Bradley Cooper went to Villanova for a year before transferring to Georgetown. His father went to Villanova, and he is a Philly guy, so he openly roots for Villanova even when they are playing Georgetown.

There are more like the kid Vincent Piazza who was in Boardwalk Empire and Jersey Boys went to Villanova for a year. Leo Rossi, who might be most well-known for that scene in "The Accused" with Jodi Foster . Jon Polito who has done a lot of work with the Coen Brothers. AND OF COURSE, everybody's favorite action hero, HOWIE LONG!

milksteak wrote:Doesn't really count, but obviously Hinkle was used for Hoosiers.

If you guys are already tired of hearing about it, imagine how we feel.

Doesn't count? Are you kidding? That is one of the best things ever!!!!!!! I can't wait to make it to Hinkle one of these days and yell out "HICKORY!" It is going to be glorious!

I was thinking more of on screen than off screen. Like the examples above.

In The Sopranos (obviously), Tony Soprano went to and subsequently dropped out of Seton Hall.

No idea why I remember this but an episode of Wings:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0749274/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

Joe is torn, on one hand he promised to take care of Helen, who is gonna be laid up for the night after visiting the dentist. And on the hand he's missing the biggest College Basketball game of the year, when Providence plays Boston College. Joe soon finds out Helen's TV is in the shop, so he bundles up unconscious Helen and takes her to his house and the party. She wanders off and everyone except Roy has to go looking for her.