Daily News | Subdued atmosphere for Palestra doubleheader shows the Big 5 isn’t what it once was
There is the Philadelphia Big 5 as it used to be, and there is the Philadelphia Big 5 as it is. Wednesday night at The Palestra, a doubleheader of La Salle vs. Temple and Penn vs. St. Joseph’s, was an attempt to recapture the former. It ran into the reality of the latter.
There was no energy in the place: no chants, no banners, no bands, no streamers, no sense that this game meant anything more than any other game on either team’s schedule. It filled up a bit more for Penn-St. Joe’s, but it was never close to full. “Since I played,” said Temple head coach Aaron McKie, who scored 1,650 points during his career with the Owls from 1991-94, “the landscape of college basketball has changed.”
Time was, more students at city schools lived in the homes where they had grown up, and those kids thought nothing of taking bus or subway rides to The Palestra, because they took bus or subway rides to class every day.
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