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Say goodbye to tradition: Philadelphia’s Big 5 gets facelift

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Published 11:28 am

By DAN GELSTON
AP Sports Writer

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Big 5 is no more. Philadelphia’s famed basketball city series is undergoing big changes starting next season. Penn, La Salle, Temple, Saint Joseph’s and Villanova will be joined by Philly’s sixth Division I program, Drexel. Gone is round-robin play. Schools instead will be split into three-team pods with games played at on-campus arenas. The teams then will be seeded for a Dec. 2 tripleheader at the Wells Fargo Center that will crown the Big 5 champion.

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