NEW ORLEANS — The Villanova athletic department created sharp graphics last April for Jermaine Samuels and Collin Gillespie to blast on social media when they each announced they would be returning for a fifth-season.
The players, part of the same recruiting class in 2017, decided a week earlier that they would return to campus. It was big news — two starters remaining in the fold meant real title aspirations — and the program wanted to make it special.
So they told the players to wait until they finished the graphics, tweet them out at the same time — 7 p.m. on Tuesday April 12 — and watch the news go viral.
