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For the second time in the last three years, the Villanova Wildcats are national champions. Nova’s men’s basketball team defeated Michigan in Monday night’s title game by a final score of 79 to 62.
The Philadelphia Eagles, who also won a championship this year (ICMYI), and their players took to Twitter to congratulate their suburban neighbors.
V for victory.
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) April 3, 2018
Congrats to the National Champions, @NovaMBB! #LetsMarchNova pic.twitter.com/gVtKzFjdA6
Another for Philly! #NationalChampionship pic.twitter.com/CMiyp1yovl
— Lane Johnson (@Lanejohnson65) April 3, 2018
Divincenzo... LETS GOOOO!!!
— Zach Ertz (@ZERTZ_86) April 3, 2018
Divencenzo pic.twitter.com/Hk81jPJezc
— Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) April 3, 2018
Philly‼️‼️‼️‼️
— Nelson Agholor (@nelsonagholor) April 3, 2018
Watching @NovaMBB do work pic.twitter.com/hBjHVWCjfh
— Brandon Brooks (@bbrooks_79) April 3, 2018
Congrats @NovaMBB
— Sidney Jones IV (@SidneyJonesIV) April 3, 2018
City of Champions #PhillyPhilly
— Jake Elliott (@jake_elliott22) April 3, 2018
Major S/O to Villanova!! Philly stand UP!! 1st the SuperBowl now NCAA champions is say it's a great start to the year for sports in Philly!!!
— Kenjon Barner (@KBDeuce4) April 3, 2018
Jim Nantz said what we were all thinking....Philadelphia has become “a city of champions”. I think we can safely say that this Villanova team is the greatest college basketball team in our area’s history. They absolutely ran away with this tournament!!!
— Merrill Reese (@mreeseeagles) April 3, 2018
Believe it or not, Philadelphia is actually the first city to feature both the Super Bowl champions and the NCAA Division I men’s basketball champions in the same year. (Here’s your prompt to argue about the status of Nova as a Philly school.)
Another interesting twist to these championship wins is they both came over the University of Michigan.
Philadelphia 2-0 vs. University of Michigan this year pic.twitter.com/wrtIrmO5k4
— Brandon Lee Gowton (@BrandonGowton) April 3, 2018
Yes, I obviously know that the guy sacking Tom Brady in that picture, Brandon Graham, also attended college at Ann Arbor. But I wasn’t NOT going to use that picture. And it’s just a dumb joke, so relax and be quiet already.
In addition to the Eagles and Wildcats, the Philadelphia Soul (Arena Football League) also won a championship within the past year. In fact, they actually repeated as ArenaBowl champs.
So it’s official: Philly is the new Title Town.
You’re up next, Sixers.
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