A native of Pittsburgh, Dom Cosentino still fondly remembers being nine years old and watching the CBS broadcast of Pitt’s infamous 1985 blowout of Villanova at Fitzgerald Field House, which happened just three weeks before the Wildcats improbably turned things around to win the NCAA Championship. But Dom has lived in Philadelphia long enough to get it. He gets how cool it feels to be inside the Palestra, gets the awesomeness of having six Division I schools in just one city, gets the history, the traditions, the rivalries, the personalities. He wound up in Philly at the suggestion of a teacher at his high school, a guy who had gone to college with the one and only Lionel Simmons. Dom thought that was cool, and that’s pretty much been that: He applied to La Salle, got accepted, and even though his arrival at 20th and Olney coincided with the start of a decade-plus string of losing seasons for the Explorers, he never really left Philly. Dom has worked for several years covering sports (and some news) for The Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer of Doylestown. Prior to that, he covered news, politics and criminal courts for The Times Herald of Norristown. Dom’s writing has also been published in Philadelphia City Paper, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Metro Philadelphia, and Deadspin. He has even done play-by-play of high school football games for 6abc.com, the website for Philly’s ABC-TV affilliate, WPVI Channel 6. Dom decided to start BIG FIVE POST at the urging of a friend, not long after a conversation in a bar about the Big Five’s history — its players, its coaches, its teams, its great games – continued long after last call, as such conversations often tend to do. A member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, he lives in the Philly suburbs.