Fate rewards Reynolds with rookie honors

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, March, 2007 | by DANA PENNETT O'NEIL

Asked to explain the circuitous and fortuitous route that Scottie Reynolds traveled to Villanova, Jay Wright described a mix of luck, good fortune and irony.

Reynolds' father, Rick, prefers to look a little higher.

"I think," a gleeful Rick Reynolds said as he boarded a train for New York and the Big East Tournament last night, "it's providence."

That's not much of a stretch.

An infant who arrived in Rick and Pam Reynolds' home as a foster child and became the sweetheart of his adoptive parents, the basketball cult hero of his hometown of Herndon, Va., a McDonald's All-America, a hoops player abandoned by his soon-to-be college coach, a wayward prodigy who landed in Wright's lap after his other point guard took off to the NBA 2 years early, and the...