Is a Final Four rematch without the best 7 or so players from the game really a rematch? Is it the programs we cheer for or the players? That and more on existential crisis basketball hour.
As for the game at hand, Villanova comes into Allen Fieldhouse off a loss at Penn, but after an understandable loss to Michigan and inexplicable loss to Furman, they have righted the ship for the most part. Offensively, they’ve taken the philosophy that “threes open things up for twos” to the extreme, taking 52 percent of their shots from deep. 52 percent!