The Las Vegas oddsmakers like Villanova in this matchup – largely, I suspect, because of the way they shut down a very good Kansas team in the South Regional championship game to reach the Final Four. The fact that the Jayhawks, 11-time defending Big 12 champions, beat Oklahoma twice twice during the regular season is yet another plus in the Villanova column.
Quite a few of the sports radio talk-show personalities I’ve listened to this week, as well as a good sum of the writers I’ve followed in the print and social media worlds, also appear to be slanting toward Villanova as the choice to move out of the national semifinals and face North Carolina in the winner-take-all national championship game on Monday.