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HOUSTON — Jay Wright felt bad for Oklahoma. And not only because his Villanova team played just about perfect on Saturday night and delivered the worst beating in the history of the Final Four. It was a 95–51 win that was so comprehensively exacting and unmercifully destructive that it became boring. Even the theoretically lyrical part about it—Villanova’s breathtaking 71.