I’m not going to lie, my heart dropped on Sunday morning when I started to see the projections. More than a few Bracketologists had Villanova facing that tiny school from the West Coast in the round of 64.
And then it actually happened a little after 6pm on Sunday evening. The Villanova Wildcats vs. St. Mary’s Gaels, in Hartford, Connecticut.
It’s basically 2010 all over again. Hartford and Providence are separted by less than 90 miles. Villanova fans will be out in full force. St. Mary’s has to make a cross-country trip. One team comes with power-conference cache and star power, the other a sum-of-its-parts group adored by the metrics, capable of knocking off Goliath.