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VILLANOVA, Pa. — A three-word tweet, and the decision was official: It was May 24, 2016, at 9:05 p.m. ET, when Josh Hart announced he was coming back to Villanova for his senior season rather than entering the NBA draft.
"ONE MORE YEAR!!" Hart wrote on Twitter, echoing the chants at the Wildcats' national championship parade six weeks earlier—and those words were retweeted more than 2,500 times and liked more than 4,000 times, and all seemed well with a program that had just won the NCAA tournament on an iconic buzzer-beater and seemed poised to contend again.