Daily News | Villanova knows Houston presents all kinds of challenges in NCAA Elite Eight
SAN ANTONIO – It is easy for Villlanova fans, even the wider world of NCAA basketball fans, to maybe look at this current group of Wildcats as being on some relentless and inevitable ride of destiny, pulling into the NCAA Elite Eight, facing Houston Saturday night inside the AT&T Center. Next stop, New Orleans, Final Four.If a laboratory could design a squad that presents a high bar to get over for Villanova, the lab might just scrap the project and bring in the Houston Cougars.
“They don’t just run a play to get a shot,” Wright said. “They run a play to get a shot and have the people set up on the weak side for offensive rebounding position. Sometimes they have them matched up with favorable matchups to jump over those people.” KenPom.com, the analytical bible of the college game, does not care that Villanova is a No. 2 seed and Houston a No. 5. That site offers statistical odds for every game in Division I. For this one, the Cougars are given a 57% chance of winning, a significant edge even though the final score is predicted to be in the balance to the end … Houston 65, Villanova 63.
Houston lost to Wisconsin and Alabama and SMU, and twice to Memphis, before beating Memphis in the American Athletic Conference title game. They’ve yet to win by less than double digits in this NCAA Tournament, including Thursday against top South Region seed Arizona. Other games, advantages found in other ways. The Big East final, right after Gillespie buried two threes to get ahead of Creighton, Wright had his team clear out the whole right side of the Madison Square Garden court, to let Justin Moore go to work. He eventually got inside, taking his sweet time, his contested layup the last nail in the coffin.
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