Daily News | Villanova stands atop college basketball’s summit. Delaware could do little but stare up. | Mike Sielski
said. “That’s a dunk for Jameer in the CAA. It just shows you how hard Villanova plays and how they compete. They battled to the last second. They weren’t going to let us get anything easy. That was a little bit of a game-changing play for them. It got the crowd into it. Whether he got fouled or not, that’s a different story.”
No, the bigger concerns were the toll that the Big East Tournament might have taken on his team and Delaware’s collective familiarity with the Wildcats, with their system and their players. The Blue Hens might lose, and they did. But Villanova wasn’t going to intimidate them. “As soon as we started appreciating it,” Delaware’s Kevin Anderson said, “they started hitting threes.”
There was a shift in the sport at the time, a new paradigm for building a program. Villanova is 27-7, a victory away – if it can beat seventh-seeded Ohio State on Sunday – from its sixth Sweet 16 appearance under Wright and its fourth in seven years. The sport hasn’t shifted back.
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