Daily News | Villanova, still the toughest team in the country, is headed to the Final Four | Mike Sielski
SAN ANTONIO — It’s the rare NCAA Tournament regional final that sounds, feels, and has the sense of a home game for one of the two teams. These elimination games are contested at neutral sites, or are supposed to be. Saturday night at AT&T Center did not sound that way, feel that way, have that sense.
The answer arrived Saturday. Villanova led by 11 with more than 11 minutes remaining in the game, then went more than six-and-a-half minutes without actually putting the ball through the hoop. Houston cut that lead to two. This place throbbed with noise. And out of a timeout, Collin Gillespie waved off his teammates, went one-on-one against his defender, and drilled a pull-up jump shot. It was the only shot from the field he made in the game. It was the only one he needed to make.
Again and again, Houston dared Villanova to give in, to crumble, and again and again, the Wildcats didn’t. This team does not have the top-end talent of Jay Wright’s 2018 national-championship team, or even of his 2016 national-championship team, and maybe it won’t be celebrating in the Superdome on the night of Monday, April 4.
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