“I’ve never been somewhere with so much energy at once”. We take 30 threes a game, or more, but the defensive rules are totally different in terms of illegal defense. “I’m always the one with the ball”.
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Under any other circumstance, the double-clutch, awkward, out-of-position prayer that Paige had answered would have gone down as one of the greatest shots in NCAA history. The previous time the school won the national title was in 1985 when it beat Georgetown University.
“Just for the hell of it, let’s do it”, he exhorted to almost 2,000 fans. We forget sometimes that college basketball players, for the most part, are still young.
The difference between winning and losing was so small.
On Monday night, he fell just short of an even bigger crown as a sophomore starter for North Carolina.
Villanova players celebrate after the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game against North Carolina, Monday, April 4, 2016, in Houston.
“When he actually made that shot, the place exploded”, said Insalaco. He might as well have been watching paint dry, his reaction was so understated. But even as Carolina celebrated Paiges shot, Wright was calmly drawing up the play that is simply called Nova: Get the ball in Arcidiaconos hands and spread the floor. “If I could get a shot, I was going to shoot it”, said the Villanova captain. He simply turns around and walks toward his coaches and only then allows the smallest of smiles.
Villanova basketball star Kris Jenkins became an overnight sensation after sinking a three-point winning shot on Monday night to beat UNC and win the NCAA championship.
It’s so rare that we get true, at the horn buzzer-beaters – it’s the first one in a national title game since NC State in 1983 – and Jenkins’ shot came just after Paige’s off-balance 3-pointer to tie the game.
I hate to say this, but if I had been Williams I probably would have fallen into a fetal position and sobbed for a few minutes.
SEPTA added extra capacity to the Norristown High Speed Line and asked customers heading to the Villanova campus area to take the Market-Frankford Line to 69 Street Transportation Center, then transfer to the NHSL.
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Wright has taken that approach and transformed it to his coaching style with his players. Thereon, Wright rounded up his Wildcats, watched “One Shining Moment” atop a makeshift platform on the raised hardwood inside NRG Stadium and set out on celebrations to savor the moment before moving forward into parade planning, recruiting visits and all that a crowning accomplishment entails.
