But maybe there should be a little something said about North Carolina, too.
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Jenkins is the inbounder for Villanova, and he was watching North Carolina as he raced to catch up to the action. Villanova defeated North Car…
Hundreds of cheering fans are lining streets in downtown Philadelphia to celebrate Villanova’s NCAA championship.
Right after Villanova lost by 3 points to North Carolina State in the third round of the 2015 tournament, TV cameras captured Roxanne Chalifoux playing her piccolo as tears rolled down her cheeks.
“He just told me how happy he was for me and you know”.
Her friend Caitlin Duggan called the championship “the flawless ending, for our year to be their year”.
She moved Kris to SC but didn’t feel like it was the best situation for him. “I can still remember being a freshman and rushing the floor… when we beat Syracuse”. On behalf of his class, Dawson took partial credit for the team’s victory, saying, “We laid the groundwork”. But unlike the Tar Heels, it was not considered Final Four material by many sports fans outside of its Philadelphia campus.
A city yearning for a title from its disappointing big-bankroll professional teams – the Eagles, Phillies, 76ers and Flyers – will fete a bunch of amateurs who don’t even play within city limits.
Last year’s title game between the Duke Blue Devils and Wisconsin Badgers drew an average of 28.3 million viewers, which was the highest rating for an NCAA championship in 18 years.
It had been in Villanova’s pocket for at least the last decade, and the Wildcats had practiced it hundreds of times, including as recently as last Friday.
Since then, ‘Nova had consistently proven itself as a strong and capable team under coach Jay Wright.
“We are a city of champions again”. “That’s what I said to him when he was walking out”.
The Villanova Wildcats had the ideal counter punch to an already incredible game-tying bucket just seconds earlier by North Carolina’s Marcus Paige.
He explained how to coach kids to make shots like his clutch game-winner.
Dunleavy admitted that as the rest of the 70,000-plus fans in attendance went insane, he was trying to focus on all the possibilities as the final seconds wound down. Jenkins told the roaring crowd at City Hall.
Two huge buckets in the span of 4.7 seconds Monday night turned a back-and-forth, edge-of-your-seat national title game into something even better.
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But Wright also has an eye to the future for his two junior stars, which is why he said Wednesday he is “completely supportive” of the decisions of Hart and Jenkins to go through the NBA’s draft evaluation process to see where they stand with league scouts.
