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A Big East champion will be crowned Saturday evening when fourth-seeded Creighton takes on second-seeded Villanova in the conference title game.

This will be Villanova's 11th appearance in the Big East conference final. Saturday night's game will be the third meeting between Creighton and Villanova this year. Creighton comes into this game 22-10 on the season and 12-7 in conference play, good for the fourth seed. Creighton was lights out from the floor, shooting 52.6%. Four players scored in double figures. Or will an underdog come away with the crown for the second year in a row? At one point during the game, the Bluejays went on a 27-2 run.

Villanova (26-8) won its first title since 2019 and their fifth BIG EAST Tournament title since the realignment in 2014. Creighton (22-11) fell to 0-4 in BIG ...

And then we meet as a team and then make our plan, once we know who we're playing, we make our plan for the week. We trust in each other and have confidence in each other to make plays. Q. Collin, you've become the first player to win Scholar-Athlete, Big East Player and Tournament Most Outstanding Player in the same year. But we found a way and we've got to go back and we have work to do to prepare for those situations. And secondly, I want to say how blessed we all think we are to play here, be part of the Big East in Madison Square Garden. You guys were here, you watched it. I grabbed him on the way to the locker room and I said, you need to shoot that 100 out of 100 times. And in a couple of those plays, that was the case. We've got to lose ourselves in the process and hopefully we'll grow in that process that the results will come. They just trust me to be able to make some space and go get the ball, I guess. And from November 10th to March 10th, we're sitting here and it's a tied game with Villanova in the Big East championship team with a two and a half minutes to go. And this is our fourth time sitting up here talking to you after one of these losses in the championship game, and that's tough to swallow. And I hope we've got to the point where the Big East just isn't a Northeastern league.

The path to a 2 Seed in the East is there, Villanova just needs to take care of business and hope for some help.

Providence (16) UCLA (13) Illinois (14) Arkansas (15) Wisconsin (12) Kentucky (5)

SportsLine's model revealed its college basketball picks for Creighton vs. Villanova in the Big East Tournament 2022 championship game.

On the other end, Villanova is hyper-efficient, leading the Big East in offensive efficiency. Villanova is known for its offense, but the Wildcats are No. 2 in the Big East in defensive efficiency. Creighton? And which side of the spread hits more than 50 percent of the time? That ranks in the top 10 nationally, and Creighton is No. 4 in the country in free-throw rate allowed. Visit SportsLine now to find out which side of the spread you need to jump on, all from the model that has crushed its college basketball picks, and find out. The model also says one side of the spread hits more than 50 percent of the time. SportsLine's model is leaning over on the total, projecting the teams to combine for 140 points. The Wildcats are second-worst in the Big East with a block rate of only 8.7 percent. Villanova is No. 3 in the conference in turnover rate, forcing a giveaway on 18.4 percent of possessions, and the Wildcats are also near the top of the Big East in defensive rebound rate, free-throw rate allowed and 3-point defense. - Creighton vs. Jay Wright and the Villanova Wildcats aim for another Big East Tournament crown on Saturday evening. Here are several college basketball odds and trends for Villanova vs.

Guts and glory won it out for the Wildcats as both teams struggled to make shots.

Gillespie, the two-time Big East player of the year, 2021 and 2022, was named 2022 Big East tournament MVP. Johnson noted that Gillespie was the 2022 Big East tournament MVP. The Bluejays had put the worst loss in tournament history on a No. 1 seed when it beat Providence by 27 points in the semifinals. Gillespie, noting that he was tired, was good with Justin Moore taking the ball to start those plays. This was no classic, any part of this 2022 Big East championship game, with all the shooters, tired or not, both Big East finalists, Villanova and Creighton shooting exactly like it was their third game in three days. “It’s a unique mindset, and that’s what the great ones have.”

Get a recap of the Creighton Bluejays vs. Villanova Wildcats basketball game.

Villanova: The Wildcats are tournament-tough and played in their 11th Big East final. The Bluejays got going first when Alex O’Connell hit a 3 for a 41-39 lead and waved his arms to cheering fans down the court. The Wildcats went only 8 of 32. The two-time conference player of the year hit both and was soon mobbed by teammates at midcourt to kick off the championship party. The 2016 victory, of course, was one of the most famous title games ever when Jenkins hit a buzzer-beating 3 to win it. These were not the same Bluejays who outscored top-seeded Providence 31-2 in about 10 1/2 minutes during a 27-point rout a night earlier in the semifinals. The winner was going to come down to whichever team could make a few shots in succession after a dreary start to the game. O’Connell was the worst offender; he went 0 for 5. That percentage, any percentage above 0, would have given the Bluejays the lead at halftime. Or maybe it's just the Wildcat Way forged under coach Jay Wright of shaking off nerves, bad shots, a stifling defense, whatever distraction got in their way, to always hit that next big shot and win the next big game. Gillespie missed both postseason tournaments in 2021 with a torn ligament in his left knee. But we put it in his hands to make those plays.”