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No. 15 seed Delaware looks to shock No. 2 seed Villanova on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

The Wildcats finished the season as hot as anyone in the country after starting just 7-4 and losing their first conference game. They won three games in three days after ending the regular season on a three-game losing streak that included losses to UNC Wilmington and Towson, both teams they beat in the conference tournament. The win against the Bluejays was the Wildcats' fifth straight and 10th in their last 11 games.

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“Ever since I’ve been at the University of Delaware, Villanova has been the best program in college basketball,” Ingelsby said. This was a step-forward season for them, for Ingelsby as their coach: first conference-tournament championship, first NCAA Tournament berth, 22 victories, perhaps the seeds of sustained success planted. The outcome would be the outcome just the same, little more than a matter of time and Villanova playing as it usually does: hard and smart and so freaking tough. There was the six-minute stretch, from late in the first half to early in the second half, that broke the Blue Hens, a stretch they began down by four and in the game and ended down by 18 and out of hope. Then Delaware held a 15-8 lead eight-and-a-half minutes in, a wakeup for the Wildcats better than any warning Wright might have delivered. Soon enough, the lead was gone and, for the Blue Hens, the game, too. 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. There was Jermaine Samuels hurling himself onto the Villanova bench to save a loose ball, accidentally elbowing assistant coach Dwayne Anderson in the face, leaving Anderson bloodied from a gash in his nose. They battled to the last second. There were the four off-the-dribble three-pointers that Collin Gillespie hit, each born of a pro-level move that he had clearly spent hours … days … weeks … honing until he could shoot that shot in his sleep. So: Blue Hens up, 23-22, still riding the wave of their Colonial Athletic Association championship, feeling confident, Jameer Nelson Jr. off on what looks like an easy breakaway dunk and a three-point lead and maybe some nervousness on the Main Line … except Brandon Slater chases him down, re-introduces himself to Nelson at the rim, and blocks the dunk.

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They came in second place (to UConn) in the Big East Conference and also lost their conference tournament final, 70-40 in favor of UConn being the final score. A 6-seed is the program’s highest ever (was previously a 7). The Cougars’ last game was played on Mar. 8 in Las Vegas for the WCC tournament title. BYU ended the season as the WCC regular season champs, with a 26-3 record.

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Moore poured in 12 points in the first five minutes — including three 3-pointers — as the Wildcats' advantage quickly ballooned to 20 points. Guard Kevin Anderson made it a point to drink in the moment. “That’s not what we do here at Villanova,” Samuels said. “(We) put a little scare in them,” Delaware coach Martin Ingelsby said. Villanova will meet Ohio State in the second round of the South Region on Sunday. The No. 7-seeded Buckeyes downed Loyola Chicago 54-41 in the first of four games at PPG Paints Arena. The Wildcats, not so much.

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“All of the seniors that came back, we love this team and we obviously love college basketball. So I think it’s just the opportunity to keep playing with one another and keep playing college basketball. “It hasn’t been one or two players that totally dominate the ball or dominate everything. I think my players understand that a little bit, but they’re not going to put pressure on themselves to try to go out and do something great. Case in point by the seed they received in this NCAA Tournament. After a three-loss season, with two of those setbacks against single-digit NCAA Tournament teams, BYU only received a 6-seed and traveled two timezones away to Ann Arbor, Michigan. I love the underdog story, America loves the underdog story, so I’m excited to go in there and play like underdogs.” They’re just going to go out there and be themselves and play their game. I think what’s hard is in the West; we don’t get the recognition that a lot of players get. It’s the best seed in program history, but it shows that respect is not earned in the regular season. The respect from the nation is made in March. It’s one of the reasons why everyone from last year’s team that barely lost to national runner-up Arizona returned for another year. “All of the sacrifices that you make all summer and all during the year is to have the opportunity to be here. PROVO, Utah – BYU women’s basketball put together a season for the ages.

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“I think the only thing that I can really say is just to kind of stay calm and play our game,” she said. We can’t let them get outside of what we try to do best, and that’s where the key is.” It’ll be a challenge, and we’re excited for it.” Last year we went through this, and they’re excited to really get going and playing,” Judkins said. So it has to be the one-and-done mentality of rebounding the basketball.” They’re very deliberate and not incredibly quick in what they do, but we kind of try to play the same way, so I think it should be interesting to see that.” We haven’t played against many teams like that this year, so I’m super excited to be able to play kind of like ourselves in that aspect.” We’ve been watching a lot of film, and our coaches have a really good game plan for us.” And then the same thing, playing just like help the helper, crowd the paint, make sure they’re not getting easy layups, pretty much the same thing we’ve been doing all year.” I think a team that we play a lot that reminded me kind of BYU was Creighton,” she said. “Obviously they have the second leading scorer in the nation, so yeah, doing a lot of scout and defense to kind of break that down and stop different looks. I think we have three or four players that have had to guard somewhat players like this and they can match up and find out real quick.

The Wildcats are the No. 11 seed in the Wichita Regional, taking on the sixth-seeded Cougars.

The Wildcats’ young roster will look to slow down the game and feed Siegrist. But Siegrist isn’t the reason they beat then-No. 8 UConn in February or ended the season as one of the hottest teams in the country. Between No. 11 seed Villanova and its first tournament win since 2018 is No. 6 seed BYU, the regular-season West Coast Conference champion. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Getting into the NCAA Tournament wasn’t a sure thing for the Villanova women’s team.

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You want to do a really good job guarding the line and trying to take it away. We didn't do a good enough job to keep kind of us in the game.” The Wildcats have won 12 of those games. “I thought we did a really good job guarding for 25 seconds, and then they made some very timely threes,” Ingelsby said. Contact Kevin Tresolini at [email protected] and follow on Twitter @kevintresolini. Support local journalism by subscribing to delawareonline.com. And with 13 teams in the league next season because of expansion, more schools will have to play an extra tournament game, making finishing higher even more critical. “I think a lot of people are interested,” Ingelsby said. Naturally, it was Delaware’s defensive focus in preparation. “And then we had a couple breakdowns, and they make you pay. “[Connor] Gillespie makes a step-back one, [Caleb] Daniels had one that bounced in, hit the front of the rim and bounced in at the end of the first half. “I think we’re really just getting started here. New transfer rules allowing immediate eligibility has made movement between schools frequent.

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Moore poured in 12 points in the first five minutes — including three 3-pointers — as the Wildcats' advantage quickly ballooned to 20 points. Guard Kevin Anderson made it a point to drink in the moment. Delaware would not get within 16 the rest of the way. “(We) put a little scare in them,” Delaware coach Martin Ingelsby said. Villanova will meet Ohio State in the second round of the South Region on Sunday. The No. 7-seeded Buckeyes downed Loyola Chicago 54-41 in the first of four games at PPG Paints Arena. The Wildcats, not so much.

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- Kevin Anderson is averaging a team-high 3.6 assists per game. He also posts 0.4 steals and 1.0 block. - The Fightin' Blue Hens get 9.9 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game from Andrew Carr. - Dylan Painter is No. 1 on the Fightin' Blue Hens in rebounding (6.6 per game), and puts up 11.9 points and 1.8 assists. - The Fightin' Blue Hens put up 10.7 more points per game (73.8) than the Wildcats allow their opponents to score (63.1). - Jameer Nelson Jr. is the Fightin' Blue Hens' top scorer (13.7 points per game), and he produces 2.2 assists and 5.0 rebounds. - The Wildcats make 43.7% of their shots from the field this season, which is 0.9 percentage points higher than the Fightin' Blue Hens have allowed to their opponents (42.8%). - The Wildcats score just 2.7 more points per game (72.6) than the Fightin' Blue Hens give up (69.9). - The Fightin' Blue Hens have shot at a 46.9% rate from the field this season, 6.1 percentage points greater than the 40.8% shooting opponents of the Wildcats have averaged. - Justin Moore averages 15.0 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists per contest, shooting 39.9% from the field and 34.7% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game. How to Watch Villanova vs. How to Watch Delaware vs.

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Villanova took its first lead 20-19 with 7:39 on the clock on Caleb Daniels’ 3-pointer. "We have a competitive group of guys," Jyare Davis said, "and if we were playing the Golden State Warriors, I think everybody would believe in ourselves, believe in us winning. Contact Kevin Tresolini at [email protected] and follow on Twitter @kevintresolini. Support local journalism by subscribing to delawareonline.com. " … We knew what they were doing; we just couldn't guard it." "This group became very confident coming off what we did in D.C. [winning the CAA title]. They really believed they could compete on a big stage against Villanova." The 10th occurred Thursday night when Saint Peter’s stunned Kentucky 85-79 in overtime.