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The University of Michigan men's basketball team, who earned a No. 11 seed for the NCAA Tournament, continues its NCAA postseason against No.

• Graduate Jermaine Samuels adds 10.7 points and a team-best 6.4 rebounds per game, while redshirt senior Caleb Daniels gives the Wildcats four in double figures with 10.3 points per night. He adds a 90.2 percent average from the free throw line (101-for-112) and 3.8 rebounds per game. The Wildcat duo of Gillespie (559) and Moore (509) have both surpassed 500-plus points this season. • With a victory on Thursday against Villanova, Michigan would advance to the Elite Eight for a second straight year -- 2021 vs. • Villanova averages 72.8 points, 34.8 rebounds and 12.1 assists per game. • Eli Brooks is averaging 19.5 points per game and shooting 51.9 percent from the field. • Hunter Dickinson leads U-M with 24.0 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. In a near repeat against Tennessee (March 19), U-M rallied in the second half, shooting 50 percent and outscoring the Volunteers, 44-31, to win by eight. • Since Juwan Howard was hired three years ago, he has five NCAA Tournament wins -- the most among Big Ten coaches. He knocked down three triples against the Volunteers. Additionally, he is 13-for-15 (86.7 percent) from the free throw line. Jones returned for the Tennessee game, but Collins was called on for the second half as Jones was ruled out for the second half due to symptoms. The last Wolverine to earn a double-double was Iggy Brazdeikis (17 points, 13 rebounds) against Texas Tech (March 28, 2019).

In Thursday's NCAA Tournament matchup, Michigan will face a Villanova team that is talented, experienced, and battle tested. What, did you expect the games ...

The Wildcats will try to hold up defensively while spacing the floor with a bunch of shooters at the other end. Villanova is very experienced, especially compared to Michigan. The six Wildcats who played serious minutes against Ohio State included two fifth-years, two seniors, a junior, and a sophomore. As hinted at in the previous paragraph, Villanova is not particularly deep. Neither is Michigan. In fact, they rank at 316 and 317 in the country in bench minutes (per kenpom). And both coaches prefer to sit players who have two first-half fouls. The Wildcats, who reached the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA Tournament before losing to eventual champion Baylor, entered this year’s event at sixth in the final AP poll. Like Michigan’s Eli Brooks, Gillespie took advantage of the NCAA’s COVID-19 waiver to return for a fifth season.

The Sweet 16 matchup and rematch between the 2018 national championship teams now has a tip time and channel.

The Wolverines are 28th nationally, with the 19th-ranked offense and 78th defense. CBS announced the next round of matchups while some games are still in progress, but noted the tip time and channel for the highly anticipated matchup. The national championship game rematch is officially set, as 11-seed Michigan upended 3-seed Tennessee, while 2-seed Villanova took down 6-seed Ohio State in the Round of 32.

Juwan Howard and the Michigan Wolverines are 2-0 in the 2022 NCAA Tournament up to this point, taking down both Colorado State and Tennessee during the ...

They were the underdog against Tennessee by 6.5-7 points, depending on where you looked, and they won the game by eight points. According to DraftKings Sportsbook, the Wolverines are 4.5-point underdogs against the Wildcats, with the over/under set at 135.5. They were about a one- or two-point favorite heading into the matchup with CSU and beat them by 12.

Michigan vs Villanova prediction, NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might - or might not - win on Thursday.

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A rematch of the 2018 men's basketball national championship will take place in the same city. Michigan and Villanova will meet in San Antonio in the NCAA ...

Michigan and Villanova will meet in San Antonio in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 on Thursday (March 24). The Wolverines, an 11 seed, are playing in their fifth straight Sweet 16 after beating 6 seed Colorado State 75-63 on Thursday and 3 seed Tennessee 76-68 on Saturday night. Villanova (28-7) and Michigan (19-14) have four common opponents this season, including their latest NCAA Tournament victims: Ohio State (Michigan split its regular-season series); Tennessee (Villanova clobbered the Volunteers in November); Seton Hall (Villanova swept and Michigan lost at home); and Purdue (Villanova lost on a neutral court; Michigan split).

Michigan basketball will face Villanova in the early game on TBS on Thursday in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament in San Antonio, Texcas.

9:30 p.m. Friday: East — No. 4 UCLA vs. 7:15 p.m. Friday: Midwest — No. 1 Kansas vs. 9:45 p.m. Friday: Midwest — No. 10 Miami (Fla.) vs. 7 p.m. Friday: East — No. 15 Saint Peter’s vs. 9:30 p.m. Thursday: West — No. 2 Duke vs. 9:45 p.m. Thursday: South — No. 5 Houston vs. 7 p.m. Thursday: West — No. 1 Gonzaga vs. Eli Brooks is the lone Wolverine from that squad still with Michigan; he went scoreless with a rebound in three minutes. The Wolverines’ two wins came during the regular season in December 1970 and November 2018, however. (Current ’Nova players Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree also played four minutes for the Wildcats in the 2018 title game, while Jermaine Samuels was on the roster, but didn’t play against the Wolverines.) Michigan and Villanova have faced each other five times, with U-M going 2-3. Interestingly, two of the current teams’ stars played in that game.

The No. 3-seeded University of Michigan women's basketball team (23-6) will look for its second straight NCAA Sweet 16 berth on Monday (March 21) when it ...

Nova features three double-figure scorers in Maddy Siegrist (25.8 ppg, 9.4 rpg), Lior Garzon (13.2 ppg) and Brianna Herlihy (10.7 ppg, 8.3 rpg). Michigan is 2-0 all-time against Villanova, with the previous two matchups also happening in the postseason. The Wildcats are averaging 65.4 points per game on 40.4 percent shooting while allowing 60.8 points per game on 41.2 percent shooting. • Michigan and Villanova are squaring off for the third time, with the previous two meetings also occurring in the postseason. The Wolverines are second in combined team rebounds, grabbing 40.3 caroms per contest. U-M leads the conference in combined opponent rebounds, giving up just 30.2 per game. • Naz Hillmon is up to 1,031 career rebounds, setting a new program record for rebounds. Michigan is looking for its first-ever undefeated season at home. The Wolverines have gone 21-4 when winning the battle on the glass and are one of eight teams nationally to have a rebound margin in positive double digits. • U-M is 15-0 at home this season, outscoring opponents by more than 20 points per game (77.0 ppg to 56.8 ppg). U-M has three players in double-figure scoring at home in Naz Hillmon (24.3 ppg, up from her season average of 21.1 ppg), Leigha Brown (13.8 ppg on 50.0 percent shooting) and Emily Kiser (10.1 ppg, up from her season average of 9.8 ppg). U-M is shooting 49.7 percent from the floor as a team at Crisler, and the defense has been stingy at home, allowing just 56.8 points per game on 36.4 percent shooting. ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 3-seeded University of Michigan women's basketball team (23-6) will look for its second straight NCAA Sweet 16 berth on Monday (March 21) when it hosts No. 11 seed Villanova (24-8) in a second-round game at Crisler Center. The game is set for 6 p.m. and can be seen live on ESPNU. Live Stats Live Video

The Wolverines have history with both teams. They have met with Villanova a couple times over the last few years. The Wildcats dominated Michigan from start to ...

This is the time of the year when brackets are busted and underdogs rise to the top. So will Ohio State, like the Wolverines last night, win as an underdog to advance to the Sweet 16? But Michigan, without head coach Juwan Howard and star center Hunter Dickinson, went to Columbus and stunned Ohio State to end the regular season, 75-69. Michigan and Ohio State each won a game against each other this year, with each win coming on the road. It’s the fifth straight season Michigan has made the second weekend in the tournament and if there was any year it wouldn’t make it, it would have been this year. The Wolverines have history with both teams.

The Buckeyes and head coach Chris Holtmann, who moved to 6-1 all-time in the first round of the NCAA tournament with the win over the Ramblers, now face the No.

They will have to play a game like they did against Wisconsin earlier in the season to win this one. I have Villanova winning this game in a close one and bringing Ohio State’s season to a close. The Buckeyes have been a little bit too inconsistent at times this season for them to win this one. This will have to be a masterclass defensive performance from the Buckeyes. At first glance, Villanova was a nightmare matchup for the Buckeyes due to Collin Gillespie and Justin Moore making up one of the top backcourts in college basketball, the Wildcats experience, and Jay Wright is a top-five coach in the game. Villanova is a trendy Final Four pick and some people have them winning the whole thing. Ohio State will have to play similar defense against Villanova as they did against Loyola-Chicago while playing much better on the offensive end. The senior Gillespie (15.9 PPG, 3.9 RPG, 3.4 APG) and junior Moore (15.2 PPG, 5.0 RPG) truly make up one of the best backcourts in basketball and are also incredibly veteran and experienced. Guys like Jamari Wheeler, Cedric Russell, and Justin Ahrens know that every game could be their last and they will be more motivated than ever to knock down those shots. It would be five but the 2020 tournament was canceled due to COVID 19. Coach Holtmann also recorded his fifth straight 20 win season as the Buckeyes headman. The Buckeyes survived and they advanced.

“Obviously, it's a painful loss,” OSU coach Chris Holtmann said. “I hate it for our players, but let's give Villanova credit, particularly how they started both ...

I was proud of the steadying hand of our older guys and our leadership. “Listen, when we got here a few years ago with (Butler), you keep getting here, you get here enough, you get here consistently, and it will happen.” Asked what he said to the team in the locker room afterwards, Holtmann said, "I just told them I was proud of them. We have been kinda searching for that and we have missed that third, fourth and sometimes fifth option.” You have losing stretches in plenty of seasons, but just the injury factor, I had never experienced that before. “We have been searching for that third and fourth guy, it's been Kyle a lot, other guys at times but it's been Kyle when we have been at full strength, sometimes Zed,” Holtmann said. Zed Key went in and did a good job, but we certainly missed him.” Asked for his reaction after the game, Liddell said, “I don't think reality has really kicked in yet that I wouldn't be able to -- this certain group of guys, a lot of guys these last games, older guys, seniors. “First and second half, we gotta come out more aggressive than they did.” He ended up 10 of 19 from the floor and 3 of 8 on threes. I wish I could have done a little bit more, though.” “We had stringed some stops together.”

The Ohio State basketball team tried to mount a comeback against Villanova, but it fell short. The Buckeyes lost to the Wildcats 71-61.

Malaki Branham got hot in the second half and finished with 23 points. Villanova was probably the better team, but coaching errors early in the game kept Ohio State from having a chance to win. Even though they made a run late in the second half, it wasn’t enough.

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Villanova, meanwhile, beat Delaware 80-60 to advance. Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann and Villanova coach Jay Wright are friends, but one of them is going home and one will be taking his team to San Antonio, the site of the NCAA Tournament South regional. But to get there, the No. 7 seed Buckeyes have to beat No. 2 seed Villanova at 2:40 p.m. in Pittsburgh. The game is on CBS.

For the second straight year and the fourth time out of the last six NCAA Tournaments, the 'Cats dance on to the Sweet 16.

They’ll return to San Antonio, where they faced Michigan as a freshmen in the 2018 National Championship game. The Wildcats improve to 28-7 overall and will play 11th-seeded Michigan in next week’s Sweet 16. Justin Moore responded with a three to give Villanova a bit of breathing room, but Ohio State was relentless. Ohio State trimmed the double-digit deficit down to as low as two points, but also made it a one-possession game on several occasions. “(E. J.) Liddell is a beast and (Malaki) Branham was a handful,” Villanova coach Jay Wright said. “They had a stretch where they were hitting shot after shot, and we just said ‘Attitude,’” Villanova guard Collin Gillespie said.

The last time these two played was in 2019 when OSU walked away with a 76-51 home win. Kyle Young and E.J. Liddell are the only players still currently on the ...

Villanova’s better, but there’s enough in OSU’s favor between Liddell, Branham and the return of Kyle Young for this to be a back and forth game for at least the first 35 minutes. But down the stretch, the Wildcats just have more people they can go to for offensive production while Ohio State is always a player going cold at the wrong time away from letting things get out of hand. But just like the Boilermakers did on Jan. 30, the Wildcats have four, and each impressed in Round One. The development of his overall offense has allowed that still to be a consistent threat with very few bad outings. Liddell was practically double every time he got the ball, and he wasn’t on the possessions. The last time these two played was in 2019 when OSU walked away with a 76-51 home win.

The Wildcats are headed back to the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row and the fourth time in seven years after beating Ohio State, 71-61.

Ohio State forward Kyle Young left with 8:55 to play after getting hit in the head. A 3-pointer by Ohio State's Jamari Wheeler drew the Buckeyes within 60-58 with 5:39 to play. Malachi Branham scored 15 of his 23 points in the second half.

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“That’s something we work on all the time,” Gillespie said. “They had a stretch where they were hitting shot after shot, and we just said ‘attitude’, stuck together and came together on the defensive end. Ohio State was on a 15-5 run and had cut a once 15-point lead down to two, but the Wildcats were not fazed, trusting in their game plan and each other.