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The Wildcats were down early and never closed the gap, ending the year with a 81-65 loss and missing out on the NCAA championship game.

That would be the night of the national champtionship game if Villanova defeats Kansas in the Final Four Saturday.“If they win it could be a late night, and likewise for Monday.”» READ MORE: Cops are preparing for celebratory mayhem in Villanova. It’s certainly happened before. For the NCAA Tournament, how about a suit?’ He hasn’t hit me yet with ‘Final Four, how about a suit?’ But he jokes about it.”» READ MORE: Casual Jay Wright gets mixed reviews, but he loves it Arcidiacono will get his own Final Four experience this weekend and could be asked to play a key role for the Wildcats, but it wasn’t always guaranteed that the youngest Arcidiacono brother would get the chance to taste this experience for himself.He was recruited by smaller schools while playing at Neshaminy High, pushing him to enroll at the Perkiomen School for a postgraduate year in hopes that he could force his way into Villanova’s plans. As the crowd waited for the game to start, they sang along and danced excitedly to music blaring from the stadium’s speakers.For students like junior Amanda Ashton, 20, this year marked her first real March Madness experience, one that swayed her decision to come to Villanova when she toured the school in 2018.Ashton went to all of the Villanova basketball games her freshman year.”We were looking forward to having maybe a championship then but with COVID we didn’t get to see any of that and no game sophomore year,” she said. “Coming back junior year, we were really excited to get this far in the championship and get to actually see Villanova for the good basketball school everyone talks about.” To know that about Gillespie was to understand that Saturday night promised to test the strength of his implacable exterior in a way that nothing in his Villanova career had before. Despite the Jayhawks’ early and steady lead, spirits remain high at the Pavilion with fans erupting in cheers with every Villanova basket like it’s a game winning shot. They’ve been down by as many 16 in the second half — and as few as seven — but they’re running out of time if they want to pull off the upset. Get Collin one-on-one – not for a game to 11, just for a conversation – and there’s always the sense that he’s sizing you up, and you’ll get nothing but name, rank, and serial number from him until he’s comfortable enough, until he trusts you enough, to give you more. They received hugs from every player and coach on the bench and stood together with their arms around each other as the final seconds expired on their college careers.» READ MORE: Kansas races out to big lead, ends Villanova’s Final Four run, 81-65 Collin Gillespie gave his all, but it wasn’t enoughNEW ORLEANS — Away from the basketball court, Collin Gillespie tends to carry himself with all the openness and naked emotion of a special agent with a secret to guard and a mission to complete. Yes, he had torn the medial collateral ligament in his left knee 13 months ago, an injury that prevented him playing at all in last year’s NCAA Tournament. But this national-semifinal matchup against Kansas, his 156th game for the Wildcats, threatened to be his last game for the Wildcats.» READ MORE: Collin Gillespie ended his Villanova career by giving everything, as usual.

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That Agbaji would play such a central role was hard to see coming when he arrived in Lawrence five years ago. When Agbaji sliced through the Villanova defense and dished to McCormack for a rim-rattling dunk, Kansas had thrust its lead to 26-11 a little more than 10 minutes into the game, prompting a timeout by Villanova. “That can become a problem for us.”

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Live updates from the Superdome during the Kansas vs. Villanova men's Final Four game in New Orleans.

"I could say for myself that they were definitely going to win (the NCAA tournament). They were at a high. We at least want to remember this moment, we felt like we were on top of the world. "They were all upset," said Yesufu, a transfer from Drake, who was in class when he learned via text that the 2020 NCAA Tournament had been canceled. "We were playing Xavier (in the Big East tournament) and we won. "I know exactly where I was," McCormack, a senior forward, said Friday of the moment he learned the season was canceled. But the latter group has heard the stories from their teammates about just how good that team was and what its players believed they could accomplish.

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El partido por el campeonato nacional será el lunes a las 8:20 p.m. tiempo del Este, en la misma gigantesca arena en la que se ha convertido el estadio de los New Orleans Saints, que se llenó por completo. Kansas dominó de punta a punta el partido en el Ceasar’s Dome de New Orleans, donde jamás estuvo abajo en el marcador y presumió lo que les ha llevado hasta el partido del campeonato nacional, su defensa. Por Villanova, Collin Gillespie fue quien los mantuvo en competencia y quien dio esperanzas a sus aficionados de que podrían encabezar una remontada histórica.

Dubbed the “other” semifinal in a historic Duke vs UNC Final Four, the Jayhawks delivered a clear message in their win over Villanova.

Not to the Jayhawks, not to their coach and not on Monday night. The last time these teams played in a late-season NCAA tournament contest, the Wildcats opened a 22–4 lead in 2018 and ran away not only from the Jayhawks but toward their second one shining moment in three seasons. The Jayhawks certainly were experienced, their roster full of seniors and super seniors and players who had lived through so much uncertainty and turbulence. Kansas was the more talented team, the deeper team and the healthier team. Self liked to say that Agbaji reminded him of Danny Manning, one of the best players in the history of a program laden with worthy candidates. But Agbaji’s scoring had dropped in the NCAA tournament, bottoming out with a five-point effort in Kansas’s win over Providence in the Sweet 16. This was the same guard who hadn’t received a Power 5 scholarship offer until the final semester of his senior year in high school, who went to Kansas, to play for Self, the one coach who believed in him. He became an All-American and won everything in sight this season: Big 12 Player of the Year, Big 12 tournament MVP, Big 12 title. For the next two hours, a basketball game transformed into a demolition derby that doubled as a reaffirmation of Kansas men’s basketball and its national title chances. In some ways, the disinterest of Kansas-Villanova centered on the Wildcats, who were busy cobbling together another game-plan adjusted for injury to worry about things like interest. Then they walloped a good-but-overmanned opponent, from the opening tip to the final buzzer, winning easily, 81–65. Their victory, in both style and thoroughness, reminded a nation of college basketball fans obsessed with every Krzyzewski hand movement that perhaps the widespread belief in the inevitably of a Duke title was, at the very least, a little wishful or premature. Reminder: on March 25, Kansas passed Kentucky for the most wins in the history of men’s college basketball.