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 Villanova Wildcats Game Recaps March 2009
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Villanova Wildcats 77 at Notre Dame 60
Date: 03/02/09
| | Game Summary | SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Scottie Reynolds scored 23 points, Dante Cunningham added 18 and eight rebounds and No. 11 Villanova turned the ball over a season-low five times Monday night to beat Notre Dame 77-60. The Wildcats (24-6, 12-5 Big East), who had a season-high 20 turnovers in a loss to Georgetown on Saturday, took control with runs of 10-2 and 16-1 in the second half. Dwayne Anderson punctuated the final run with a slam dunk to give Villanova a 67-51 lead with 4:50 left. The Irish (16-13, 7-10) went nearly seven minutes without a field goal. The loss ensures the Irish will finish with a losing league record and will likely need to win the Big East tournament to earn a third straight NCAA tournament berth.
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Villanova Wildcats 97 Vs. Providence 80
Date: 03/05/09
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Villanova Wildcats at 76 Marquette 75 Big East Championship
Date: 3/12/09
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Villanova Wildcats 55 at Syracuse 69 OT, Big East Championship
Date: 3/14/09
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Villanova Wildcats 80 at American 57 NCAA Philadelphia, PA
Date: 3/19/09
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Villanova Wildcats 89 at UCLA 69 NCAA Tournament Philadelphia, PA
Date: 3/21/09
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Villanova Wildcats 77 at Duke 54 NCAA Tournament Boston, MA
Date: 3/26/09
| | Game Summary | The third-seeded Wildcats beat Duke for the first time in more than 50 years on Thursday night, getting 14 points and 11 rebounds from Dante Cunningham to win 77-54 and advance to the East regional final. It was Villanova's 14th NCAA victory over a higher-seeded team - the most in tournament history. "Hopefully that will be some magical power that helps us beat Pitt," Wildcats guard Scottie Reynolds said. Villanova (29-7) will play Big East rival and No. 1 seed Pittsburgh (31-4) on Saturday for a trip to the Final Four. The Wildcats beat Pitt 67-57 in their regular-season meeting at Philadelphia on Jan. 28.
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| | Villanova Wildcats 78 at Pittsburgh 76 NCAA Tournament Boston, MA Date: 03/28/09Villanova Wildcats 69 at North Carolina 83 NCAA Tournament Final Four Detroit, MI
Date: 04/04/09
Ty Lawson scored 22 points, Wayne Ellington had 20 more, and the Tar Heels, with their four, five, maybe more NBA-caliber players, eased to an 83-69 win Saturday night over the plucky but overmatched Wildcats. Tyler Hansbrough had 18 points and 11 rebounds to mark a quite successful return to the Final Four after a remarkable dud last year in a semifinal loss to Kansas. Next up, North Carolina (33-4) goes for its second title in five years Monday against Michigan State, an 82-73 winner over Connecticut.
Meanwhile, Villanova (30-8) ends a successful season two wins short of its first title since 1985, when Rollie Massimino coaxed one of the greatest upsets in sports history out of his guys - 66-64 over Patrick Ewing, John Thompson and Georgetown. Thompson was on press row doing radio and Massimino was chomping his gum nervously behind the Villanova bench, part of the record crowd of 72,456 at Ford Field. The Wildcats cut the deficit to five early in the second half and it could have been three, but Cunningham's jumper went halfway in before cruelly rimming out. Green answered with a 3-pointer, then the Tar Heels got a steal and layup from Lawson to push the lead back to 10. That took all of 64 seconds.
It was a typical no-quit effort from coach Jay Wright's group of seasoned upperclassmen, who battled through the Big East and started putting it together come tournament time. Scottie Reynolds will always have that indelible end-to-end game-winning layup against Pittsburgh last weekend that got Villanova to its Final Four since '85. His first basket in this one, however, didn't come until more than 9 minutes were gone and the deficit was in double digits. He finished with 17 points on 6-for-18 shooting. Cunningham, the Wildcats' leading scorer and rebounder this season, led them again with 12 and 12. A lot of the Villanova stats didn't look so bad. They got five more rebounds and were even in the turnover battle. They hustled and dove on the floor all night. But as the game was getting out of reach early, they simply couldn't defend. North Carolina shot 67 percent while opening that 17-point lead in the first half. The Tar Heels led 49-40 at halftime. And the Wildcats couldn't shoot. 'Nova shot 33 percent from the floor, not exactly the 78.6 percent from that "perfect game" back in '85. They were even worse from 3-point range - 5-for-27.
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