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Game Date:
04/02/2016
6:05pm EST
Lines:
Villanova -2.5
Oklahoma +2.5
Total:
Over
144 (-108)
Under 144 (-108)
Community Picks: Villanova 0% vs Oklahoma 0%
Villanova and Oklahoma Thread
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Oklahoma blitzed Villanova 78-55 in Hawaii on Dec. 7, and as is expected on Saturday, 3-pointers were the difference. The Sooners, led by Isaiah Cousins' 4-for-4 effort, went 14 of 26 while Villanova, with Kris Jenkins and Jalen Brunson both going 0-for-5, was 4 of 32 from beyond the arc. North Carolina and Syracuse, both members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, faced each other in a home-and-home series and the Tar Heels swept the Orange. Continue to Article
April 02, 2016 2:19:am EST
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Steve Henson, a member of Lon Kruger's Oklahoma men's basketball coaching staff for five years, has been chosen to be the head men's basketball coach at Texas-San Antonio. Continue to Article
April 01, 2016 9:09:pm EST
HOUSTON — The first time Mikal Bridges tried to guard Villanova wings Josh Hart and Darrun Hilliard in practice last season, it did not go well at all. He was too frail, too wide-eyed and too unprepared. "It was brutal," Bridges said. "They scored like every time I guarded them. They would just bully me." In the 18 months since Hart and Hilliard treated him like a turnstile in his first few practices, Bridges has evolved from a defensive liability to a defensive stopper. The 6-foot-7 redshirt freshman has added 20 pounds of muscle, learned to use his length and mobility as weapons and embraced the challenge of guarding opposing teams' top perimeter scorer. One way that Bridges has made an impact is with his disruptiveness in the passing lanes or at the top of Villanova's 1-2-2 press. More recently, he has also excelled at on-ball defense too, earning the crunch-time assignment of defending anyone from Providence point guard Kris Dunn, to Butler wing Roosevelt Jones to even Kansas power forward Perry Ellis. Bridges' defensive prowess and versatility make him one of Villanova's most important players entering Saturday's Final Four clash with perimeter-oriented Oklahoma. While no single player will defend national player of the year Buddy Hield by himself in Villanova's switching man-to-man scheme, Bridges and Hart will likely spend the most time of any of the Wildcats shadowing the NCAA tournament's most lethal scorer. Continue to Article
April 01, 2016 6:43:pm EST
Will Oklahoma cut down the nets in Houston? A lot depends on how Buddy Hield and other shooters adapt to NRG Stadium. Continue to Article
April 01, 2016 6:03:pm EST
Khadeem Lattin has always admired his grandfather, David ''Big Daddy'' Lattin. David Lattin's name went down in the history books in 1966 as part of the first all-black starting five to win an NCAA basketball national title. Fifty years later, Khadeem Lattin, a starting post player for Oklahoma, will play in the national semifinals Saturday against Villanova. Continue to Article
April 01, 2016 5:32:pm EST
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