SAN ANTONIO â Sixty-six down, Michigan and Villanova to go.
The NCAA tournament is a two-team duel now, and here are 11 things that might â or might not â happen Monday night in the Alamodome.
1. Villanovaâs Jay Wright, say hello to the 13 coaches who have won multiple national championships. âYou canât say itâs a dream come true because you donât even dream about it,â he said Saturday night, after the Wildcats crunched Kansas 95-79. âYou donât dream about getting two out of three years. You donât think about it. I donât.â2. At the end of the day, after all the disarray of this NCAA tournament, a No. 1 seed is finishing one of the most dominant runs in memory. Villanova has won all five games by double digits, by an average margin of 17.8. The last champion to win all six by double figures was North Carolina in 2009. The throttling of Kansas, that included 13 3-pointers in the first half at one end and suffocating defense at the other, could not have been more impressive.
âThey were unbelievable,â Jayhawks coach Bill Self said from the wrong end of that score. âIf I ever watch the game tape â which I know what happened, so I probably wonât â Iâll think more about how good Villanova was.âAnd from the right end: âJust one of those nights,â Wright said. âWe made every shot to start the game.â
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3.)Â An ugly championship game. For Michiganâs sake, the uglier the better. Because if itâs an offensive show . . .
âThatâs not what we hang our hat on, or shot-making ability,â the Wolverinesâ Duncan Robinson was saying. âWe hang our hats on the defensive end.âMichigan has allowed one opponent to break 70 in regulation in seven weeks. That stat is about to get a stern challenge.
4.)Â The team record for 3-pointers in a national championship game is 12. Does anyone expect Villanova â after 13 in the first 17 minutes Saturday night â not to shatter it?
5.)Â Only the fifth meeting between these two schools in history. One was a 59-55 Villanova win in the second round in 1985, part of the Wildcats' ride to the title. Theyâre not the No. 8 seed this time.
6.)Â Michigan becoming the 16th school with multiple championships, while ending the Big Tenâs 17-year title drought and becoming only the third No. 3 seed to win the title in 29 years. âItâs something we always talk about,â Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman said. âThatâs how youâre remembered at the University of Michigan, itâs by championships.â
7.)Â Jalen Brunson adding the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four to national player of the year â a rare double, indeed. Not that heâs thinking much about it. âYou cherish a championship and these bonds for a long time,â he said. âThose awards only last for so long.â Then again, he won't win the MOP if teammate Eric Paschall goes 10-for-11 shooting and 4-for-5 in 3-pointers again.
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8.)Â Moe Wagner, Michigan hero for the ages if he can pull this off.
9.)Â Villanova losing the edge after Saturdayâs virtuoso performance.10.)Â Or not. Doesnât sound like they plan on it.
Not from Donte DiVincenzo: âWhen we came in (the locker room), we knew we were in the national championship game. You have to take that in for a second, you have to recognize it, and then you have to move forward.â
Nor Brunson: âWeâll try to be the best team we can be on Monday night. Thatâs all weâve worked for, to be the best team we can be by the end of the year.â
Nor Omari Spellman: âJust coming out, ready to compete and defend and rebound and continue to do what we do. We donât pride ourselves on shooting the ball well. We pride ourselves on defending and rebounding, and thatâs our true measure of success in playing Villanova basketball.
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âWe will celebrate when the job is done.â
11.)Â And finally, Michigan a big enough underdog in some eyes to almost be Loyola â without the nun.
âWe know theyâre a great team, because theyâve gotten to this point,â DiVincenzo said.
âWeâre still hungry. We feel like we can be national champions,â Abdur-Rahkman said.
That was right after Michiganâs victory, before he knew who the Wolverines would be playing. A few minutes later, Villanova led Kansas 22-4.