Daily News | Villanova holds on to edge UConn in Big East semifinal; Cats to face Creighton for title
NEW YORK – Here it was, the point of Connecticut rejoining the Big East Conference, a packed Madison Square Garden for a late Friday night game in March … “Let’s go Huskies” filling the Garden air. UConn fans, a huge part of the 19,812 crowd inside, up on their feet in joy, or up in arms.
This game really didn’t follow a usual Villanova script. The top two scorers for the season were not the scoring stars this night. Jermaine “What back spasms?” Samuels was scoring from the start, inside and out, scoring 21. Brandon Slater provided energy and 15 points, and punctuated it all by blocking a UConn shot that had looked like it was about to be a UConn dunk.
The Wildcats looked like it had all but put it away, taking a 60-53 lead with just under 5 minutes left. But 60 wasn’t enough, and Villanova was still at 60 with 15.4 seconds left, Jermaine Samuels at the foul line for the front end of a one-and-one. Samuels made the first, took four dribbles, put the second one softly in off the rim for 62-57 lead.
The Huskies had the edge in early three-point efficiency, making 4 of 8 for a 21-19 lead with 7 minutes left, while ‘Nova made 5 of 14 Points in paint with 4 minutes left in the half were 12-0 for UConn. But not as big an advantage as it sounds, since this was a chess match, Villanova living with that, because the Wildcats had heated up from three — Samuels, Brandon Slater and Caleb Daniels each hitting from deep for a 30-25 lead.You’d be quite the clairvoyant.
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