There are sluggish starts. And then there are starts that simply never come into existence. Unfortunately for Villanova, the latter defined their night.
Falling to Michigan 46-73 at home in the new walls of The Finn, the Wildcats faltered in their “repeat” match-up of the 2018 National Championship game. The results, needless to say, were slightly different tonight.
For Villanova, flashes of offensive life dissipated far faster than the grinding minutes undergone to muster any attempt at shooting success. Michigan quickly established their dominance in the early minutes of the game—by the ten-minute mark of the first half, ‘Nova scrambled to show a meager eight total points on the scoreboard, compared to Michigan’s 22.