INDIANAPOLIS – The new Big East is challenging perceptions not only of the old Big East, but of foundations about college basketball. That is, defense does not necessarily win games.
“If you’re not playing offense the way everybody else in this league is playing offense, it doesn’t matter how you play defense,” DePaul coach Dave Leitao said.
Butler, after losing to No. 5 Xavier 98-93 in overtime Tuesday, heads to Philadelphia on Saturday to face the most efficient offensive team in the country: Villanova. And the Wildcats are ranked No. 1.
It does not help the Bulldogs that 1) they have beaten Villanova in each of the past three meetings, or 2) Villanova is coming off a 79-75 home loss to St.