Villanova, the team that buried Kansas under an avalanche of three-point shots in the Final Four last season, has continued to fire away during the 2018-19 nonconference campaign.
The No. 17-ranked Wildcats (8-3), who meet No. 1-ranked KU (8-0) in an 11 a.m. tipoff on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse, have launched 30 or more threes in six of their 11 games. KU has taken no more than 23 threes in any game.
Jay Wright’s defending national champs — they hit 18 of 40 threes in a 95-79 victory over KU on March 31 in San Antonio — converted 14 of a season-high 44 three-point tries in a 76-68 overtime loss to Furman on Nov.