HOUSTON -- No one gave him a chance. He was just the good-looking, perfectly put-together coach with the satchel who couldn't get out of the first weekend.
All glitz, no substance.
Now Jay Wright, with just one more victory, will have a chance to join Rollie Massimino in the annals of Villanova Wildcats basketball.
This was a team that was picked apart and passed over, one without a star, whom few casual college basketball fans were able to rattle off a single player's name until Saturday night's 95-51 complete annihilation of the Oklahoma Sooners.