SAN ANTONIO — All week, Villanova and Kansas laid out their chosen narratives for the national semifinal they were set to play late Saturday. Neither account seemed all that believable. The Wildcats emphasized that they had indeed faced some adversity in their dominant 2017–18 season, but at 34–4 they might as well have been selling snorkels to aquaphobiacs. The Jayhawks, meanwhile, peddled the idea that they were underdogs, that no one believed they could actually win, that a school with 100-plus years of basketball history needed divine intervention to beat a new-money basketball power. Kansas! Underdogs!
Villanova's Overpowering Perimeter Performance Against Kansas Puts Wildcats on Brink of Title
