The Villanova Wildcats are back in the championship game for an astounding fifth-straight year. What’s even better is that they’ll have a chance to do something that no Big East team has done since its inception for the 1979-80 season, three-peat as Big East Tournament champions.
Villanova’s path to the finals hasn’t been as pretty or aesthetically pleasing as some of the other recent championship performances, but it’s gutted out two solid wins to make it this far.
On Thursday, the Wildcats managed to hold off a pesky Providence Friars team that just wouldn’t go away.