Villanova made 18 threes Saturday night in its Final Four beat down of the Kansas Jayhawks. The Wildcats tied UNLV’s record of 13 threes, one that was 31 years old, in one half of basketball. There was no luck involved. This was their plan.
The Wildcats took a staggering 61.5% of their shots from range, hitting 45.0% of them. Six players hit two or more threes and, most astonishingly, the Wildcats made it look easy. Villanova had a game plan and it executed it to perfection. It blitzed Kansas to start, adjusted when its opponent countered, and ran away with it before Kansas could get a foothold.