The Villanova Wildcats travel north to Newark, New Jersey to seek a regular-season sweep of the Seton Hall Pirates. If the Wildcats are able to win this game, they will clinch the six seed in next week’s Big East Tournament.
As Creighton coach Doug McDermott said after getting obliterated by a hot-shooting Eric Dixon and the Wildcats’ defense, “nobody wants to play [Villanova], nobody.” The ‘Cats are hot at the right time in large part due to star guard Justin Moore returning to form after tearing his Achilles in the final seconds of last year’s Elite Eight win over Houston.