Villanova does nothing right during loss to Georgetown in Big East Tournament
· Yahoo Sports
Basketball is a simple game sometimes. It’s hard to win when you don’t make shots and it’s hard to win when you can’t grab rebounds.
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On Thursday night, Villanova couldn’t do either — and more — as the Wildcats turned in their worst game of the season on the biggest stage.
Third-seeded Villanova shot 38% from the field and struggled to get stops all night long during a 78-64 loss to 11th-seeded Georgetown in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden.
The Wildcats (24-8) were outrebounded 46-25 and allowed 16 offensive rebounds.
It was a slow start for both sides but Villanova rode the hot shooting of Bryce Lindsay in the first half. Lindsay hit three if his first four shots from deep, including a fast-break three off a defensive lapse by Georgetown (16-17) to put Villanova up 27-18.
From that moment until the final buzzer, it was all Hoyas.
Georgetown closed the first half on a 17-4 run. Villanova scored just two points over the final 6:45 of the first half.
The Wildcats would get within one in the second half but did not grab a lead. At 56-51, Georgetown put together an 11-2 run, headlined by back-to-back three’s by Kayvaun Mulrrady to give the Hoyas their largest lead, at the time, of 14.
Duke Brennan led Villanova with 14 points while Tyler Perkins added 13, but was just 2-for-7 from three. Bryce Lindsay scored 11 points in a small bounce back game but the game plan seemed to go away from him in the second half.
Is Villanova on the bubble? No, and thankfully not after a game like this. What the Wildcats were on the bubble of is a potential seven seed ahead of Selection Sunday. This game likely lands the team on the eight line.
At this moment, seeding for the NCAA Tournament is not a concern. If Villanova does not come out looking better than it did during its first tournament appearance of the postseason, it will not matter where the team is seeded.