The first look at the new era for Villanova men’s basketball shouldn’t have been surprising to too many people. It is, after all, supposed to look a lot like the old one. This was by design.
Head coach Kyle Neptune’s Wildcats looked a lot like Jay Wright’s Wildcats on Monday night. Bodies hit the floor on the defensive end. Shotmakers made jump shots when they were open. They faked when they weren’t … and then they were open. They made almost all of their free throws. Everything down to Neptune not having a designated chair for himself on the bench was a holdover from the Before Times.
So was the result, another Big 5 team on the receiving end of a Villanova beatdown.
