Kansas-Villanova Final Four lineups, tipoff time, TV channels, facts and figures
NCAA Final Four semifinal: Kansas vs Villanova
WHEN/WHERE: About 7:49 p.m. Saturday (or 40 minutes after the end of the Michigan-Loyola Chicago semifinal) at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
TV/RADIO: TBS (main broadcast), TNT (KU-centric broadcast); WHB (810 AM) (KU radio broadcast)
PROJECTED LINEUPS:
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
F 35 Udoka Azubuike 7-0 So. 13.1
G 10 Svi Mykhailiuk 6-8 Sr. 14.7
G 14 Malik Newman 6-3 So. 14.0
G 4 Devonté Graham 6-2 Sr. 17.2
G 2 Lagerald Vick 6-5 Jr. 12.2
P No. Villanova Ht. Yr. PPG
F 4 Eric Paschall 6-9 Jr. 10.3
F 14 Omari Spellman 6-9 Fr. 10.8
G 1 Jalen Brunson 6-3 Jr. 19.2
G 5 Phil Booth 6-3 Jr. 10.3
G 25 Mikal Bridges 6-7 Jr. 17.8
ABOUT KANSAS (31-7, Midwest Regional No. 1 seed): KU is 3-3 all-time against Villanova. KU has dropped the last two meetings: 64-59 in the NCAA Tournament South Regional final on March 26, 2016, in Louisville, Ky., and 63-59 in the second round of the 2013 Battle 4 Atlantis in Bahamas. KU rolled 72-57 in a 2008 Sweet 16 game in Detroit en route to the national title; Nova won the NCAA crown in ‘16. KU won 55-49 in the 1968 postseason NIT on March 18, 1965, in New York. The two teams played a home and home in 2004-05. KU prevailed 86-79 on Jan. 2, 2004 in Allen Fieldhouse and lost 83-64 on Jan. 22, 2005 in Philadelphia. … The two teams have scheduled a two-game series on Dec. 15, 2018 at Allen Fieldhouse and Dec. 21, 2019 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. … KU has won 31 games for the third straight season, the ninth time in the 15-year career of coach Bill Self and 15th time overall. … KU has reached its 15th Final Four, first since 2012. The Jayhawks are 9-5 in the national semifinals and 3-6 in title games and 0-2 in the consolation games. … Bill Self is making his 20th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament as a head coach, the fifth-best consecutive string by a head coach. Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski share the record of 23. … KU is 17-4 away from Allen Fieldhouse and 10-0 at neutral sites. … KU is 3-2 in NCAA Tournament play in San Antonio, with all five games in the Alamodome. Self is 3-1 as KU coach in the dome. … Devonté Graham, who had six assists in the regional final versus Duke, is KU’s single-season assist leader. He has 279, one more than Cedric Hunter in 1985-86. … Malik Newman has averaged 22.7 points per game in seven postseason contests. He has shot 54.2 percent (52 of 96) from the field, 54.9 percent (27 of 33) from three-point range and grabbed 5.1 rebounds per game. … Senior guard Svi Mykhailiuk’s double-double on Sunday versus Duke (11 points, 10 boards) was the first of his career. … Silvio De Sousa has grabbed double-digit rebounds three times in his last seven games. He’s averaging 7.0 boards a game in the postseason.
ABOUT VILLANOVA (34-4, East Regional No. 1 seed): Villanova has won nine straight games since falling at Creighton 89-83 in OT on Feb. 24 in Omaha, Neb. … The Wildcats went 14-4 in the Big East. … Villanova has reached its sixth Final Four. … One more victory would tie the school’s single-season victory record of 35, set by the 2016 NCAA champions (35-5). …Villanova (436 of 1091 from three) enters the KU game six three-point field goals from setting the NCAA record for most threes made in a season (VMI in 2007). KU has made 384 of 953 threes …Texas Tech limited Nova to 4-of-24 three-point shooting in Nova’s 71-59 Elite Eight win over the Red Raiders. … Jalen Brunson, the most outstanding player of the 2018 East Regional, is the first Wildcats player to score 700 or more points in a season (729) since Kerry Kittles in 1994-95. … Eric Paschall recorded his first Villanova double-double Sunday (12 points, 14 rebounds) against Texas Tech. … Nova is 25-11 in NCAA Tournament play under Jay Wright. The Wildcats have appeared in 13 of the last 14 NCAA Tournaments and are 2-1 (.667) in NCAA Final Four games under Wright. Wright became Nova's career coaching victories leader in February and currently has 420 Villanova victories. ... This will be the third consecutive Big 12 representative the Wildcats have faced (West Virginia, Texas Tech).
This story was originally published March 30, 2018 at 2:49 PM with the headline "Kansas-Villanova Final Four lineups, tipoff time, TV channels, facts and figures."