Hey there, it's Gary Parish. It's Friday, February 1st, 2019. Welcome back to the Ion College

basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss Camel fighting, sometimes discuss

Leaky Black, Matt Norlander is here with me and we will preview the weekends top games

eventually. Games like North Carolina at Lulwell, Kentucky at Florida, Texas Tech at Kansas,

Indiana at Michigan State. But first I want to spend a few minutes on Villanova because I'm

not sure how many people recognize exactly what Villanova has been doing lately. We talked

a lot about Jay writes wild cats when they got blasted by Michigan when they lost to firm

and lost to pin. So it's only fair to highlight how they won nine straight games now. They're

eight no in the big east and how they're doing it is especially impressive. Villanova is

just straight killing folks from the three point line. Here are the numbers from the

past five games. Check this out. 12 of 27 from three in a 90 78 win at Creighton. 15 to 34

from three in an 85 75 win over Xavier. 12 of 26 from three in an 80 72 win at Butler. 17

to 42 from three in an 80 52 win over Setonha 15 to 35 from three in an 86 74 win at DePaul.

You add it up and Villanova is 71 of 164 from three in its past five games. It's 43.3%

while averaging 14.2 makes per contest. Norlanda, you tell me how tough is Villanova if it

continues to shoot anywhere close to this the rest of the season. And are you ready to call

the wild cats a final four contender once again. I'm getting pretty close there, Parrish. I've

got him at 10th in my power rankings. I believe that is seven spots ahead of your daily top 25

and one Villanova is doing what Jay Wright bowed to me that they would do. And I was a little

skeptical when he said this in the preseason, but it's true. Those numbers are big, they're

spectacular. And Villanova is now second to only the I will not say gimmicky, but I will

say I don't even know what word I do. Savannah State runs an offense that is so three point

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