Chris Ballas was there for the game last night in San Antonio for the Wolverine.com.

He is standing by on the Meyer guest sign.

And Chris, and watching that game start to finish, what are some of your takeaways from it?

Yeah, number one, it was ugly.

And just like last year's UCLA game, they had a golden opportunity here where they played really well

defensively and probably forced Villanova into one of its worst offensive games of the year,

and they couldn't take advantage of it. And it was there for the taking. They had bunnies around

the rim. They had uncontested layups that they missed Hunter Dickinson. His first shot, his little

lefty hook was about two feet over the other side

of the rim from two feet away, and that just doesn't happen. There was something wrong last night

with him, and Villanova coach Jay Wright tried to take credit and said, well, our guys were

bodying him a little bit, but no, as Hunter Dickinson said, he was just off, and that was basically

it rubbed off on the rest of the team.

So it's unfortunate because I really felt the way they were playing defensively that they could have been little, or they could have been up by 10 points at halftime.

In the second half, again, so many missed opportunities when Villanova went five, six minutes without scoring

or missed six, seven

shots in a row, but just wasn't meant to be.

So it is what it is, and now we see what happens next year who comes back.

They're going to try to convince Mousa Diabate to come back for another year.

I don't think he's anywhere near ready.

Oh, I agree.

Yeah, he's a project, frankly.

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