The Radford Highlanders are not satisfied in winning their First Four matchup against LIU Brooklyn, as they intend to beat the Villanova Wildcats (don’t laugh) in the first round of the tournament this Thursday. Will the impossible happen with Radford taking down the Wildcats? Or will Villanova destroy Radford like what most people expect them to do? Register here to make your pick.
Betting Preview for the Radford Highlanders vs Villanova Wildcats College Basketball Game on March 15, 2018
Where: PPG Paints Arena
When: Thursday, March 15, 6:50PM
Line: Radford Highlanders () vs Villanova Wildcats () – view all NCAA Basketball lines
TV Broadcast: TNT
Betting on the Radford Highlanders (23-12)
It would take a miracle for Radford to take down Villanova. Divine intervention is not for the Highlanders to decide, so they’ll just have to play to their strengths and hope to keep it close heading into the last minutes of the game against the Wildcats to give them a shot winning. The Highlanders are are notorious for slowing the game’s pace down that paint usually dries first before anything happens in their games. Radford’s tempo is 345th in the nation per KenPom. It’d be hard for the Highlanders to dictate the tempo against a stacked team like Villanova, but that doesn’t mean they won’t give it a shot. Radford is allowing just 64.9 points per game with opponents taking only 52.8 shots per contest.
Betting on the Villanova Wildcats (30-4)
Villanova is ready to crush some poor school’s hopes and dreams. That school is Radford, which looks like a mere sacrificial lamb for the Wildcats, who enter the Big Dance on a five-game win streak that included a win in the Big East title game against Providence. Villanova boasts of the nation’s best offense. It is ranked first in KenPom’s adjusted offensive efficiency and in basic metrics with 87.1 points per game. The Wildcats’ backcourt is terrifying with the duo of Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges alternating in stupefying opposing defenses. Brunson leads the team with 19.4 points per game, while Bridges averages 18.0. The Wildcats are also tops nationally in effective field goal percentage (59.7) and hits 11.4 three-pointers per game on 39.8 percent shooting from the field.
Writer’s Prediction
Villanova wins (duh), 82-65.
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