SAN ANTONIO (AP) Jermaine Samuels and Collin Gillespie were both on the floor for the final seconds of Villanova’s national championship game victory four years ago. They were true freshmen on a title team with five NBA-bound players.
Now they are fifth-year seniors leading the Wildcats, who are in another NCAA Final Four after Samuels was the South Region MVP and third-team AP All-America point guard Gillespie made a clutch shot late in the regional final.
”It’s crazy how things have come full circle,” Samuels said. ”Back then, it was amazing to watch those guys from the sidelines. I had front-row tickets to some of the greatest Villanova basketball players to ever put on the jersey.”
The Wildcats (30-7) have made the Final Four for the third time in the past six NCAA tourneys – they also won it all in 2016. They play in the first national semifinal game Saturday at the Superdome in New Orleans against Big 12 champion Kansas, the only No. 1 seed left in this year’s tourney.
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