Given what it takes to succeed in big-time college athletics nowadays,Villanovas moment national title is nearly as preposterous as their epochal 1985 triumphIt was the greatest March insanity record ever told: how unfancied Villanova overcame mighty Georgetown to capture the unlikeliest of national titles in 1985. A tiny school from the Philadelphia suburbs defeats the overwhelmingly favored defending champions led by future corridor of Fame center Patrick Ewing, derailing a dynasty obvious at the final hurdle. The tale has arrive to embody the giant-killing mythos of the NCAA tournament more than any other.
On the surface Villanova’s moment national title, or clinched Monday night in a white-knuckle thriller featuring nine ties and nine lead changes rightly hailed as the greatest title game ever played,bears little resemblance to the 1985 team’s fairytale run. Those Wildcats finished the season with a 19-10 record and were fortunate to even make the tournament as a No8 seed – still the lowest ever to win the title – while this year’s team were a No2 that spent nearly a month atop the national rankings.
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Source: theguardian.com