Villanova loses by 2 at UConn
Kemba Walker, the nation's second-leading scorer, hit a floater in the lane with 2.5 seconds left, to give the Huskies a 61-59 victory.
Villanova loses by 2 at UConn
STORRS, Conn. — Before Monday, Villanova had played four road games: at Penn, La Salle, Monmouth and South Florida.
This was different. This time, the obstacle was a fellow top 10 Big East club.
For most of the way at Gampel Pavilion, it didn’t make much of a difference. The seventh-ranked Wildcats (16-2, 4-1 conference) led No. 8 Connecticut (15-2, 4-2) by seven points with 9 minutes to go. But in the end, it came down to a great player making one more play than Villanova’s main guy.
Kemba Walker, the nation’s second-leading scorer, hit a floater in the lane with 2.5 seconds left, to give the Huskies a 61-59 victory, their third straight in this series.
Villanova's Corey Fisher, his junior high school teammate, had tied things 20 seconds earlier, by making both ends of a 1-and-1 after getting fouled by Walker.
Walker finished with 24, just under his average.
Fisher had a season-high 28.
The Wildcats played without sixth man Dominic Cheek, who suffered a sprained left knee in Saturday’s win over Maryland. He might not be available for Saturday’s trip to Syracuse.
Any word if Stokes is still battling with his hamstring problem? It looked like he wasn't anywhere close to 100%— SoCal
