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A chaotic men’s tournament has given way to a final weekend rich in college hoops pedigree.

The junior All-Big East talent exited in the closing moments against Houston.

SAN ANTONIO — They may be limping into New Orleans, but the Villanova Wildcats will show up at the Superdome next weekend after one of the most satisfying March runs in school history, even if this game was finished in slow motion.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Jermaine Samuels is usually a cool customer, with a friendly manner about him, letting his game do most of his talking. In the second half Thursday inside the AT&T Center, NCAA Sweet 16, the Villanova fifth-year forward played it entirely different. Samuels took a charge and…

PITTSBURGH — Eric Dixon did not play the final 90 seconds of Villanova's 71-61 victory over Ohio State on Sunday, the victory that sent the Wildcats to their fourth Sweet 16 in the last six NCAA Tournaments. It was an exit George Costanza could appreciate.

PITTSBURGH – Nope, wasn’t going to be easy, getting past Ohio State. Looked all kinds of hard-earned easy for awhile inside PPG Paints Arena, Villanova building a lead to double-digits, then up to 15 points. A glide path into the Sweet 16?

PITTSBURGH — Villanova point guard Colin Gillespie took the full-impact charge from his Delaware counterpart, Jameer Nelson Jr., and skidded backwards, right off the court. Gillespie glanced up … the scoreboard inside PPG Paints Arena replayed his skid larger than life.

NEW YORK — It wasn’t his night, until Collin Gillespie decided it was.

NEW YORK — Here it was, the point of Connecticut rejoining the Big East Conference, a packed Madison Square Garden for a late Friday night game in March … “Let’s go Huskies” filling the Garden air. UConn fans, a huge part of the 19,812 crowd inside, up on their feet…