{"id":1416423,"date":"2022-04-02T21:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T01:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416423"},"modified":"2022-04-02T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T01:29:40","slug":"kansas-handles-villanova-will-face-winner-of-duke-north-carolina-for-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kansas-handles-villanova-will-face-winner-of-duke-north-carolina-for-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Handles Villanova, Will Face Winner Of Duke-North Carolina For National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkansas-handles-villanova-will-face-winner-of-duke-north-carolina-for-national-championship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1389209240.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The last three times Kansas and Villanova have squared off in the NCAA tournament, the winner has gone on to win the national championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s a pretty good sign for Kansas, after defeating Villanova 81-65 in the national semifinals on Saturday night, and the Jayhawks will play for their sixth national championship on Monday. Kansas will play the winner of the second semifinal between Duke and North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think that we came out ready to play,\u201d Kansas head coach Bill Self said after the game. \u201cAnd it was kind of a little bit of a reversal, not near to the extent, but a reversal of \u201818 in that we really couldn\u2019t do much wrong early. We caught a few breaks and built the lead. You knew Villanova would make a run and we just kind of held on and responded.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kansas jumped all over Villanova to start, quickly building a 10-0 lead. The Jayhawks made seven of their first 10 attempts from three, including a 4-4 start from the Big 12 Player of the Year, Ochai Agbaji. Despite first half foul trouble, senior forward David McCormack was efficient, scoring 13 points in the first half, as Kansas outscored Villanova in the paint 16-8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust talking to coach, he wanted us to have an inside presence,\u201d <strong><span>McCormack said<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in the postgame press conference. \u201cAnd usually if you can play inside-out it opens up more shots, more driving lanes, a lot of cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Senior guard Collin Gillespie kept Villanova in the game in the first half, shooting four of six from the field with 11 points, as Villanova entered the half down just 11 after Kansas built a 19-point first half lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Wildcats cut it to six in the second half, but McCormick was too much inside for Villanova, finishing the night with 25 points and nine rebounds. Kansas finished the evening shooting 54.2% from three, knocking down 13 of their 24 attempts from beyond the arc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that even though they were the better team in the first 12 minutes of the second half \u2014 I don\u2019t know exactly what it was \u2014 even though they were better and had momentum, we always seemed to have an answer to kind of stem that momentum,\u201d Self said.<\/p>\n<p><span>Entering the weekend, the majority of the conversation surrounded the Duke versus North Carolina matchup, as well as the soon-to-come end of Mike Krzyzewski\u2019s storied career \u2014 which was fine by Kansas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s perfect,\u201d Kansas guard Christian Braun told reporters on Friday. \u201cWe don\u2019t need anyone to talk us up. I feel like we know who we are. We\u2019re Kansas. We don\u2019t need to compare ourselves to anybody. We have the best coach [Bill Self] in the country, and we have really good players. We\u2019re all very confident in what we do, so [the media] can talk about whoever they want. We know what we do, we know what we\u2019ve done all year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For Kansas, it\u2019s the 10th appearance in the national championship game, and they\u2019ll be seeking their second title under Self.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Enter for the chance to hang out with Gina Carano at the premiere of her new Daily Wire movie, Terror on the Prairie! Two lucky Daily Wire members will be given the complete red carpet treatment \u2013 free airfare, hotel, premiere car service, and exclusive merch. Daily Wire members can click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/redcarpet\">here<\/a>\u00a0to enter for a chance to win. If you\u2019re not a Daily Wire member yet, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/subscribe\">here<\/a>\u00a0to join us so you can win this once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last three times Kansas and Villanova have squared off in the NCAA tournament, the winner has gone on to win the national championship.It\u2019s a pretty good sign for Kansas,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}