The NCAA Tournament is live online Saturday with Villanova playing Connecticut and the Huskies and Wildcats are looking to advance in the east bracket and the college basketball matchup starts at 9:40 pm ET and has a star in Shabazz Napier hoping to get UConn past Nova in a classic Big East matchup and the game is from the First Niagara Center from Buffalo on TV from TBS.
UConn comes into the matchup after winning over St. Joes and Nova comes in with a nice win against Milwaukee and now the seventh seed in the bracket will matchup with the second seed. Villanova was looking like one of the number one seeds in the tournament, but after losing early in the conference tourney, they ended up at number two and now they are bringing some experience to the matchup with UConn and they have been one of the best offensive teams in the nation and are scoring nearly 80 points per game to rank 30th in the nation and they are also 20th in assists per game and in the top 65 in rebounding and their frontline will be a major key in the game against the Huskies and Napier. Nova played against Milwaukee and they will matchup with the winner of UNC and Iowa State and that could be a great east matchup as well.
Virginia is the number one seed in the east and they are playing against Memphis in New York and these games will play out for the Sweet 16 and the Huskies will be looking to get Napier going early. This season Napier has led the team in scoring, rebounding and assists and he scored 24 points and eight rebounds along with six assists in the game against St. Joes and if they can drop 89 points again, they will be tough to beat and they could be a big spoiler heading down the line in the tournament. Napier will be key for the Huskies and he has been one of the top players in the nation again and he can really take over a game like Kemba Walker did for the team back in the day. The team is averaging over 70 points per game and they are one of the sleepers in the east bracket.