Columbia entered the 2024 season picked to complete fifth within the Ivy League. The Lions haven’t completed above .500 in a decade. It hasn’t defeated a workforce from the Large East over that span, both.
Effectively, a minimum of it hadn’t till Wednesday evening when Columbia walked into Finneran Pavilion as a 17-point underdog and delivered Villanova a shocking defeat, 90-80.
Congrats to anybody who took the Lions at 100-1 on the moneyline, however let’s be sincere. This catastrophe is far more about what’s occurred to Villanova than something the Lions did proper.
(Although shoutout to Columbia’s Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa and his 22 factors, 4 assists and three steals within the win.)
2-0‼️ Some tape from final evening’s 90-80 upset over Villanova 😤😤#RoarLionRoar🦁 // #OnlyHere🗽 // #MaxEffort pic.twitter.com/bqvEdyQbXp
— Columbia Males’s Basketball (@CULionsMBB) November 7, 2024
“If we had received that sport, we might nonetheless must get lots higher,” Villanova coach Kyle Neptune said after the loss. “We’re simply not the place we have to be proper now. We’ve received to return, watch this movie, be taught from it and transfer onto the following sport and get higher.”
We’ll see how a lot time the Wildcats give Neptune to proper the ship. As ESPN’s Myron Medcalf famous, that is his sixth loss to a workforce that entered the sport with a sub-100 rating on KenPom since taking on for Jay Wright forward of the 2022-23 season. He’s now 35–33 with two first-round exits within the NIT.
Villanova reached the Closing 4 in 2016, 2018 and 2022 and people groups appear lightyears away from the place this system is now.
Lower than per week into the season, faculty basketball has it’s first coach actually on the new seat and it’s arduous think about Neptune will escape it shortly or simply.
Within the meantime, contemplate this your invitation to fade the Wildcats till additional discover. The Wildcats have been 17-14-0 in opposition to the unfold final season, 13-18-0 the 12 months earlier than and at the moment are 0-2 ATS to start the 2024-25 marketing campaign.
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