PITTSBURGH (AP) – Notre Dame won first, then Butler. All that’s missing in Saturday’s all-Hoosier showdown is Jimmy Chitwood telling Norman Dale, “I’ll make it.”
Villanova has a date with North Carolina State in a matchup between two 1980s NCAA Tournament darlings who have spent three decades trying to recapture national championships.
It was getting another game at the Consol Center that was the hard part for N.C. State and Notre Dame.
Butler got by on Thursday like it always does in March. And Villanova? Well, beware a top-seeded Wildcats team that romped their way toward a blowout win against Lafayette and showed President Barack Obama might have a future as a full-fledged bracketologist.
“They were very scary on film,” Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon said.