#701/702 ASA TOP PLAY ON 10* Under 133 Points – Villanova vs Kansas, Saturday at 6 PM ET - Both defenses have been outstanding this season ranking in the top 20 in adjusted efficiency. They’ve both turned it up a notch on that end of the court in the NCAA tourney with Kansas allowing 59.8 PPG in their 5 games and Nova allowing 55 PPG. The Wildcats defense has been especially impressive allowing 61 points or less in each of their 4 tourney games despite playing 3 top 20 efficiency offenses (OSU, Houston, and Michigan). KU has allowed 61 or less in 3 of their 4 games. Besides the fact that both teams play great defense, they one thing we are banking on here is a very slow pace. NO WAY Nova head coach Jay Wright will let this game go up and down at a quick pace. First of all the Cats are very slow to being with (334th tempo) and they will be without one of their best players, Justin Moore, which makes this team really thin. Wright will need to play his starters as much as possible and most likely go only 6 deep for decent minutes at least. He’ll make this a half court game and KU prefers up tempo. Th only way this game gets moving quickly will be if Nova gets down by a large margin and they can’t affor to make it low possession game. We’ll bank on that not happening. When Kansas played the slowest paced teams in Big 12 (Okla, ISU, and Texas) each twice, they scored 140 or less in 5 of those games and 131 or less in 4 of the 6. They had one higher scoring game in that bunch vs Texas and if we throw that out KU’s average total points scored in the other 5 was just 127. A new, huge venue for both teams (Superdome) which will most likely make it tough to shoot the ball well from outside. We like the Under in this game.