";s:4:"text";s:4440:""It's nice to be home at the Pavilion, man," Villanova coach Jay Wright said. "We had to know where Bias was all the time. Villanova held an eight-point lead but it scored just nine points in the first 15 and a half minutes of the second half, going almost 14 minutes with one field goal and committing five turnovers in a row at one point. Four Villanova players scored at least 15 points, led by Dwight Wilbur's 20 points.Ed Pinckney had 22 points and 11 rebounds before fouling out as Villanova lost its first game of the season to Georgia in overtime at the Omni. The Wildcats entered the 1984 NCAA tournament with an 18-11 record, then they entered the 1985 NCAA tournament with a 19-10 record.Senior guard Frank Dobbs graduated after the 1984 season, when he was fourth on the team in scoring after averaging 10.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game.Villanova then enrolled freshman forward Mark Plansky, 6-7, who averaged 3.3 points and 2.0 rebounds per game during the 1985 season.The 1985 NCAA tournament was the first NCAA tournament with a 64-team bracket, expanding from the 53-team field that was used in 1984. "We have guards that can shoot the ball just as well as anybody in the country, I feel like, and we just want to go out there and prove ourselves, and I thought we did that tonight," Perrantes said.After losing at Virginia, Villanova found itself in a 12-2 hole at the first timeout against Delaware. [Villanova coach Rollie Massimino] really got on us," Harold Pressley said, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1 seed Kansas and No. Feb 14 @ Providence, Villanova (23-3) Loss vs. Providence, 71-7627. I mean, I saw Kris Jenkins coming over and I knew that he wouldn't be able to get in position fast enough for me to draw a charge. A tough Big East schedule paid off in the form of a huge upset in March. The fun part was that most of the participants were watching live, shown on screen, trash-talking each other, incredulous at … The Wildcats held onto the ball for the last shot but Harold Pressley's game-winning attempt was off the mark.Villanova's three-game losing streak and four losses in five games nearly spiraled but Dwayne McClain's buzzer-beating baseline jumper — his second of the season and fifth in two years — gave the Wildcats a much-needed victory. "Villanova clinched its first Final Four berth since 2009 as the Wildcats took down the top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks 64-59 despite its coldest-shooting performance of the NCAA tournament.