Villanova Loses To #17 Ranked Marquette, 82-78

Filed under Game Recap on January 28th, 2012

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In Philadelphia on January 28th the Wildcats lost to the Golden Eagles in conference play, 82-78. Villanova kept it competitive, going into halftime up 46-36, but Marquette came out strong in the second half and took it away at the end.

A couple items of note about these two teams: Marquette was ranked higher in the RPI (#10 to #78). The Wildcats home court advantage should have been a factor, but the Golden Eagles were already streaking, winning 5 out of 5. The Wildcats had already seen the Golden Eagles this year and had lost to them 81-77.

Marquette paced themselves with a statistical advantage in offensive rebounding and turnover margin.

Marquette pulled down 17 big offensive rebounds compared to 13 by Villanova, and that created a shooting gap. There was a gap in turnovers, with 16 for the Golden Eagles and 20 for the Wildcats.

JayVaughn Pinkston led the losing effort for the Wildcats with 17 points on 50% shooting in 28 minutes.

MARQ Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A+ Jae Crowder 33 20 11 4 2 2 1 A+ D. Johnson-Odom 38 26 6 5 2 0 3 A Vander Blue 16 9 7 2 1 0 1 B Jamil Wilson 30 12 4 0 1 3 1 B- Davante Gardner 19 9 2 2 0 0 3 C- Derrick Wilson 9 0 2 1 0 0 0 D+ Todd Mayo 15 2 1 0 1 0 1 D+ Junior Cadougan 30 4 0 3 1 0 5 - Jamail Jones 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 - Juan Anderson 3 0 0 0 0 0 1

Nova Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Maurice Sutton 22 11 10 0 3 2 2 A Dominic Cheek 36 16 5 4 1 1 2 A James Bell 34 13 5 2 2 1 1 B+ J. Pinkston 28 17 5 2 1 1 3 B- Maalik Wayns 28 12 5 4 0 0 6 C Darrun Hilliard 6 3 1 1 0 0 0 C Mouphtaou Yarou 11 2 4 0 0 0 1 C- Ty Johnson 16 2 0 2 1 0 1 D+ Markus Kennedy 14 2 2 1 0 0 3 - Achraf Yacoubou 5 0 0 0 0 0 1

The Wildcats are now 10-12. They're now 13th in the Big East and their conference record falls to 3-7. Their record against RPI Top 50 teams (Marquette #10) falls to 1-8.

The Wildcats have got a matchup with Pittsburgh on the road on February 5th.

• The Wildcats have been unlucky 4 times this season in games decided by 5 or fewer points. Since 2006, Villanova has lost 24 close games.
• The top two scorers (JayVaughn Pinkston and Dominic Cheek) accounted for 42.3% of the points.
• James Bell has 4 straight double-digit point games.
• Maalik Wayns has 5 straight double-digit point games.
• Villanova has lost 100% of the time this season (0-4) after recording 78 or fewer total points.

• This marks the 21st 20-point game of Darius Johnson-Odom's career.
• Darius Johnson-Odom has 12 straight double-digit point games.
• Darius Johnson-Odom has led the team in scoring 12 times in 22 games this season.
• Jae Crowder set a career high with 4 three pointers.
• Jae Crowder has led the team in rebounding 13 times in 22 games this season.

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