Away from tipoff at the final four in houston and weve got Live Team Coverage for you tonight. Alex hoff is on the nova campus. Lesley van arsdale is in houston. Lesley well start with you of course. A huge night for nova nation. Reporter oh, you know, natasha it doesnt get much bigger than this. We had the Vice President just pull up here a few minutes ago with his wife who is a villanova grad and the kids know how big this is. Theyre enjoying the moment but jay wright has done such a great job of keeping this group focused and, hey, they are ready for oklahoma. Oklahoma may have handed villanova their worst loss of the season back in december but theyre a Different Team now. Still, theyre not taking the sooners for granted. Theyre a great team. Theyre in the final four for a reason. They smacked us earlier in the year and weve continued to learn from that game. Dont take them for granted. What happened in hawaii and its a new game, a Different Team and were a Different Team. Go out t
And theyre just getting warmed up at this point. Final play of the first half, josh hart on fire. Hits another one of his threes notify veigh were 14point lead at the half. He shot a team high 23 points in the second half the cats just dominated. They won this 19551. Setting a final four record for largest margin of victory ever. But the players, theyre focused on the big prize. Happy we have one of these guys we just mack every shot. End of shot clock shots. We just through up and went in. Its crazy, you know, something you always dream abo about. So to have that, you know, be the night of the championship is crazy i hope it doesnt hit us until monday after monday. So were not thinking about it. Reporter now, ill tell you the players as you mentioned natasha they were very calm, very collected leaving the court. There was no celebration. Ill tell where you celebration is. Over on the villanova campus where we fine alex hoff. Reporter well you know we managed to escape some of that mad
We have big changes here coming on the way here first of all look at these first three headlines. High wind warning, freezing temperatures and wind chills near 20 degrees. Dont worry about going out tonight. It happens after midnight tonight thats where we see the big change happening. You step outsider right now sunshine out there temperatures have climbed up to 58 degrees. Light breeze about 5 miles an hour relative humidity at 49 . Look where this change is. Not really happening here. The rain is gone. Were rain free for awhile. But its this area of rain and snow will be pushing east here. That is this cold arctic front and the passage of this looks like its right about midnight. We can actually show you what time this will change changel actually occur. 9 00 oclock cloud dear here comes this line approaching the western suburbs by 11 00. Philadelphia by midnight, and then south jersey and delaware by about 1 00 a. M. So between 11 00 and 1 00, get a brief period of rain, maybe mixi
Eyewitness news. Brilliant performance by the while cats. Right now at 11 00 oclock, championship bound. Villanova rolls into the finals of the march madness with a recordbreaking win over oklahoma. And walking off the court it certainly looked like business as usual for the cats. Even after stomping the sooners by more than 40 points. Jay wrights squad is locked in on their ultimate goal a National Championship. Go nova check this out on the nova campus. A completely different story. Its rocking into the night right now as students celebrate their first trip to the title game since 1985. Its been a long time. Well deserved though. Good evening, everyone, im natasha brown. Villanova 9551 vick story at the largest in final four history on monday they will face the North Carolina tar heels who have just defeated the syracuse orange. Live Team Coverage for you tonight. Lots to talk about. Alex hoff on the campus where the party has only just gun. But lets begin in houston, texas where it
The colder air is still yet to come. Dave warren is going to explain it all for us just coming up in a bit. But first big congratulations to Villanova University the wildcats simply dominate thed oklahoma sooners tonight in the final four. It was the largest margin of victory ever in a final four game. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Im joyce evans. It really was domination from the start to finish, wasnt it tonight in houston. It was. It was almost as if villanova just couldnt miss. Heres a look at the final score the cats beat the oklahoma sooners by incredible 44 points. cheers . Wildcat fans on fire. Theyre watching their team take apart oklahoma. It comes down to one game now for villanova. Weve live team coverage. Sabina kuriakose spent the night on the campus of villanova a mid all the excitement but lets start with tom srendenchek whos in houston writ all went down. Tom . Reporter dawn, good evening. It was simply a staggering night here in sports as you guys said the largest m