The second half of Eric Dixon is led by Villano by the USC to achieve Barage, in the semi-finals

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Las Vegas-Najju is the most interesting match in the first four days of inaugural basketball crown in college, games between the two most respected stamps on the field in the field in the field Vilanova and USCBoth of the Power Conference Conference, distilled to this: less than a minute remained, the result was tied, the best player from each team gave one opportunity with the ball in their hands and a guaranteed financial award on the line.

From his position on the right wing, the Villan Star Eric Dixon thought and questioned his duel of isolation with Rashaun AgeeA spring big man who poured 22 points on Thursday night. He aimed his step as the clock melted under 30 seconds, weighing the decision to ride or shoot. He pumped up to test Agee’s determination, knowing well that the USC, just like any team that Dixon faced this season, is asking for their players not to fall for their smart craziness. But Agee Bit, Dixon jumped and the judge was blowing a whistle. Dixon made one free throw to give Wild cats Management with one point.

At the opposite end of the court, Trojans turned to a leading shooter Desmond Clauda guard who was calm most of this quarterfinal match. Claude split two pilot defenders brilliantly before distorting his body to create a slider of the universe on the edge, where his right hand schedule turned in and out, hanging above the cylinder for a moment before Dixon-Naravan-Narat-Narat-I could turn away: Villanova 60, USC 59. Finally.

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“He is a great player,” said USC chief coach Eric Musselman when asked about Dixon during a press conference after the game. “He knows how to pull out of offenses. We should have stayed down on a false pump, and then obviously the last point of the game was excluded from a false pump. But he is a leading scorer of all Villan’s time for a reason.”

That fake and the following free throws proved to be a difference on the night when they needed all 28 points that Dixon had given them that they were overcome atypically first and ineffective cracking from their wings Poplar and Jordan Longinowho achieved only five of the 22 field targets. Dixon deleted the deficit of his team unanimously in 10 points by recessing in a 13-2 personal race during a beautiful section that shared another stanza. He scored 24 points after halftime, including seven of Nina Villan’s final, to launch Wildcats in a semi-final match with UCF on Saturday afternoon. Nebraska will be tangled with the Boise state on the other side of the carrier.

In order for Wildcats to get so far away, they overcame the unsuccessful start of the game on Thursday, in which their offensive fire power was unexplained near the middle of the first half. A series of five consecutive goals scored on the field that Villans pushed to early lead at a time at once the place of the alarming choir of the clan, grain and interpretation of the misses, which enabled USC to take control of the game. Wildcats broke through 12 of his last 14 shots to finish half, including nine misconceptions outside the arch, as their narrow advantage went into a seven -point deficit. If it had not been for some timely scoring from the sheaps, which scored 14 of the 27 points of his team in the opening half, Villan could pack bags on a break.

“They accepted it in the first half,” said temporary chief coach Mike Nardi.

How much competitive juice of Nardi could squeeze from this group was a legitimate question from the moment of the moment Villanova accepted the invitation to the basketball crown, especially after Kyle Neptune. It was generally assumed that one of the main goals here in Las Vegas was to ensure that the Eric Dixon Center, a five -year -old player, had the opportunity to break the record of all time at the school held for almost 30 years Kerry Kittles, all the time of the wild poppy. But after the case was checked on Tuesday night from the list against Colorada-Dixon in the first half, Kittles went with another pump jumper-it was fair to wonder how much the team would always play the passion during the regular season.

When Wildcats returned to the floor because of the heating of the second half, Nardi approached where Dixon launched basic jumpers with heating pads wrapped around the lower back. Nardi told Dixon that he hesitated too much during the first half, especially in a situation with a victory or house, and encouraged his star to “shoot them, sleep on the streets, take your shooters,” and make sure he doesn’t complain about how the second half was going.

This was followed by an alien attack from Dixon, in which he exploded for 24 of his 33 points in the second half in the shot of 8-Z-12. He scored seven points in less than two minutes after the media time under the age of 16 and transferred the USC lead to five. Then, after the basket from Agee stopped the bleeding for a moment, he scored seven more points in less than three minutes to push Villanova in front of 8:32. The barrage of initial turns and muscular schedules has increased with five free throws and three 3-pointer, including one of the heavy varieties. Dixon tried more shots than other teammates in the second half.

“It was amazing,” the keeper of the point Jhammir Cick he said about that burma. “Just the way he can achieve the ball and make plays for others, it’s definitely amazing. But that’s something I’m used to.”

Because of this, there was absolutely no question of who would have the ball in his hands for the most important possession of Villan. Nardi knew that, the Trojans knew that, everyone knew it in MGM Grand Garden Arena. The only uncertainty was which Dixon would choose from which part of the field would release him.

The answer, backwards, looked quite obvious: he grabbed the ball on the right wing and inserted Agee into a cat and mouse play. She was just one winner.

“I’m just trying to read the body language,” Dixon said when asked about the final sequence. “And I’m also thinking about past estates and what they did. (Agee) was aggressive – rightly – playing good, heavy defense. I just tried to get it off my feet.

“And I got it.”

Michael Cohen covers college football and college basketball for Fox Sports. Follow it on Twitter @Michael_cohen13.

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