Dick Jerardi: You have to Love the look of UCLA freshman

March 24, 2008

REMEMBER THE LOOK Greg Oden had during the tournament last year? I see the same look on UCLA freshman Kevin Love's face, the one that says, "While I'm here, I may as well win six games.''

Love has been crazy good in two games - 39 points, 20 rebounds and 11 blocks. And did you see those two fadeaway jumpers at the end of the Texas A & M escape?

Love is the most fundamentally sound college big man since Tim Duncan. He is sound in everything he does on both ends of the floor. And, with 16 teams left, there certainly is no better center/point guard combo than Love and the supersonic Darren Collison.

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Villanova did not look at all like an NCAA Tournament team when its five-game losing streak topped out with that loss to Saint Joseph's. But the Wildcats got better and had some very good wins down the stretch. VU may very well have been the last team invited and it was hard to like its chances when it down big against clueless Clemson Friday. But the Wildcats made that happen.

They looked great yesterday in a wire-to-wire win over Siena. Now, they really should not be able to beat No. 1 seed Kansas in the Sweet 16 Friday in Detroit. But who would have imagined them in that spot in the first place? Enjoy the ride. The city went from potentially no teams in the NCAA to having one of 16 teams with a chance at a championship.

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