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00:00This is Eye of the Storm, a St. John's video series presented by Noble.

00:05Want to look ahead to the Villanova matchup on Saturday.

00:07What are the specific matchup challenges that could give the Johnnies issues

00:12at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday night?

00:16Nova's a good team. You called them a top-four team in the conference.

00:19What challenges do they present for St. John's here?

00:21You know, the point guard, Lewis, he's super athletic.

00:24He's super long. He gets in the lead.

00:27You know, a lot of what they do is based off his penetration.

00:31And they have shooters.

00:33You know, they usually have three or four guys who can shoot threes.

00:37You know, to me, it's going to be covering the three-point line.

00:42And they did, after a shaky start at Creighton, they did a great job defending the three.

00:46I believe Creighton started 6 of 10 and then was something like maybe 3 of 15 the rest of the game.

00:52So they really defended the three well against Creighton after a bad start.

00:56And that's, you know, that's going to be big here because Villanova likes to shoot a lot of threes.

01:02They have guys who make threes.

01:03Bryce Lindsey is a terrific three-point shooter.

01:05Tyler Perkins makes threes.

01:07Lewis doesn't take as many and hasn't shot at great, but he can make threes.

01:13You know, Matt Hodge, they have guys who can shoot threes.

01:15And that, to me, is, you know, if you could hold them under 10-11, I think St. John's wins.

01:20Let's see.