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Acaden Lewis heats up in 2nd half as Villanova takes down Old Dominion

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Published25 Nov 2025

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Radnor, PA: As the entire nation prepares for the Thanksgiving holiday, college basketball continues. On Tuesday night, we had an interesting battle as the Villanova Wildcats took on Old Dominion Monarchs from Finneran Pavilion. Villanova comes into the game on a 4-game winning streak after a win over LaSalle, while Old Dominion comes into the game 3-4 & off a loss to Drexel.

Villanova forward Duke Brennan would be out for the game with a sprained right ankle that happened in their win over LaSalle last week.

Lineup:

How the game went:
Old Dominion would score the game’s first 6 points before Villanova responded with a 5-0 run. The Wildcats took their first lead at 10-8 on a basket from Zion Stanford. Defense would be the story early on in the 1st half as Villanova took a 16-15 lead. There would be a stretch where both Villanova & Old Dominion would have made 6 three pointers between the two teams. Villanova would take a 28-25 lead with 5:46 left in 1st half. The 3 pointers would be falling for both teams. Villanova would take a 40-36 lead into halftime; neither team would have a lead higher than 6.  Going into the 2nd half, could see some of the defensive battle we had. Villanova would begin the 2nd half with a 7-0 run for a 47-36 lead.

One of the plays in the second half from Tafara Gapare with the basket & Foul

The Monarchs would stop the run & then the Wildcats would respond. Old Dominion would show the same fight they had in the first half as they cut the lead down to 9 at 69-60 with 7:06 left.

During one of the timeouts in the 2nd half, Philadelphia Eagles RB Saquon Barkley would be in attendance

There would be a couple of times in the second half that Villanova would get the lead up to 16 on 5 separate times, with the last one being 68-52 with 10:31 left. Old Dominion would keep fighting back with the 3 pointers, but it would not be enough. Acaden Lewis would heat up in the second half with 12 points after scoring 8 in the first half.

As the final horn went off, Vilanova would hold on for a 89-75 win to extend their winning streak to 5 games

 

Postgame:

Villanova Coach Kevin Willard about small lineup:

Villanova Coach Kevin Williard about being in tight games to prep for conference play

Final Numbers:

What is next:
Villanova will now head into Big 5 Battle as they take on Temple on Dec 1 to see who will play Penn for the Big 5 Title on December 6 at Xfinity Mobile Arena. As for Old Dominion, they will regroup for battle against William & Mary on Nov 30.