NCAA Tournament

Here are two views of David McCormack’s thunderous posterizing dunk against Villanova

Villanova did its best to chip away at Kansas’ lead in Saturday’s NCAA Tournament Final Four game, but the Wildcats must have felt like Sisyphus pushing that bolder up a hill.

Each time the Wildcats made a run, the Jayhawks simply responded with one of their own.

Nova, which trailed by 19 in the first half, had the lead down to 10 with 10:32 to play, but Kansas forward David McCormack threw down a posterizing dunk to regain momentum.

Here are two looks at the dunk:

This is random, but Aflac’s Twitter account was clearly impressed by that play:

KU fans, who called McCormack “Dave,” loved the dunk and many thought a foul should have been called.

Kansas won 81-65, and McCormack scored a game-high 25 points.

This story was originally published April 2, 2022 at 7:19 PM with the headline "Here are two views of David McCormack’s thunderous posterizing dunk against Villanova."

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