PHILADELPHIA (AP) Cam Whitmore only touched a basketball a few times over seven weeks because of a broken thumb that delayed the start of his career that already seemed set as a brief one at Villanova.

Once he got his shot, Whitmore used his size, athleticism and skill that made him one of the top recruits out of high school to spark a Wildcats team in sore need of his intangibles.

"Honestly, I'm shocked," coach Kyle Neptune said. "Normal human beings, they would have been just completely discombobulated."