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PHILADELPHIA -- Josh Hart has a saying at every Villanova practice, the kind that keeps his unbeaten team focused on the big picture of a potential championship season. We need to create habits that are going to make us successful in April, the sophomore guard tells the Wildcats. April? The only two games played in April are the ones that decide the national championship. The Wildcats have grandiose ambitions and closed out their latest win with a ferocious 6-minute stretch that showed why they are legitimate NCAA championship contenders. JayVaughn Pinkston had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Darrun Hilliard scored 23 points, keeping No. 7 Villanova undefeated with an 82-77 overtime win over Syracuse on Saturday. The Wildcats (11-0) never led until overtime and rallied from a 15-point hole to beat their former Big East rival. Hart hit a 3-pointer and Pinkston tied the score 69-all with 4.2 seconds left in regulation on a basket off a turnover. Hilliards two free throws 57 seconds into OT gave Villanova its first lead of the game 71-69. He was kicked in the face during a scrum and was on the bench when Daniel Ochefu made two free throws that pushed the lead to 74-71. Hilliard was tested for a concussion and not allowed back in the game. Pinkston scored a late bucket, then added a monster block that preserved the lead with 15 seconds left. Hart added 21 points in the most gutty win of the season for the Wildcats. Wed like to come in and win by 15, 20 every game, but its not going to happen, Hart said. We need these kind of games to prepare us for conference, prepare us for April. Rakeem Christmas and Michael Gbinije each scored 18 points for Syracuse (6-4). The Orange never trailed in regulation and the Wildcats could only get as close as one point late in the second half. Pinkstons three-point play with 1:14 left cut the lead to 63-62. Christmas followed with a three-point play off a goaltending call that stretched the lead to four and had the Orange in position to play spoiler for the second straight season -- Villanova was 11-0 last season when it lost at Syracuse. But Pinkston and Hilliard did enough down the stretch against an Orange team that was in foul trouble all game. The Orange had seven players with at least three fouls and three fouled out. The Wildcats were 26 of 32 from the free-throw line; Syracuse 13 of 18. Pinkston was clutch in the final minutes of regulation/OT, just as he was in a win last month against Michigan when he had the go-ahead basket and game-saving block in the final minute of a 60-55 victory. The Orange scored with ease in the first half against a Wildcats defence that failed to make any consistent stops. Gbinije and Trevor Cooney hit consecutive 3s for an 11-point lead. The Wildcats scored six points in 37 seconds to make it a 10-point game, but it was just a blip in an otherwise dismal half. We didnt come into the game with the focus that we should have, coach Jay Wright said. But, over a season, thats going to happen some games. Cooney, who scored 17 points, steadied the Orange with his third 3-pointer of the first half and helped them earn a 43-31 halftime lead. Syracuse just got by Louisiana Tech 71-69 on Sunday, leaving coach Jim Boeheim wondering about his team. While the Wildcats have their aim on March Madness, Boeheim refused to think about the NCAA tournament. Im not worried about that, he said. Im not even thinking about that. Im thinking about playing Colgate. March is a long ways away. TIP-INS Syracuse: Christmas is a Philly native and played for Academy of the New Church. ... The Orange have four nonconference losses for just the second time in Boeheims tenure, and hes in his 39th season. ... Kaleb Joseph had 10 points and 10 assists in 45 minutes. Villanova: The Wildcats trailed at halftime for the third time this season. They had not allowed more than 30 points in the first half this season. ... Hart left the game in the first half with a bloody nose and returned wearing a nameless No. 44 jersey instead of No. 3. He had gauze stuffed inside his nostrils. He made all three shots in the first half and scored 11 points. ... Villanova missed 7 of 8 3s in the first half. RIVALY RENEWED Syracuse and Villanova continued their home-and-home rivalry even though the Orange have played the last two seasons in the ACC. Always one of the hottest basketball tickets in town, 18,369 fans packed the Wells Fargo Center. The teams arent scheduled to play each other next season, though the possibility still remains of a matchup down the road. When Villanova plays someone else here, theyre not going to get 18,000, Boeheim said. UP NEXT Syracuse hosts Colgate on Monday. 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And with Andre Drummond dominating inside, that was more than enough for the Detroit Pistons to roll to their third straight victory.Meeks scored a season-high 34 points off the bench, shooting 9 for 11 from behind the arc, and Drummond added 17 points and 22 rebounds in a 109-86 win over the Orlando Magic.Meeks finished 11 for 16 overall in posting the highest-scoring game for any Pistons player this season.I just took what was open, Meeks said. Tonight it was me, but ... this is how the offence is supposed to be run. Maybe we had success one game and now were going to do it. Were playing well right now.Drummond, the NBAs No. 2 rebounder, sat out the final 14 minutes after coming within three rebounds of the leagues season high. He was the only Detroit starter to score in double figures.Reserve guard D.J. Augustin had 11 points and 10 assists for the Pistons (8-23), who have won three straight for the first time since February last season.Victor Oladipo led the Magic, who were also seeking a third straight win, with 16 points. Tobias Harris added 15 points and eight rebounds.After Meeks made all six of his 3s in the second quarter and scored 20 points in the period, the Pistons opened an 18-point lead in the third quarter. The Magic never again got the deficit under nine.Meeks first points came on a 3 early in the second quarter that cut Orlandos lead tto 25-24.ddddddddddddHis next field goal, another 3, put the Pistons ahead to stay at 31-29.I think when I hit one, I feel like Im hot, he said. I think a couple shots I knocked down and I tried to hit another one and it went in.The Magic (13-22) never recovered from Meeks big second quarter.He shot the light out, Harris said. It makes them even harder to guard because their big guys are rolling to the basket and weve got to try and stop them, then he keeps making 3s. Its tough.___VAN GUNDYS LAST STANDStan Van Gundy, who coached the Magic for five seasons, said his current position as president and head coach of the Pistons will prove to be his last job. Ive got five years and Ill be 60 and Ive promised my wife, seriously, (that he will retire). I wanted one more shot at it, but Ive got a great owner, a great situation with great tradition and I should be able to get it turned around in the time that hes given me. If I dont, I dont.TIP-INSPistons: It was the fourth time this season Drummond had 20 or more rebounds. ... After going 17 of 31 on 3s in a win at Cleveland on Sunday, the Pistons went 14 for 33 against Orlando, including 9 of 16 in the first half.Magic: Orlando beat the Pistons 107-93 in their previous meeting on Nov. 17 in Detroit. ... 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