Creighton at No. 4/4 Villanova

When: Sunday, 7 p.m.

Where: The Pavilion (Villanova, Pa.).

Television: Fox Sports 1 (Joe Davis & Jim Spanarkel)

Radio: Villanova IMG Network: 610 AM WTEL/Sirius 84/villanova.com and TuneIn Radio (Ryan Fannon & Whitey Rigsby)

Series: Villanova leads 5-2

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VILLANOVA, Pa. - The Villanova Wildcats resume BIG EAST action in a rare Sunday evening battle when they host Creighton (9-11 overall, 0-7 BIG EAST) at the Pavilion.

Part of Sunday night's festivities will include Villanova's first "White Out" of 2014-15. In addition, members of the coaching staffs will take part in the Coaches vs. Cancer "Suits and Sneakers" effort to help raise awareness in the fight against cancer.

The Wildcats (17-2 overall, 4-2 BIG EAST) were upended on Monday night by Georgetown 78-58, a contest in which they fell behind early and were never able to wrest control back from the Hoyas. Georgetown scored the most points by a Wildcats opponent this season and became only the second team to connect on better than 50 percent of its field goal opportunities (the first was Lehigh on opening night in Allentown.)

"We weren't able to get over that hump of the 12 and 14-point deficit," stated Ryan Arcidiacono, who led the Wildcats with 16 points at the Verizon Center. "They always seemed to get an offensive rebound or one big play."

In fact, Georgetown out-rebounded Villanova 34-26, only the fourth time in 19 games that a foe owned an advantage over the Wildcats on the backboards.

"We've had some games like that where we've gotten out of what we did and found ways to win it," noted Wright. "I think we got into that mode offensively a little bit (at Georgetown). We played a team we couldn't overcome. That's why I credit Georgetown.

"We've done that before - gotten a little sloppy offensively and overcome it. (Georgetown) was too good. The atmosphere there was too good to overcome. We were sloppy, even defensively, missing some assignments."

Wright has liked his team's approach to practice this week as they get set to face a Creighton squad that handed Villanova its only two losses in league play in 2013-14 by a combined 49 points. That included a 96-68 loss at the Wells Fargo Center in which the Bluejays drained 21 3-point field goals.

"(Georgetown) was our 19th game and we've been good in a lot of games," stated Wright. "I think we learned from that and now we have to prepare for a very well-coached Creighton team that has been a play or two away in its Big East games, has a great win over Oklahoma, and took it to us twice last year. We know this will be another, tough Big East battle."

The Wildcats are among a cluster of BIG EAST teams bunched near the top of the league standings. The Hoyas, Providence and DePaul sit atop the conference at 5-2 while VU is at 4-2. Wright expects that kind of tight competition to be a season-long theme.

"I love the league," he stated. "I think we have something really special. Everywhere you go in this league, basketball is the main sport. All the decisions are made about basketball. These are basketball crowds in basketball cities. It's really special and the teams are all good. It's not a surprise.

"We talked about this last year - any team can win this league in any year. Whoever finishes tenth the year before can win the league the next year. There isn't any other league in the country like that."

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