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The No. 3-ranked and defending national champion Villanova Wildcats look to stay undefeated when they open play in the Gildan Charleston Classic beginning Thursday.Villanova -- which opened the season with a 40-point home win against Lafayette and a clutch three-point road win at No. 15 Purdue on Monday -- will face Western Michigan at 11:30 a.m. ET (ESPN2). The winner of that game will advance to Fridays semifinal round against either UTEP or Wake Forest.Preseason All-America candidate Josh Hart paced the Wildcats with 24 points in the win against the Boilermakers. Hart has scored 37 points in the two victories.Like last season, the Wildcats are receiving contributions up and down the roster anchored by Hart. In addition, guard Jalen Brunson (13.5 points per game), Kris Jenkins (12 ppg), and Mikal Bridges (11.5 ppg) have all been solid. Bridges and Darryl Reynolds have combined to pull down 27 rebounds.Its November -- weve got to get a lot better, Villanova head coach Jay Wright said after the win at Purdue. We really had trouble stopping them on the interior. You just cant simulate that kind of size and skill in practice.Bridges has really stepped forward as a key sixth man thus far.Kris and Josh did it. Kyle Lowry did it, Wright said. We have had a lot of guys in that position. They have had a lot of success. Mikal has watched it all even before he came here and hes really smart. As soon as I told him that hes playing starter minutes, he gets it. Hes really humble. I need to look at minutes, but hes going to be in the game a lot. When the game is on the line, as well.Western Michigan will enter this tournament with a 1-1 record. It recorded a 90-74 win over Marygrove College and then most recently fell 77-60 at Oakland Monday night.Guard-forward Tucker Haymond scored 20 points against Marygrove and added 12 more against Oakland.They were getting rebounds and getting out on fast breaks off of our missed shots and they got some really good looks on those fast breaks, Western Michigan head coach Steve Hawkins said after the loss at Oakland. We are going to have some bumps and bruises along with the way with the team that we have this season, but its the response those that I am really looking at.Next up is a matchup against the No. 3 team in the country.Were going to look towards the next possession and get ready to take on Villanova, the national champions, on Thursday, Hawkins said.Western Michigan 7-foot sophomore center Seth Dugan swept a career-best 15 rebounds against Oakland. 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Tevez, who has had conflicts with coaches in the past, has not been called up since Sabella was named coach in 2011. Argentina boasts Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, Sergio Aguero, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Angel Di Maria. Once used as a platform to reinvigorate hopes of national selection or pitch for higher honours, the Duleep Trophy has gradually steeped towards insignificance. The 2013-14 final was washed out with just a handful of overs bowled because of incessant rain and a wet outfield. Allotting Kochi the match during the peak monsoon season spoke of the tournaments irrelevance, one that had become synonymous over time because national players were either unavailable or simply did not have an incentive to play in a busy cricket calendar.Now, ahead of the tournaments return to India domestic calendar following a years break, owing to Indias busy T20 season, ESPNcricinfo looks at the talking points that could add significance to the 2016 edition to be played in Greater Noida from August 23 to September 14.Pink ball Test The tournament has been revived by trialling the pink ball under lights before hosting a day-night Test. While the latest innovation has been ruled out for the home series against New Zealand, the success of this seasons Duleep Trophy could be a significant step towards hosting Indias inaugural pink ball Test in the near future.Pitches Though cricket in India is usually played with the SG ball, the Duleep Trophy will be played with a pink Kookaburra, which requires a specific set of conditions to last. The pitch for the inaugural day-night Test between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide last year had to have a more-than-normal coating of grass to help delay the wear and tear of the ball, and it resulted in exaggerated lateral movement. Another concern with hosting a floodlit match, especially in India, is dew. These two factors will be closely monitored.However, maintaining a stipulated amount of green on the surface will also bring with it the prospect of losing its home advantage, which could be as big a challenge for the Indian team as any. Therefore, the tournament could provide a marker on how surfaces of varying degree behave with the pink ball under lights.Vote of top players The proposal to play the tournament with the pink ball was ratified mainly because it was understood in June that the countrys top cricketers would be available for the entire duration of the tournament. It was also to act as preparation for the upcoming record 13 Tests at home, making it Indias longest home season. The late addition of the two Twenty20s against West Indies in Florida on August 27 and 28 effectively rules out that possibility.Although Virat Kohli has publicly backed the idea to play day-night Tests, he has never featured in a match involving the pink ball. Only two members of Indias squad of 17 in the West Indies - M Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara - will play in the Duleep Trophy. Shardul Thakur, who is also in the Test squad, is set to fly out to Australia to join the A team as a replacement for Barinder Sran.Challenger-style format The tournament itself has undergone a transformation, wiith the inter-zonal format, the squads for which were named by a selection committee nominated for the respective zones, replaced by three teams picked by the national selectors.dddddddddddd In 2002-03, the BCCI fielded five teams - three squads selected from performers in the elite division of the Ranji Trophy and two from the plate division. A seasons experiment later, the tournament went back to the zonal format, with the addition of a foreign team to make it a six-team event. After doing away with the overseas teams participation in 2008-09, the format was once again changed from a league-cum-final arrangement to a knockout structure, as was the format when the tournament was conceptualised in 1961-62.Players to watch out for Suresh Raina: A certainty in Indias limited-overs squad for a majority of the last four years, Raina suddenly finds himself at the crossroads. Troubles with the short ball and 68 runs in five innings, including two ducks, during the home ODIs against South Africa led to his axe from the format. An underwhelming World T20 campaign in March-April led to his ouster from the shortest format too. Since 2015, his T20I average and strike rate of 21.33 and 124.27 respectively are significantly lower than his career numbers. Therefore, Rainas distance than proximity to the Indian squad at the moment, after being left out of the USA-bound T20I squad, is intriguing. As captain, his move will be closely watched too.Kuldeep Yadav: Ten first-class games across two seasons may not trigger excitement, but Kuldeep belongs to a rare breed of left-arm wristspinners. He has the ability to impart revs and extract turn from docile surfaces, like he did during the Syed Mustaq Ali T20s earlier this year. In the IPL too, with their season on the line, Kolkata Knight Riders picked him over Piyush Chawla, and he delivered. The success of Lakshan Sandakan on turning tracks at home against Australia has re-emphasised the values of a left-arm wristspinner. Particularly interesting to watch will be his approach on surfaces that are likely to be grassy for the longevity of the pink ball.Cheteshwar Pujara and Gautam Gambhir: Pujara finds himself in a middle-order maze, after being unable to capitalise on a string of starts. With Kohli emphasising often on a horses-for-courses approach, big runs in the Duleep Trophy could reinforce Pujaras credentials in Indias top order. Gautam Gambhir, meanwhile, finds himself in a tougher position, having to compete with not two but three specialist openers in Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul, all of whom are in the midst of a merry-go-round like situation. Therefore, the Delhi captain, who has tweaked his stance and trigger movements after working closely with Justin Langer in Western Australia last year, has his task cut out. ' ' '