DETROIT -- It has been six days since Villanova guard Scottie Reynolds made one of the biggest shots in school history. Even as the Wildcats went through final preparations for Saturday night's game against North Carolina in the national semifinals, they were still amazed at Reynolds' mad dash through the Pitt defense, which ended with his sinking an 8-footer over the outstretched arms of Gilbert Brown for the winning basket with a half-second left in a 78-76 victory. "I think there were a lot of amazing parts of that play," Villanova coach Jay Wright said. "If you asked me for the most, I think it was the fact that Scottie went into the defender's arms. I thought the defender did a great job. You don't want to foul there. You want to keep your hands straight up. You want to contest the shot. The guy did everything he was supposed to do." But Reynolds made the shot, and Villanova advanced to its first Final Four since winning the national championship in 1985. "The last-second shot is, I think, only to basketball," Wright said. "Even the Hail Mary pass, you've got to get the stop, run the play. In basketball, it happens so fast, and it can happen right as the horn blows. I don't think there's anything like that in sports. It's probably one of the biggest thrills in sports." It's certainly been a thrill for Reynolds, a junior from Herndon, Va. "It's been unbelievable," Reynolds said. "Everywhere I go, that's the only thing anybody talks about, especially back in Philadelphia. They had a pep rally, parade in my honor. They're going bonkers down there." Reynolds said he isn't sure where the shot will fall in terms of the greatest finishes in NCAA tournament history. "As far as the shots that I know in history -- the Danny Ainges, Tyus Edney -- we'll have to see where that adds up," Reynolds said. "Hopefully, it will go down in history. Hopefully, they'll say I won a championship, as well." Wright hopes his team is mentally focused after having nearly a week to celebrate the victory over Pitt. "I think we all are ready to play," Wright said. "It actually has worked out pretty nicely here. I don't know if it's because of how our game ended the way it did against Pitt, but we needed a couple of days to enjoy that and come down from that. I thought Tuesday, we didn't really have a great practice. I think we were still coming down from that. And then Wednesday, we started to pick it up again. And we had a great practice Wednesday, great practice yesterday. "I said to the guys today, 'We have one more day to get through. This is the challenge, where we stay focused. That's our challenge.'"