Arcidiacono ready to move on from punch

It has been quite an eventful February for Villanova's Ryan Arcidiacono, and we're not just talking about the fact that the sixth-ranked Wildcats are unbeaten for the month under the floor leadership of their junior point guard and that he reached a season high of 20 points against Providence.

It hasn't been just filling a stat sheet, either.

Most of the college basketball world has seen the tape of Arcidiacono's getting hit in the forehead by the lower right forearm of Seton Hall's Sterling Gibbs on Monday during a struggle for a loose ball in an 80-54 win for the Wildcats (24-2, 11-2 Big East). The two players had a Twitter exchange after the game, with Gibbs apologizing and Arcidiacono telling him, "We're good."

"I thought it might have been one of my teammates diving for a loose ball," Arcidiacono said Friday after practice for Saturday's game at Marquette. "After seeing the video, you saw it was intentional. But then I saw him tweet at me so I just responded that emotions get the best of you sometimes, so it was good."

He added that he immediately responded to Gibbs' apology so that "we can all move on from this."

Seton Hall suspended Gibbs for two games as a result of the incident. Arcidiacono said he wasn't injured other than a small cut on his forehead and noted, "It actually didn't hurt as bad as it looked."

The Wildcats take a seven-game winning streak into the Marquette rematch in front of a sellout crowd at BMO Harris Bradley Center. In their first meeting, the Golden Eagles' Matt Carlino flipped over Arcidiacono under the basket early in the second half and landed on his head.

Although he later went back into the game, Carlino, Marquette's top scorer, underwent tests that revealed a concussion after the team returned to Milwaukee. He has missed the last three games for the Golden Eagles (11-14, 3-10) but is expected to play Saturday.

Carlino told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel after the game that he thought it was a "dirty play" that resulted in his injury. Arcidiacono said he was trying only to draw the foul and that "in no way was I trying to hurt him."

Cats land recruit. Villanova received its first oral commitment for its freshman Class of 2016 Friday when Omari Spellman, a 6-foot-8, 270-pound power forward, announced on Twitter that he had pledged to the Wildcats.

Spellman, a four-star recruit who attends the MacDuffie School in Granby, Mass., is rated the No. 17 player in his class by ESPN.com and No. 24 by Rivals.com. ESPN.com rates him as the nation's fourth-ranked power forward.

Spellman chose Villanova over Connecticut, Arizona, UCLA, Virginia, Ohio State, and Indiana. He told ESPN.com he decided on Villanova after seeing its game against Georgetown two weeks ago at the Wells Fargo Center with his mother.