College Basketball Saturday Roundup

Another fantastic Duke-UNC game last night. The only thing that could have made it better was for Dick Vitale and his sweat glands not announcing it. Did anybody see this guy?? You would think that he would know better than to wear a blue shirt when announcing a game like this. Isn't there somebody at ESPN that could have told him this?

Anyhow, great game. Back and forth. Duke came back in the 2nd half to make a game of it. The Cameron Crazies were crazy. And Carolina pulled it out in the end. Fun to watch. Very intense. #1 vs. #5. Lived up to all of the billing! There's nothing like a great college basketball game between 2 teams like Duke-UNC. Tyler Hansborough had 16-15, and earned every one of those buckets and rebounds, and Danny Green had 18-8 for Carolina.

Is it me or does Hansborough flop a little like Brian Cardinal once did for the Boilers?

ESPN showed speedo guy. Just a dude in a speedo dancing around like only somebody in a speedo could. Then they went to commercial. Dan Shulman had to issue an apology about the way he was dancing and the video that ESPN had just shown the country. It's sad that we, as a nation, has come to this. I dont' even know where to start on this so I'm not going to try. That's just sad. If there was anybody out there that was watching the game and was subsequently offended by a dude in a speedo, they need to have their head checked. Unreal

Memphis won again last night. The victory puts John Calipari right next to Adolph Rupp by being the only two coaches to win 30 games in 3 consecutive seasons. On the surface this makes Calipari look like one of the great coaches in history. But look a little deeper and see that he did it against the worst competition in D-1 and the picture isn't so rosy. When the next best competition in the league is the UAB Blazers, coached by none other than the worst coach in NCAA basketball, Mike Davis, not such a great feat. Although I'm not certain about it, I'm pretty sure that one of the requirements for Memphis basketball players is that that they're not allowed to go to class. I think I heard that somewhere?

No, I didn't actually hear that, I just made that up. But would anybody be surprised?

The Boilers wrap up their regular season this afternoon at Michigan. They need to take care of business and end the regular season on a high note. After the way they played at Ohio State earlier this week. They need some solid momentum going into the Big 10 Tourney.

Everybody keeps talking about how Kentucky is a shoe-in for the NCAA tourney. Am I the only one out here that remembers that they lost to Vandy by about 50 a couple of weeks ago? Sure, they're playing some better basketball right now, but just because they're Kentucky, doesn't give them a free pass to the tourney. I'd much rather see a George Mason type team make the tourney than a Kentucky. The Wildcats scored 11 in the first half of that game. I'm sorry, but no team that scores 11 in any half of any game does not deserve to make the tourney!!

Another example of this is Ohio State. They in no way deserve to make the tourney. I think they've beat 2 teams in the RPI top 100. They have a .500 record in the very weak Big 10, and they have 1 signature win, against my Boilers, and not much else. Just becaue they made the Championship game last year doens't mean they get a free pass.

Go Boilers!!