Say It Ain’t So!
Arizona AND Virginia both out of the NCAA tournament? In the first round? I had U of A losing to Virginia in the Sweet 16! The Buffalo Bulls and the UMBC Retrievers beat them? and My bracket’s shot to hell. How’s yours?
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The NCAA & the FBI
Not to diminish the assistant coaches named yesterday in this FB investigation of NCAA basketball bribery and corruption at some of its member schools, but if Louisville really does fire its 2-time NCAA Champion coach Rick Pitino he will be the biggest scalp the FBI’s gotten without even naming him yet. I’m inclined to think …
The blue-bloods fought to the last
If you didn’t see the last few seconds of the UNC-Kentucky game today, here they are: Carolina is up 73-70 with 11.1 seconds to go, Kentucky’s got the ball. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #Elite8 pic.twitter.com/GETD7qN2kG — NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 26, 2017 Not quite Grant Hill to Christian Laettner, but a pretty amazing finish nonetheless.
Again no Final Four for the Arizona team
This is getting really tiresome. Xavier beat Arizona tonight in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. In the last 2:40 of the game the Wildcats couldn’t stop the Musketeers and couldn’t score themselves as Xavier went on a 9-0 run and won 73-71. Arizona led 69-61 and couldn’t hold on. Arizona hasn’t been to the Final Four …
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Bracketology, anyone?
I set up a group for my fellow Dodgers fans to pick the winners of the NCAA Tournament. I’m picking Arizona to win it all (gotta go with the kind-of alma mater even though I didn’t get the degree from there). I’m opening it up to anyone who wants to participate. You’ll need to set …
Let the kids run the leagues
NBA News
I am not much of a pro basketball fan at any time of the year, not even during the playoffs. Nonetheless, tonight there were two compelling stories from the league. First, could the Golden State Warriors defeat the Memphis Grizzlies to get their 73rd win of the season in 82 games to pass the previous …
Wow. Mr. Laettner, siddown.
All basketball fans remember Grant Hill’s pass to Christian Laettner back in 1992, when Duke beat Kentucky. Now we’ve got another NCAA Championship game play to remember. This one’s gonna be seen in all the promos for the tournament from now on. The Villanova coach: “He takes those shots all the time and sometimes I …
Women’s Final Four Hoops
As expected, the UConn Huskies demolished the Oregon State Beavers in the first women’s semi-final game today. In the second game, Syracuse leads Washington 43-31 at halftime. Does anyone else find it odd and a little surprising that all four teams in the Women’s Final Four are coached by men?
Final Four Basketball
It looked like Villanova and North Carolina were playing D-II teams today. The results were a 44-point blowout by the Philadelphians and a much more modest but just as convincing 17-point win by the Chapel Hill residents. Oh well. There were some great photos of the action today. I don’t know who to pick in …