Weekend Rewind

Quotes of the Week

Tom Brennan: It's ironic that Rick Majerus lost the national championship to a guy named Tubby. Explanation: Word play on the word Tubby, which happens to be the name of the Kentucky coach, Orlando "Tubby" Smith

Rick Majerus: "The Beauty and the Beast": When describing a video clip where he was trying to defend Stacey Dales in an attempt to explain an offensive play by Notre Dame or DePaul. Majerus was wearing a very large shirt but the shirt was about 3-4 sizes smaller than him, so he looked even bigger in size.

Greg Oden: He seriously considered redshirting when he got injured earlier in the season. He said that on Outside the Lines last week.

Doug Gottlieb: Duke on the bubble? This was even before they got manhandled by Maryland.


Coaches Corner

Calling a time-out can be a dangerous thing. Just ask Ernie Kent of Oregon!

Two-minute lesson: During ESPN's Gameday Tubby Smith and Jay Bilas gave us an overview of Tubby's Ball Line Defense

Poor Bruce Weber: He just can't get a break against Indiana. This time around a home-cooking timing "error" may have cost him a road win at Assembly Hall. Not only they took Eric Gordon away, they just stole a W from him! Ouch!

It is refreshing to see a coach flat out admit he made a mistake. Thad Matta said he screwed up by not taking Greg Oden out of the game late in the 1st half of the Purdue game.

Why on earth is UCLA playing West Virginia? Well think about it: Ben Howland was the coach at Pitt, he played in the Backyard Brawl with West Virginia when he was at Pitt, so...

Pete Gillan seeks Validation: His recruits are doing very well this year at Virginia, and Ben Howland is using a Gillanesque "early and often" timeout taking strategy.


Media Segment

How hard is it to learn how to properly pronounce the name "Vasquez", especially if you are going to repeat it three dozen times during the broadcast? Yet another sign that Tim Brando is clueless

Four weeks until Selection Sunday airs on CBS, and the brain trust at ESPN analyzes all the brackets all night long

Please plan this game for next year and make sure it is on national TV: VMI at North Carolina. Why? Because they will get close to breaking a number of NCAA single-game scoring records!

A certain ESPN anchor who shall remain unnamed said that Washington State got closer to UCLA after UCLA lost to West Virginia. One minor detail: West Virginia is not a member of the Pac-10. Just a thought...


Everything else

The power of the 2006 class If you needed yet another validation point that the 2006 freshman class is one of the best ever, look at this stat: 21 freshmen have scored over 30 points in a single game this year. The last two to join the club? DJ Augustin of Texas and Chase Budinger of Arizona.

ESPN is apparently expanding its ranking and rating services. Steve Lavin ranked Oregon cheerleaders as #1 in the Pac-10.

Definition of a slugfest: The second half of Stanford at Washington. The once upon a time run and gun Pac-10 is down to just three run and gun teams: Arizona, Oregon and Washington, so that's just six run-and-games out of 90 conference games.

Hofstra beats George Mason once again. But they can't change the 2006 at-large bid selection.

North Carolina scores 100+ to honor the 1982 national championship team in attendance and honored during Saturday's game

Memo to Jerry Collangelo: Time to look for a new Team USA head coach.

Winning streaks: Florida and Memphis. They could both finish the regular season undefeated. But they can't both finish the season undefeated :-)

Recruiting mumblings and a TV review of the latest edition of Generation Next at Recruiting Wars