Daily Tourney Talk (Sunday, Elite 8)

Elite 8, Sunday March 24, 2007 CBS TV Listings

11amPT/2pm ET: Road to the Final Four

11:40amPT/2:40pm ET: Oregon vs Florida

2:05pmPT/5:05pm ET: Georgetown vs North Carolina

9pmPT/midnight ET: College Gameday on ESPN


Random Tourney Thoughts and Notes

Phil Martelli revealed yesterday that Ohio State wanted to fly him out for an interview back when they were looking for a coach (when they hired Thad Matta). Marteli, the St Joe's head coach, revealed this when he was a guest on CSTV's Tourney Talk.

Three great stories by Pat Forde on ESPN.com
* The mysterious ways Oregon got Malik Hairston and Tajuan Porter, aka the Detroit Ducks or the Detroit Pipeline to Oregon
* Kentucky will take its time to replace Tubby Smith
* Billy Donovan's non-answer answer to the questions about the Kentucky opening. Donovan makes around $1.7m per year with two years left, and his agent is probably encouraging him to encourage a bidding war over his services.

CSTV Tourney Talk caller "Roy from Missouri" mentioned that a certain high profile coaches's wife was "seen" in Lexington very very recently (after Tubby left)

An attempt at comedy/satire on the latest college basketball news at the College Hoops Repor(t)

Tired of the negativity and bad news with college sports? How about some Good News in college sports?

Memo to the NCAA: Time to go to six fouls. Why have the best players sit on the bench? People buy tickets and tune in to watch in order to see the best players on the court, not on the bench. Come on NCAA, wake up and smell reality for a change :-)

The state of Tennessee did well in this tourney: Three teams in the Sweet 16, and almost two in the Elite 8 (if it wasn't for the Green double-travel cha-cha-cha basket).

What exactly was Sleazo Auriemma doing there pushing and picking a fight with his assistant?

I'm sure you've seen the Dick Vitale DiGiorno pizza commercials, Coach Dirty K selling insurance, and Roy Williams talking about dimes and Coke. Well, did you catch a more casual, less buttoned-down Jim Nantz selling TVs at Circuit City? (unless of course that's his day job...)

Tim Floyd wants the USC vs UCLA rivarly to become as big as the Duke vs North Carolina. While it is certainly premature to say that, the two most high profile recruits of 2007 (not necessarily the best two) have ended up at USC (OJ Mayo) and UCLA (Kevin Love). USC also has the top player of 2008 (Brandon Jennings) and the top post-graduate player of 2007 (Devon Jefferson; if he is eligible and if he shows up; as you may recall he was supposed to go to UNLV in 2005-2006, and USC in 2006-2007. I'm not sure what his academic status is, he may be eligible for the NBA Draft as well).