ESPN News will be carrying the John Calipari introduction to the Big Blue Nation tomorrow, Wednesday at 9:30am eastern time! Warm up your VCRs and DVRs if you are not going to be near a TV!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
What we want to see happen at the Final Four
Our Wish List for the Final Four is simple, and it coincides with our Predictions for the Four:
+ Michigan State to beat the UConn Cheaters, Woman Batterers, and Laptop Thieves
+ The winner of Villanova and North Carolina to win the National Championship!
Both Nova and UNC would make for great championship stories, and they both play a fun style of play that moves basketball forward, instead of backwards (Izzo). So, whoever wins that game will be our favorite to win the national championship.
This and that from the NCAA tournament
Here's a few things we forgot to mention during this year's NCAA tournament!
Something very rare happened in the first round game between Temple and Arizona State. A TV time-out was skipped because no one was fouling and no one threw the ball out of bounds. So when it was time for the next TV timeout, they took them back to back to make up for it. If you are not the type that watches the clock for 16, 12, 8, and 4, you will probably not have noticed!
And speaking of ASU, the candidate for player of the year that had the biggest tumble was Arizona State's James Harden. He was simply invisible when the games mattered, he disappeared in the Pac-10 conference tournament final, a victory that would mean a lot for the ASU program, and he disappeared in both NCAA tournament games. This was the biggest slide among the player of the year candidates for sure!
I find this Dookie irony very ...ironic. For someone so religious like Coach K, who even prays and crosses himself publicly before every game, he seems to have no trouble coaching a team named the Devils. Yet another example of Coach K double-speak and bigotry :-)
And more Dookies. I always wondered why while I found Mike Gminski at times boring, I did not dislike him even though he is a Dookie. It turns out, the G-Man played at Duke before Coach Ratzilla arrived, so he wasn't infused with the crapola that Ratzilla infuses everything he touches. So that explains why I do not dislike the G-Man!
Don't forget the five-year rule! UConn won in 1999 and 2004, and both started out West. One thing that throws off this pattern? This year they played at a different arena, an arena that didn't exist in 2004 :) So there is hope!
I'm sure I am not the only one who got tired of everyone talking about Ty Lawson's v*g*n*! Oops, I mean, toe :-)
Monday, March 30, 2009
Seth Curry, you are an idiot!
We praised Seth Curry for leaving the university of no-evolution, but sadly, his new destination is about as sad as his original school. He has decided to transfer to ...Duke! Yikes!
Welcome to being glued on the bench for the rest of your life Seth Curry, because you are never going to play floor-slapping defense like some of the other stiffs and zombies that Coach Ratzilla has on his bench.
Seth Curry, you are an idiot!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Teams with the most Final Four trips
Today's victory by North Carolina was record breaking. Not only did this gave them 100 NCAA wins, tying Kentucky (with the taken-out wins factored in), but also gave them their 18th trip to the Final Four. Here is the leader board:
1. North Carolina 18
2. UCLA 17
3. Duke 14
4. Kansas and Kentucky 13
Carolina had the lead, but Ben Howland's three back-to-back Final Fours boosted UCLA, but now UNC is back on top. Similarly, Bill Self's 2008 "lucky" national championship run caught them up with Kentucky at #4.
North Carolina wins a game with defense (?!?!?!) but almost has a Georgetown moment again
It was the 2007 Elite 8 when North Carolina was supposed to be going to the Final Four, and they were up 10 on Georgetown in the Elite 8, with just minutes left. But UNC had one of their patented meltdowns and Georgetown managed to get to the Final Four.
A similar thing happened today, later in the second half when UNC had their patented meltdown, but this type they were able to stem the tide and cautiously coast to Detroit.
But biggest shocker however was how UNC won the game. In the first half, it was defense and more defense. Defense from UNC even with Hansbro in early foul trouble? Oh my!
In the second half, UNC seemed to be happy with Griffin scoring on the inside so that Lawson would run it back on offense and cancel out the just-scored bucket with a two, or an outside three. A more "traditional" UNC approach to defense :)
Izzo State steals an NCAA bid with slugfest!
Izzo State managed to make their dream come true by slugfesting their way to the Final Four in Detroit. Izzo was able to plot and scheme and destroy Louisville by:
+ limiting the possibility of the Louisville press
+ effectively surviving the press
+ beating Louisville in terms of depth
+ taking away the Louisville three-pointers
+ slowing the game down to a grind
Strange comments by Billy Gillispie
This is really a strange cat, no wonder he doesn't like to talk to people about anything other than basketball. I watched some of the clips of the interview and it was rather bizarre. "I am the luckiest guy that has ever lived". While I understand this is a figure of speech, it was a very bizarre choice considering the current situation.
Not that we are experts on body language, but his hands were going crazy while he was saying "I'm the toughest guy on earth".
There must be a dark secret somewhere in his closet! Perhaps he is a member of a strange cult? ;-)
And who doesn't sign a contract in this day and age for a multi-million dollar transaction? It's not like he was baking cakes for the neighborhood. He was going into an 8-figure contract for crying out loud.
Anyways, he was a bad fit, glad he is gone, Kentucky must hire a coach who plays basketball the right way, not another slugfest control-freak. It's bad enough there's Ben Howland at UCLA, and because of his three back-to-back Final Fours it's not going to be easy to get rid of.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Villanova rewarded with a trip to the Final Four!
Despite the zebras and the NCAA trying to "punish" Nova with phantom fouls for humiliating their precious Dookies, the Wildcats were able to persevere and manage to take the "W" out of the hands of the Pitt Panthers and make it the Final Four! Go Nova Go! Thank you Nova for beating the Dookies!
Pitt, Pitt, Pitt! This was the year, with space-eater DJ Blair and versatile Sam Young and seasoned fattie LaVache Fields to make a run to the Final Four. The versatility of Nova across the board and the coaching skills of Jay Wright and his ability to make adjustments at critical junctions of the game, showed once again how the Ben Howland and Jamie Dixon success story is inflated based on their ability to foul teams and get away with it.
We love DJ Blair and Sam Young but the rest of the Pitt team just sucks. It's not enough for your four-year point guard to just wake up at the end of the game and hit miracles threes. Because those don't always drop in, and that's certainly not how you win championships.
Most NCAA wins without a trip to the Final Four
CBS has shown a very interesting statistic: The teams with the most wins in the NCAA tournament that have yet to make it to the Final Four. We would like to footnote this by saying that the Thad Matta Xavier was ROBBED of its rightful Final Four spot when the zebras did everything within their power to help Duke beat Xavier back in 2004 or so.
1. Boston College 22
2. Missouri 21
3. Alabama 20
4. Xavier 15
5. GoneZaga 14
Grouchy old men and Old Timers unite
Grouchy old men, the two hosts, of the new show that breaks a record in the number of sponsors it has, Survive and Advance, coming to you from Vegas, featuring Billy "I got kicked out of CBS" Packer and Bob Knight.
That is why when you watch ESPN, Bob Knight is not in the studio, but instead, he is on satellite :) He is with his buddy-in-grounchiness Billy Packer ;-)
Best Elite 8 records since expansion
SportsCenter had an interesting statistic, the best winning percentages in the Elite 8 since the field expanded to 64 (now 65) teams. Here they are:
1) Filthy Dirty Sleazy Dookies 10-1
2) Izzo State 4-1 (Michigan State)
3) Kansas (Ol'Roy and Bill "used car salesman" Self) 7-3
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