What can you say but "Wild and Wacky"? I'm going to get straight into a crazy first weekend on this year's tourney.
- Here is my opinion's on yesterday!
- David has sleighed Goliath, as two mid-major's take down two of the big names in college basketball this year. Northern Iowa pulled the upset of the tourney so far taking down the overall number one Kansas. Ali Farokhmanesh shooting the ball as if he were Jimmy Chitwood straight out of Hickory, and the big boy in the middle Jared Eglseder, doing his thing against a so-called "lottery pick" in this year' NBA draft in Cole Aldrich. Can you say Greg Ostertag? The Panthers shot 36 for 42 from the charity stripe and controlled the tempo throughout. Kansas was sleeping, and woke up to find the nightmare was real. Oklahoma City was the last stop for the Jayhawks this season, and UNI is still "cutting a rug".
- Omar Sanham, Omar Sanham, this is what Villanova coach Jay Wright saw in his sleep last night. The "Big White Hope" for the Saint Mary Gaels boasted 32 pts and 7 rebounds, after just having 29 and 12 against Richmond in the first round. My question is, after watching the Richmond game, and knowing you are limited in the big man department: why not run a zone? Obviously, the Gaels can shoot with Mickey McConnell, who leads the nation in three point percentage (51%), but you let one, overweight big man rule the roost. Wright in my opinion should have packed it in and let the Gaels beat his Wildcats from the outside, lets face it, they can't hit 'em all. Sanham dominated each Villanova defender that "tried" to guard him during this game, double teams didn't help, I don't know if five men could have helped yesterday, either way the Gaels are dancing into the round of 16.
- Lets hear from Compton, Long Beach, to Spokane baby! The West Coast has arrived in this year's tourney! With Saint Mary's and Washington all ready in the sweet 16, two more teams are going to try to prove the experts wrong, and say, "The west coast is here, and not as bad as you would like us to be." East coast bias? Well, look at the tourney and its teams; they selection commitee knows who the fans go to watch. This year, the west coast is getting a even. With California and Gonzaga to play today the west coast could potentially get 4 teams in the round of 16! With a fourth of the teams being from the West Coast, they might have a legitimate gripe. At least, we know they can beat up on the Big East, the best conference in the nation, just saying.
- Tomorrow, if many more mid-major's make the sweet 16, you are going to have to hear my spill about "parody", and how it is working liking a John Mayer song, except it's not working "against me", but against coaches and "job se-cur-ity!
- Another wacky day to end the weekend, we'll see.
- 1 for 1 on bold predictions so far, so lets try to go 2 for 2 today shall we.
- Bold Prediciton: Another number one seed will drop today! Tell all your friends, the Dukies will have trouble with California, and their big three. Syracuse better have Rautins dialed in or the Zags could march out of Buffalo and send the Cuse back down the road!
- By the way, Shelby Valley way to go in showing "mountain pride", way to bring a state championship back to the 15th!
- Until next time, Adios!
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Gonzaga is always the classic underdog, and only goes away easy when they're not supposed to. They are hanging with Syracus as we speak.
ReplyDeleteI think UL would have given Duke a LOT more problems than Cal will. Duke's done as soon as they play a team that can challenge them in a footrace.
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ReplyDeleteHave you not watched Cal this year or the Louisville game the other night? Cal beat Louisville at their own game lol......They have little or no post presence and all they do is run.
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