We’ve been talking about it all year. It was going to cripple them, never allowing their potential to be fully reached. Then, as they pushed ahead, deeper and deeper into the tournament, everyone stopped worrying. Everyone figured that because Memphis scored so easily, almost at will, that missing a couple free throws now and then wouldn’t ever prove to be decisive. [click to continue...]
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College Basketball
Final Four Wrap-Up
Everyone outside of Kansas was heartbroken when Jason Richards clanked his buzzer beating three in the Elite 8, allowing all four number ones to march into the Final Four for the first time, but as a sports fan, you couldn’t ask for much more out of this tournament. We had the drama, the Cinderella’s, the star power, and in the end, it looked like we were going to have three ultra competitive games to close out the tournament. [click to continue...]
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How Far Can Davidson, Curry Go?
How do you even begin to describe a player like Stephen Curry? Unfortunately we haven’t seen enough of him to truly get a grip on how special he really is, but that’s one of things that makes the tournament so great. Any of the Dickie V cliché’s fit perfectly here - diaper dandy, sensational, awesome with a capital a – take your pick. What How he ended up playing for the third tier North Carolina college, is what truly eludes me. Since the tournament started he is clearly the best player in the nation, shot for shot, minute for minute, play for play. Bar none. [click to continue...]
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Duke Loss Not Exactly Shocking
Some teams overachieve. It’s amazing how some teams can sternly defy the odds for such a long period of time, but logic always seems to catch up at some point. Just when you start to think that the impossible is possible, fate comes out of nowhere to knock the wind out of the dream, as if it were some perverse joke to begin with. [click to continue...]
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Bracketology 102: Breaking it Down
I don’t know what it is about this year’s bracket. For some reason I feel extremely gun shy about picking lower seeded teams to make a deep run. There’s going to be some big time upsets, there always is, yet I find myself struggling to clip any of the big dogs. I could be like Jay Bilas, ESPN’s resident college hoops guru, and take all four number ones to the Final Four even though it’s never happened before, and never will. [click to continue...]
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