Stealing a topic from sports radio: Dick Vitale is a finalist for the Basketball Hall of Fame. Should he get in? Much as I hate the guy, I think I have to say yes. He’s an absolutely terrible game announcer at this point– more often than not, he’s so busy babbling about other teams, other… Continue reading Vitale in the Hall of Fame?
Category: Basketball
My Teams Stink Again
Karma is a bitch. I left work a little early yesterday, because I saw that both Maryland and Syracuse were playing at 2:00, on ESPN networks, and I was finished with my meeting in time to catch most of the second half. Not only did I get home to find that the Maryland game was… Continue reading My Teams Stink Again
Federal Agency or Basketball Conference?
This idea is stolen from Colin Cowherd, a pinhead on ESPN Radio, but even a blind pig finds the occasional acorn. I’m going to list a bunch of abbreviations below, and you tell me which are the initials of conferences in Division I basketball, which are agencies of the US Government, and which could be… Continue reading Federal Agency or Basketball Conference?
Duke: Good and Bad
Lest it be said that I never say anything nice about anyone from Duke, let me second Dave’s recommendation of Al Featherston’s article about coaching consistency at the Duke Basketball Report. It being a Dukie publication, he goes on rather too long about the greatness of Mike Krzyzewski, but the opening point about how even… Continue reading Duke: Good and Bad
Let’s Hear It for the Little Guy 4
Two more automatic bids handed out last night: Central Connecticut: The Blue Devils beat Sacred Heart in a battle of small Connecticut schools, winning the Northeast Conference title behind 25 points from Javier Mojica. The high-profile UConn Huskies lost to Syracuse yesterday in the Big East tournament, so Central Connecticut will be the sole representative… Continue reading Let’s Hear It for the Little Guy 4
Let’s Hear it for the Little Guy 3
Three more automatic bids last night, earning three teams their coveted one-paragraph summary on Uncertain Principles: Wright State: The shocker so far (for small values of “shocker”), the unranked Raiders beat #19 Butler to win the Horizon League title and a trip to the NCAA’s. Though Butler is nationally ranked, they were co-champs with Wright… Continue reading Let’s Hear it for the Little Guy 3
Let’s Hear it for the Little Guy 2
Four more automatic bids to the NCAA’s were won over the last couple of days: Creighton: The Blue Jays almost don’t deserve to be thought of as a “little guy” any more, given that this is their seventh win in the last nine years. They did, however, have to beat a ranked Southern Illinois team… Continue reading Let’s Hear it for the Little Guy 2
ACC Wrap-Up
The ACC Season came to a bloody and unpleasant end last night, with Duke’s Gerald Henderson busting UNC’s Tyler Hansbrough open with an elbow to the face in the final seconds of a Carolina victory. Henderson was ejected from the game, and will reportedly be suspended for Duke’s first-round ACC tournament game. (My take: looking… Continue reading ACC Wrap-Up
Let’s Hear it for the Little Guy
It’s that time of year, when “mid-major” and small conferences have their basketball tournaments, with the winners earning one shot at sports-geek immortality with a chance to score an upset in the first round of the NCAA’s. Four teams earned automatic bids yesterday, and they deserve a post of their own: Winthrop: At 28-4, the… Continue reading Let’s Hear it for the Little Guy
Senior Days
It was a regular hoopsapalooza yesterday in Chateau Steelypips, with Syracuse playing Villanova at 2:00, and Maryland playing NC State at 3:30, both games on tv. And, of course, there were a host of other games on, including UCLA getting waxed at Washington, THE Ohio State University narrowly avoiding a loss at Michigan (and putting… Continue reading Senior Days