Monthly Archives: April 2010

Just how close was Gordon Hayward…

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…to lifting Butler to the national championship, over mighty Duke, in Indianapolis, on a halfcourt buzzer-beater, in the greatest moment in NCAA Tournament history, bar none — never to be surpassed if they keep playing the tourney for 500 years — and one of the greatest moments in American sports history? Really, really close. (Hat tip: Danny Pilz.) … [Bumped…. Read more »

Who will be UConn’s 10th and 11th opponents next year?

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I’ve blogged before about the UConn women’s march toward the UCLA men’s record 88-game winning streak. Now that the foregone conclusion of the 2010 NCAA UConn Huskies Invitational Championship is in the record books, it’s time to re-ask the question that I posed in early February: The Huskies could tie UCLA’s record in their tenth game of 2010-11, and break… Read more »