I didn’t get to watch last night’s Gonzaga-Wazzu game — I had a lengthy choir practice — which is a bummer, because Andy Katz calls it “one of the best games” of a “classic night of hoops.” The Zags won, 74-69, rallying from a 13-point second-half deficit to improve their record to 6-1 and defend their #17 AP / #16… Read more »
I just got through watching the Gonzaga-Michigan State game — it ended more than two hours ago, but because it conflicted with the girls’ bedtimes, I had to TiVo it and watch it on a delay (sequestering myself from the Internet so I wouldn’t accidentally learn the result) — and, like Zach at The Slipper Still Fits, I’m not quite… Read more »
On the eve of ESPN’s ridiculous/awesome 24-hour marathon of wall-to-wall college hoops, a bit of November Madness courtesy of, well, Wall: That’d be Kentucky’s John Wall, kicking off his college career in style. Here’s the same play, without the awful play-by-play announcing, as seen from the crowd: P.S. “Charlie Coles finds your question absurd.” Heh.
College basketball got underway with its usual whimper on Monday, but Friday is the day things really get started, what with 125 games involving Division I teams happening all around the country. And I’ll be going to one of them — a pretty decent mid-major showdown, right here in Denver. Northern Iowa, defending champion of the Missouri Valley Conference, is… Read more »
Remember the 2008 NCAA basketball national title game between Memphis and Kansas? The overtime thriller made possible by the Jayhawks’ never-say-die tenacity, the Tigers’ poor free-throw shooting down the stretch, and Mario Chalmers’ amazing shining moment at the end of regulation? You know… the shot they’ll be talking about in Kansas for, well, as long as there’s a Kansas? You… Read more »
