Notre Dame and Gonzaga both have big games tonight — at Seton Hall at 5pm MDT, a crucial game for the Irish’s bubble hopes, and vs. St. Mary’s at 9pm MDT for the WCC lead, respectively — and of course, USC hosts UCLA on Sunday, hoping to reprise the 21-point beatdown the Trojans laid on the Bruins at Pauley last… Read more »
Continuing on with the discussion in my prior tweets and links and longer blog posts about the possibility of NCAA Tournament expansion, I want to expand on something I proposed in comments the other day. If the NCAA is absolutely dead set on expansion, there’s a right way to do it, and a wrong way. The wrong way is to… Read more »
In response to my prior tweets and blog posts condemning the potential expansion of the NCAA Tournament to 96 teams as “unspeakably dumb, absolutely ridiculous, totally insane, utterly indefensible, wolf-face crazy,” and so forth — and lamenting the possible end to the mystique of the quixotic 16-versus-1 game — Andrew last night e-mailed the following response. I don’t agree with… Read more »
One of the greatest annual subplots of the NCAA Tournament in its 64-team (and 65-team) format, IMHO, is the question of whether a #16 seed will finally do the unthinkable and knock off a #1 seed. It’s never, EVER happened, and it rarely even threatens to happen, for the simple reason that #16 seeds — the champions, often the unexpected… Read more »
Moments ago, Sports by Brooks posted this update to its earlier report that expansion of the NCAA Tournament from 65 to 96 teams — an unspeakably dumb, absolutely ridiculous, totally insane, utterly indefensible, wolf-face crazy idea — is a “done deal.” The new report, which links to a Fox Sports story, involves weasel-word contradictions of the “done deal” notion that,… Read more »
Unlike my last two home cities (South Bend and Knoxville), Denver isn’t much of a college-sports town — pro sports definitely rules the roost here. But, depending on how things play out in the Big Sky Conference, we could end up with some March Madness up in Greeley, 60 miles north of town, on the 9th and 10th of next… Read more »
If the UConn women, currently 21-0 and seemingly unbeatable — they’ve beaten #2 Stanford by 12 points (in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score indicated), #3 Notre Dame by 24 points, #7 Duke by 33 points, and #12 North Carolina by 41 points — keep winning, they’ll tie their own record for the longest winning streak… Read more »
President Obama attended today’s Duke-Georgetown game, and tried his hand at some color commentary on CBS early in the second half: The Hoyas won, by the way, 89-77 (and it wasn’t really that close). I hope you’ll all join me, liberals and conservatives alike, and say together in a spirit of bipartisanship: Duke sucks.
Wow:
Well, on the bright side, meeting La Rev at Chopper’s was fun. He’s a cool guy. His wife and parents are nice, too. On the down side: pretty much everything about the game we were watching. The goofy smiles and thumbs-up in this photo, taken after the game, are most definitely ironic: Andy Katz writes, “The Zags can’t look as… Read more »