Thursday, March 25, 2010

Thursday Sweet 16 game thoughts...

It is amazing as a sports talk host what some people interpret about some programs and what some hosts actually don't know about some of the teams playing.

Of course everyone is waiting for the Cornell and Kentucky. The great things is people assume that Cornell plays like Princeton.

Outside of the games against the Tigers, Cornell scored 60 or more in EVERY GAME. They also scored 90 twice and 104 once. They threw down 87 against Wisconsin and won at Alabama and UMASS.

This is not your typical IVY League team. They can play. They can shoot and they have a big man. They also have a coach who certainly knows what he is doing.

I think everyone outside of Lexington, Kentucky is rooting for Cornell. DeMarcus Cousins, not John Wall is the key to this game. He will have to guard Jeff Foote all over the frontcourt and Ryan Wittman at 6-7 will shoot over some of Kentucky's defenders. George Mason once made the final four, Cornell can too. They are coached well, while I wonder if Wall and company are listening to Calipari at all. CORNELL 84 Kentucky 82

Truck Bryant's injury will hurt West Virginia but not until they play Kentucky or Cornell. I think West Virginia will defend Washington well. Bob Huggins always seems to have the darndest luck when he looks like he could win it all. Mr. Butler will do enough to get the Mountaineers through this one. West Virginia 68 Washington 61.

Butler has shot lights out recently, and done it against mainly man to man defensive teams. Anyone think Brad Stevens looks not even old enough to drink? I think Syracuse is resembling the team we all thought in early February was going to win this thing. Wesley Johnson coming on a 31-14 effort is enough to sell me here, and Butler having to deal with zone and one shot and done possessions. SYRACUSE 88 BUTLER 69

Xavier is one of the nations most underappreciated programs over the past ten years. Another good team in the sweet 16 even though Sean Miller moved on to coach Arizona. Kansas State has watched its nemesis, Kansas, get eliminated. The Wildcats are confident and shooting the ball very well. Kansas State 73 Xavier 66

Dont forget to Catch me and Joe Miller along with Jeremy Conn of the Scott Garceau Show Friday night at Buffalo Wild Wings in Westminster, Maryland starting at 6pm-10 on 105.7fm and www.1057thefan.com

Friday, March 19, 2010

Poor at-large field, you bet!

Many of us who watch college hoops have said this was a mediocre at-large group and you know what? We're finding out thats right on the money. Little did we know though that it was as mediocre as three and four seeds!

Number-three seed Georgetown my childhood team, gone. Patrick where were you when we needed you, hell Micahel Graham would have planted D.J. Cooper and Armon Bassett after their first trip into the paint and they never would have ventured there again.

Vanderbilt of the SEC, see you, you were a victim of more March Madness. Temple of the rejuvinated A-10, joinh Richmond on the sidelines, those non-scholarship guys from Cornell smoked you. Pretty soon, they will want to ban non-scholarship teams from the tourney for making scholarship teams look bad.

Wofford, which has as many kids as my son Division III school, nearly shocked Wisconsin. By the way thats around 1400+ at last check.

If the NCAA expands t0 96 will that raise the cost of most pools for accounting fees?

Which coach will parlay this years tourney to more $$$ next year. Mike Rice, Robert Morris. Someone should offer a job to Blaine Taylor at ODU too. Are you listening DePaul? Seton Hall, St. John's? Whichever job Tom Pecora doesn't get offered, Taylor should get it.

Perhaps the next announcement made at a WAL-MART will be "Number-seven seeds, please exit the tournament now."

When will people realize that with only 12 scholarships per school, that someone not named Kansas, Calipari, or Duke has good players too.

How many times did Tim Brando mention Bentley's in College Park during the Maryland-Houston broadcast? Perhaps as many rebounds as Jordan Williams had, 213. Shocker this game wasnt over til 12:45 eastern time. Could someone have put Cal-Gonzaga as an 8-9 game or something in this late time slot?

My champion looked good as did my picks of ODU, Ga. Tech, and Purdue. Why do u mention Purdue Pete they are a four-seed right? No one picked them but me it seemed. Siena was very average over the past six games heading in.

The two coaches I thought needed wins coming in were Dino gaudio and Oliver Purnell. Dino did, Oliver, not so much.

I walked into an Outback Steakhouse for dinner tonight and would you believe on the TV monitors, an NIT game and a Caps-Hurricanes game from last night. Hello?

Thank god the number-one seeds restored order in day two of the tourney, but there still is nothing like the little guy flexing his bicep once in a while too.......