Four 1-seeds is boring? Anything but, dude! I could understand the argument if this Final Four had your casually placed batch of two 1-seeds, a 2 and and even a 3 thrown in there. But this one is different. This one gives us the four best teams throughout the season. We should be thankful. When you think about it, this unprecedented happenstance should occur more frequently. The talent in college ball is ... Read More

It's times like these when I wish I had Photoshop so I could put Kevin Love's face on King Leonidas' body. I'll explain... I stumbled upon an article on Rivals yesterday that addressed the growing sentiment among many college hoops followers: UCLA is becoming pretty hated. Hm. Glad to see I'm not alone on this. Anyway, Kevin Love decided to add his take on the Bruins' march through March and what he ... Read More

(Update: Curry has announced that he'll return to Davidson for his junior year. Seemed like a no-brainer to me.)  Specifically, of course, Stephen Curry did his job. And then some. I know we all are upset/let down because of the fact that the guy who was lights out for the better part of four Tournament games GAVE UP the ball in the final seconds, but I don't go to bed with ... Read More

Third year's the charm. Good for the Tigers—I'm rooting for them to win it all. They dispatch of Texas, 85-67. It's going to be Memphis-UCLA for the second time in three years. You'll hear plenty about Bill Walton's greatest performance of all-time leading up to this one, but I remember these two teams for one of the ugliest, most unwatchable contests in recent memory, when UCLA took out the Tigers in ... Read More

Memphis-Texas tips in less than two hours, so let's address the question. When the brackets were released and a lot of prognosticators were taking all the Top Dogs to get to San Antonio, some agreed, thinking that this year's set of teams was facing an inferior field. Others thought it was uncreative and a cop-out. A lot of people liked Pitt to beat Michigan State ... then Pitt to beat Memphis. ... Read More

Kevin Love shoots these shots so effortlessy, I think he could rep 400 pounds about 20 times. That should come in handy tonight against Xavier. ... Read More

Damn right I'm going to nitpick. The fact that Memphis dropped the State off of their name over a decade ago makes this unacceptable. Come on over to this side of the century, Bobby. ... Read More

9:51 - I've got a sneaking suspicion that both of these games could be over by 11 p.m. so, with much hesitation, I will live blog my reaction for your read-it-later entertainment. I put up the Neitzel picture in order to jinx everyone's upset pick of the weekend, which will turn the jinx on me, I'm sure. 10:04 - Kansas is out and running and as long as they don't think ... Read More

7:10 - Got the bros over, got some pizza going and Gus Johnson's on the tube. "College BAS-ketball."Life, again, is just fine. 7:13 - Again, I hate the floor set up—everything's generic. I also hate that the NCAA has to try and make more money by playing tonight's games in professional football stadiums. Just. Not. Needed. How can the players get into it when they're chilling in the moat? 7:24 - ... Read More

I've only got to get up at 6 a.m., so this seems like the right thing to be doing. 10:00 - Louisville-Tennessee is underway and I've got my peanut butter and banana sandwich on Italian bread. Life's fine. 10:05 - "OK, time to rekeyap our skidyules..." I have Sven in my head. Not a good thing. 10:16 - Both Louisville and Tennessee are a little too sloppy for my liking so far. ... Read More

Yeah ... I know it's awkward because no one else is here, but grab whatever you want from the fridge and avoid the eye contact. Game-wise, I'm really hoping we can get two quasi instant-classics. 7:04 - A little Foo Fighters to get us going and both Davis and Kellogg like UNC (someone take a chance!), while they're split on the Xavier-WVU tilt, with Davis liking the boys above. 7:10 -They just ... Read More

If you ask me, today came quickly. No, I haven't abandoned the site (my god I'm swamped with work). It'll be interesting to see how the UCLA-Western Kentucky game is officiated tonight given the helping hand that the Bruins have received in recent weeks. Also, the teams play contrasting styles, so you'd think that would play a factor, too. Just for fun, my picks tonight (and I hope I wrong on a ... Read More

I think I'm going to go ahead and post my first retraction on this little site of mine. A few days ago, I put up this video of Wesley Matthews seemingly giving the finger to some fans in the stands during the Stanford-Marquette game. Many people have e-mailed me (some who claim to have been there) to tell me I'm wrong, just all wrong about the whole thing. I'll eat the ... Read More

I'm in the midst of putting together quite a few pieces for the newspaper, so I'm a little backed up right now. (I'll try and be back to my normal schedule by Thursday.) Plus, the left shift button on my laptop is broken, so that's making things only that much more fun. Anyway, here's a great video that was over at Awful Announcing, but first popped up at Mister Irrelevant. Henderson ... Read More

Just for fun, now that we've seen everyone play 80 (some 80-plus) minutes of ball, how would you realign The Tournament? I'll stick with the NCAA rule that no teams from the same conferences can play each other before the Elite Eight. EAST: No. 1 North Carolina vs. No. 4 Western Kentucky No. 2 Louisville vs. No. 3 Davidson MIDWEST No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 4 Villanova No. 2 Wisconsin vs. No. 3 Xavier SOUTH No. 1 Memphis ... Read More

Yes, everyone loves Stephen Curry and what Davidson is doing ... remember that they're in the same bracket as Kansas. Remember that they now go against a Wisconsin team that everyone undervalues. (How will Curry react/play when he suddenly goes against the most physical team he's encountered since December?) What about Western Kentucky? All they've got going for them is some late-game mojo (first true buzzer-beater since Drew Nicholas in '03)  ... Read More

I really wanted A&M to pull the upset out on Saturday night, but twas not to be. Ah ... but Uck-Lah got a little help from the zeebies! Here's the video, which you've probably seen. Here's the evidence. And as a post-note, the NCAA appropriately took away Russell Westbrook's emphatic dunk, as it came just milliseconds after time expired. Too bad. This UCLA team is begging to be taken out. I hope WKU ... Read More

Some people are interested in this stuff—I'm not—but here's your barometer for how conferences with multiple bids did in the first two rounds. ACC: 4-3 Atlantic 10: 2-2 Big XII: 6-4 Big East: 10-5 Big Ten: 5-2 Mountain West: 1-2 Pac-10: 6-3 SEC: 4-5 Sun Belt: 2-1 WCC: 1-3 ... Read More