Georgetown 55 Louisville 52
Even though this was a low scoring game it was pretty exciting throughout. And even though Louisville lost I was more impressed with them than I was with Georgetown. I think the Hoyas will end up a 2 seed and they'll win a couple games but their offense is unimaginative and I just don't see another Final Four in their future.
USC 77 Stanford 64
Here's your guide for watching Stanford: Brook is the Lopez twin with the short hair. And he's the better player. Robin has the Sideshow Bob look and all he does is play defense and rebound. (Brook and Robin? Think their parents wanted girls?). Those two will help Stanford overpower some teams in the early rounds but I just don't see them being able to score enough points consistently to make a deep run. I love USC. They were in anyway but this win gives them further credibility and I can see them making the Sweet 16. I love O.J. Mayo. This was his best game all year. He was scoring and dishing and making good decisions. Write this down, the team that passes on him in the NBA Draft to take Beasley is making a big mistake.
Syracuse 87 Marquette 72
Syracuse stepped up big in a game they absolutely had to have. It was probably their best game of the season against a quality opponent. Donte Greene grew up in this game. Instead of waiting outside for someone to drive and kick it to him for a 3, Greene posted up, drove and otherwise got himself easy shots. He might have emerged as a go-to guy. But because a lot of other bubble teams (Ohio State, Oregon, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Illinois State) also won big games this weekend, I still think SU needs one more win to make the field.
UCLA 81 California 80
Another miracle win for UCLA aided by a bad call by the referee. UCLA got the possession on an out of bounds play late that I think should have been Cal's ball. But even so that doesn't overshadow the fact that UCLA made an incredible comeback helped by a tough 3 by Kevin Love (onions!) and an incredible over the backboard shot by Josh Shipp. Love is another player who I think will have a better NBA career than Michael Beasley.
North Carolina 76 Duke 68
I've never been one to subscribe to the theory that this game is all that's right with college basketball but it certainly is a lot more fun to watch than most other games. The crowd is going nuts the whole time, the announcers are forced to watch from a press box rather than from court level, and they can barely be heard over the screaming. Among the great fans, Speedo guy who tries to distract UNC players by crotch chopping while they're shooting free throws. ESPN showed this guy for a good long time (and Erin Andrews seemed distracted, it's ixnay, not nixay) but they later apologized. There's nothing offensive about a guy gesticulating at his genitals. It might be unseemly but it's not offensive. It's exactly what they should be showing us so we can appreciate the atmosphere.
As for the game UNC is damn good, Hansbrough is very hard to handle and Duke basically is a team of 3-point shooting white kids. If they're hot they can beat anyone, if not they can get upset by anyone.
Oregon 78 Arizona 69
The Pit at Oregon may be a poor man's Cameron Indoor. The crowd was electric during the whole game and especially when Tajuan Porter went off, nailing 3s and burying Arizona. I think Ted Robinson is color blind because when he tried to describe Oregon's jerseys he asked Marques Johnson for help. Johnson said "different," which obviously didn't help Robinson because he later described them as "shocking lime." They were yellow.
Arizon's Chase Budinger puked on the court, right after he made a driving layup. While describing the incident, Marques Johnson said "he gave it up."
The director for FSN must have been reading the Pride and the Pageantry because he got closeups several times of Oregon's smoking hot cheerleader, Kelsi Metzler who for some reason is continuing to refuse to be my friend on Facebook.
Kentucky 75 Florida 70
Kentucky clinched a berth with a win here and I think they knocked Florida out. Florida has a guy named Speights whose first name is pronounced like Maurice but spelled like this: Marreese.
Drake 79 Illinois State 49
I still think Illinois State is going to make it in on the strength of their regular season performance and their two wins in the tournament. The Missouri Valley has gotten two teams in for 9 years in a row, and in several of those years they got a team to the Sweet 16, two years ago they got Wichita State and Bradley. Drake held a slim 18-17 lead early, then they just went off, hitting everything, going on a 19-0 run, and ISU never recovered. I could see Drake getting a 5 or 6 and if Syracuse gets in the committee would match them up to punish Boeheim. With Drake's outside shooting they would tear the 2-3 zone to pieces.
Adam Emmenecker is a ham-and-egger. Dick Enberg loves him.
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