Half the FInal Four is Set

UCLA finally blew someone out. I hope that makes everyone happy. But it doesn't change anything for me. I still think they have so many good players who can kill you on both ends of the floor.

Kevin Love keeps getting better everytime I see him. He knows exactly when to shoot, when to drive, when to dish. He's still a little slow on defense but no one is perfect.

Josh Shipp needs to start playing better.

For the last time this season that we get to hear Raftery he was in rare form.

Verne set him up beautifully by saying "Kevin Love is being guarded by Jason Love. The floor is yours." But Raf played it coy saying "I'll save that until later." Then like a little kid who couldn't wait he said "love is in the air."

On the other hand, we can now see why Dick Enberg only did half the games last week. He was utterly confused at several points about the time and score (saying the scoreboard was hard to read). But he also had trouble reading his stat sheet because he said not once, but twice, than Hansbrough had 9 assists, before later amending that by saying he had accidentally read Lawson's stat line. I like Dick Enberg but if you screw up the little things it doesn't matter how smooth you are.

Louisville gave North Carolina the best game so far, but it is quite possible this team is unbeatable. Although, once again I did see a glimmer of hope in there, just failure to execute. Louisville made their run cut it to 1, then UNC got a couple baskets. Louisville tried too hard to get those points back, rushing a 3, and rushing a pass. And when you rush against UNC not only do you fail to score, you make it easier for them score. So every mistake against them is a 4 point swing.

I'm sick of the Tyler Hansbrough hype already, every announcer has to say something more than the previous guy. So this time it wasn't just that Hansbrough never takes a play off, it's that he never takes a day off. On his off day he shot 500 (or was it 5000?) jump shots. But I must say, it did pay off. This was as good as I've ever seen him play. He was actually making plays (flying around for dunks, hitting 15 footers) instead of just running into people and getting fouled like he normally does.

I'm assuming Kansas will beat Davidson, and when they do they will play an epic game against North Carolina.