End of College Basketball

Another season of college basketball has come to an end. It started with Kansas as the number 1 team in the nation and ended with Duke holding the trophy. Was it on eof the best college basketball seasons around? No, but there was alot of excitment throughout the season. Kansas, Syracuse, and Kentucky were three teams that shared the top spot most of the season. Kentucky had 2 super freshman John Wall and Demarcus Cousins that took on everyone's challenges and prevailed in most of them. The NCAA tournament was an exciting one. Many upsets took place and a Cinderella was born in Butler. Butler came close to beating the Evin Empire in College Basketball, Duke. Butler came up just short though but stole many hearts. As we wait for the next season of College Basketball hopefully it will be naother exciting year.

Favortism for Duke?

Honestly did they?

At first I just ignored it and didn't believe but now that Duke is in the final four, I think maybe they did.

Kansas was the overall #1 seed and look at the teams in their region. UNI(Top 25 team),Mich St(always a final four threat),Maryland(ACC co-champion),Tennessee,Georgetown,and Ohio St. Thats one hell of a region there!

Syracuse had Gonzaga, Butler, Vandy, Xavier, Pitt, and Kansas St. Not as tough but still some good teams.

Kentucky had Texas(was a #1 team),Cornell, Wisconsin,Marq,Wash, New Mexico, and West Virgina

Duke had Cal(a bubble team that somehow got a 8 seed), Louisville( a bubble team without two wins over syracuse),Texas AM,Purdue(without hummel),Baylor and Nova.

Sorry but does it not look like Duke had the easiest region? I saw an article somewhere where they were talking about Duke draws viewers so them getting to the fina 4 is a good thing.

NCAA Tournament

A.EAST--S.Brook
ATL 10--Temple,Xavier,Richmond,ST.Louis
(bubble),Charolitte,R.Island,Dayton
ACC--Duke,Maryland,Va Tech,Clemson,Fl.St,W.F.,G.Tech
ATL SUN--Lipscomb
BIG 12--Kansas, Kansas St,Baylor,Texas AM,Mizzou,Texas,Texas AM
BIG EAST--Syr,Nova,W.V.,Pitt,Marq,Louis,Gtown,N.D.
(bubble).,S.Fl,Uconn,Cincy,S.Hall
BIG SKY--Weber St
BIG SOUTH-C.Carolina
BIG TEN-Ohio St,Mich St,Purdue,Wisconsin,Illinois
(bubble)Minnesota
BIG WEST--Uc Santa Barbra
CAA--Old Dominion
C-USA--UTEP,UAB
(bubble)Memphis,Marshall
GREAT WEST--S.Dakota
Horizon--Butler
IVY--Cornell
MEACC--Sienna
MAC--Akron
(bubble)Kent St
MID-EAC--Morg St
MVC--N Iowa
(bubble)Witchita St
M.WEST--N.Mexico,BYU,UNLV,S Dieg St
NEAST--Quinnipac
OHIO VALLEY--Murry St
PAC-10--Cal
(bubble)Ariz st
PATRIOT--Leigh
SEC--Kentucky,Vandy,Tenn,Florida
(bubble),Miss St,Miss
SOUTHERN--Wofford
SLAND--S.Houston St
SWAC--Jakcson St
SUMMITT--Oakland
SUN BELT--N Texas
WCC--Gonzaga,St Marys
WAC--Utah St

Conf Alignment

BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL(split up,1-2)

ACC
1)Duke--1
2)UNC---2
3)N.C. St---2
4)Miami---2
5)Va Tech---1
6)Virgina---1
7)Wake Forest---1
8)Maryland ---1
9)Florida St---2
10)W.Virgina---1
11)S.Florida---2
12)Vandy---2


BIG TEN
1)Illinois---2
2)Indiana--2
3)Michigan--1
4)Michigan St--1
5)Wisconsin---1
6)Minnesota---1
7)Northwestern--1
8)Purdue--1
9)Ohio St--2
10)Iowa---2
11)Iowa St---2
12)Missouri---2

BIG EAST
1)Syracuse--
2)Villanova--NO FTB
3)Pitt
4)Georgetown--NO FTB
5)Louisville
6)N.Dame--INDY
7)Seton Hall--NO FFTB
8)Uconn
9)Cincy
10)Temple
11)Xavier--NO FTB
11)Boston College
12)Penn St

BIG 12
1)Kansas---1
2)Kansas St---1
3)Texas AM---2
4)Baylor---2
5)Texas----2
6)Oklahoma St---1
7)Oklahoma---1
8)Texas Tech---2
9)Colorado---1
10)Nebraska---1
11)Arkansas---2
12)Tcu----2

Pac-12
1)Oregon--1
2)Oregon St---1
3)Usc---2
4)Ucla---2
5)Arizona---2
6)Arizona st---2
7)Stanford---1
8)Cal---2
9)Wash---1
10)Wash St---1
11)Utah---2
12)Byu---1

SEC
1)Alabama--1
2)Auburn---1
3)Florida---2
4)Georgia---2
5)Kentucky---2
6)Miss---1
7)Miss st--1
8)Lsu---1
9)S.Carolina---2
10)Tenn--1
11)Clemson---2
12)G.Tech--2

C-USA
1)Marquette--NO CF
2)Rutgers---1
3)Depaul--NO CF
4)E.Carolina---1
5)Chariolette--NO CF
6)U.C.F.---2
7)Houston--2
8)Rice--2
9)Tulane--1
10)Smu---2
11)Tulsa---2
12)Utep--2
13)Uab--1
14)S.Miss---1
12)L.Tech---2

A-11
1)Richmond
2)Umass
3)St.Bonna
4)Lasalle
5)Duquense
6)Fordham
7)St.Josephs
8)G.Wahington
9)R.Island
10)Providence
11)Dayton

M.West
1)New Mexico-1
2)S.D. St-1
3)Unlv-1
4)Colorado St-2
5)Wyoming-2
6)Air Force-2
7)Boise-2
8)Fresno-1
9)Utah St
10)Idaho-2
11)Hawaii-1
12)S.jose St-1
13)Nevada-2
14)N.Mexico St-1

predictions for the 2010 Nascar Season

1)Jimmie Johnson- Cant pick anyone else until he loses
2)Denny Hamlin- Biggest challenger, can he stay focused with his torn ACL
3) Jeff Gordon- Still looking for his 5th title
4) Carl Edwards- Rousch will have a bounce back year
5) Kyle Busch- will have a much better year, will fall short though
6) Mark Martin- title will still elude him
7)Kurt Busch-will be the where did he come from guy
8)Tony Stewart-wont have such a great year
9) Greg Biffle-Will contend for wins
10)Martin Treux Jr.-Move to MWR will help
11)Kevin Harvick- RCR will mae a little comeback
12) Jeff Burton- 2 cars in te chase for RCR

Driver 13-20
13) Juan pablo Montoya
14) Joey Lagano
15)Clnt Bowyer
16)Ryan Newman
17)Kasey Khane
18) Dale Jr
19)Matt Kenseth
20)Jamie Mcmurray

Ncaa Tournament Projections

2-15-09

A.East--Stony Brook
A-10---Richmond,Temple,Charloitte,Xavier,R.Island
(bubble) , Dayton
ACC--Duke, W.F., V.Tech, Maryland, Clem, Fl. St
(bubble) Virgina, G.Tech
A.Sun-Belmont
Big 12-- Kansas, Kansas St, Texas A.M.,Baylor, Texas, Mizzou
(bubble) Ok st, Tex Tech
Big East-Nova,Syracuse, W.V., Pitt, Gtown, Marq, Louis
(bubble)Cincy,N.dame,s.fl.
Big Sky-Weber St
Big South- Coastal Carolina
Big Ten-- Mich St., Ohio St., Purdue, Illinois, Wisconsin, Northwestern
(bubble)minnesota
Big West--Uc Santa Barbra
CAA--Northeastern, Old Dominion
(bubble)william and mary,george mason
C-USA--Utep,UAB
(bubble) Memphis, , Tulsa
Great West-S.Dakota St
Horizon-- Butler
Ivy-Cornell
MAAC--Siena
MAC--Akron
(bubble)-kent st
MEAC-Morgan St
MVC-N.Iowa
(bubble) Witchita St, Ill St.
M.West--New Mexico, BYU, UNLV,S.Dieg St
Neast-R. Morris
Ohio Valley--Murray St
(bubble)Morehead st
Pac-10--Cal
(bubble) Arizona st,WASH
Patriot--Leigh
SEC--Kentucky,Vandy,Tenn,Miss St
(bubble)Florida,S.Carolina, Miss
Southern-Charlesyon
(bubble) Wofford
Southladn-Sam Houston St
SWAC--Jakson st
Summit--Oakland
Sun beltt--Mid Tenn
WCC-Gonzaga
(bubble) St marys
WAC--Utah St

Roundup

Urban Meyer lied about taking a break. More

Tom Cable to return to Oalkand

Nascar driver tears ACL.

Baltimore has a former ex-star coming back

Worst uniforms of the 90's

Last Night

NBA

Orlando 106 Charolitte 95 .Bob cats outscored the Magic by ten in the 4th quater to force overtime, but Jameer Nelson took over. 21 pts for both nelson and Vince Carter. D-Howard had 10 pts and 20 baords. D.J. Augistin had 22 off the bench for the Bobcats. Gerwald Wallace had 9 points as he shot 2-11.

Lebron vs Kevin Durant held up as the Cavs won by 1 over the Thunder. Lebron had 37 pts, 12 rebs and 9 assist. Shaq had 22 and Daniel Gibson made an appearance scoring 12 pts. Kevin Durant had 34 pts and 10 boards and Russell Westbrook has 22 pts.

Miami beat Sacramento 115-84. Sacramento still remains winless since Kevin Martin returned from injury. Dwayne Wade had 27 for the Heat. Beasley had a double-double 23 pts and 10 boards. Kevin Martin continued to struggle shooting 1-7, and Tyreke Evans was held to 15 points.

Chicago 104 Houston 97. Brad Miller led the Bulls with 25 in a nice road win for the Bulls. The Rockets starters struggled as their point total wnet like this...2, 20, 2, 8, 20. You won't win many games when your starters combine for 52 points.

Denver beat the N.O. Hornets 116-110. Denver improved to 29-15 on the year. 4 of the Nuggets starters score 19 or more points.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL
1. Texas fell to 21. Uconn by a score of 88-74. Big win for the Huskies as they needed an impressive win for their tournament chances. Texas will no longer be number 1 next week in the polls after this lost and losing to Kansas St. on Monday night. Jerome Dyson had 32 for the Huskies. They outscored Texas by 22 in the second half.

2. Kentucky beat Arkansas 101-70. Kentucky will be the new number 1 in the polls and are still th eonly undefeated team in College Hoops. Kentucky was up by 30 at halftime. John Wall had 16 points and 7 assist.

3. Kansas beat Iowa St. 84-61. Cole Aldrich had 19 for the Jayhawks who had no trouble with the Cyclones.

4. Villanova came off a sluggish 1st half to beat St. Johns 81-71. Scoonie Reynolds had 19 and the Wildcats didn't take the lead till 10:41 was left in the second half

5. Syarcuse beat Marquette 76-71. The Orange are now 19-1
Marquette has lost two straight after also losing to DePaul.

6. Duke got a good win on the road as they beat 16.Clemson 60-47. Trevor Booker shot 10-14 but the rest of his teammates shot 8-34. 1st win for Duke on the road.

7. Michigan St, beat Minnesota at the Barn by a score of 65-64. Minnesota led the whole game until Lucas took over for the Spartans. The Gophers had a shot to win the game at the end but a couple of desperation shots got nowhere close near the basket. Spartans remain undefeated in Big Ten Play (7-0)

8. Tennessee got of to a bad start and could not catch up to the Bulldogs of Georgia as they lost 78-63. Mark Few got his first SEC win as Georgia dominated the Vols the entire game.

Oklahoma St got a huge win beating 9.Kansas St by 4. Kansas St came off the big win vs Texas and could not get it going. They had a chance to tie the game at the end but missed a layup

10. Gonzaga had 22 points and 8 rebounds from Harris as the rolled to a 20 point win.

12. West Virgina beat 25. Ohio St. Ohio St was up by 12 in the first half. The Buckeyes only hit 2 field goals in the last 9 minutes as the Mountaineers caught fire. Evan Turner had 18 for the Buckeyes

13. BYU had a late run to continue their hot start as the knocked off San Diego St by 2.

14. Georgetown had no problem with Rutgers winning by 25

15. Purdue beat Michigan 69-59. Michigan was without their star Manny Harris. Game was never in doubt

17. Temple kept their impressive start going beating Fordham by 17

20. Butler beat Illinois-Chicago 84-55

24. Mississippi got a good win going into LSU and beating them by 10.

A-10

Xavier 72 Rhode Island 61

ACC

Va Tech 63 B.College 62

Wake Forest 69 Virgina 57 (1st ACC lost for Virgina)

Maryland 88 N.C. ST 64

BIG 12

Texas AM 67 Colorado 63

Baylor 71 Umass 45

Missouri 71 Nebaraska 53

Texas Tech 75 Oklahoma 65

BIG EAST

N. Dame 87 Depaul 77

S. Fl 109 Providence 105

BIG TEN

Northwestern 73 Illinois 68

PAC-10

Cal 65 Oregon St 61

UCLA 74 Wash St 62

Stanford 84 Oregon 69

Arizona 77 Arizona st 58

USC 87 Wash 61

SEC

Bama 62 Miss St 57

Vandy 84 Auburn 72

Florida 58 S. Carolina 56

Roundup

Gilbert Arenas to learn his fate next week.

Vikings may be without WR for Sunday's game.

Kobe's mad at his teammates again.

Nascar to let drivers get rough.

Rick Majerus doesn't like the A-10.

Angels get another pitcher.

Jim Thome with the Twins?

Last Night

What happened in the leagues last night?

NBA

Orlando dominated the Kings 102-84. Magic had a 32 point lead. Tyreke Evans was held quite. Only 19 points and 2 assist. Kevin Martin only had 5 points as he shot 1-7. Kings now 0-5 since he returned. Dwight Howard had 19 and 15 and J.J. had 15 off the bench.

Atlanta beat Charlotte 103-89. Atlanta had 5 players in double-digits including 6th Man of the Year contender Jamal Crawford who dropped 24.

Boston beat Portland 98 to 95 in OT last night in Boston. Garnett's first game back after his injury resulted in 13 pts and 4 boards in 30 minutes. Ray Allen was 3-14. Andre Miller had 28 for the Jailblazers, and speculation is he may end up in Washington for Brendan Hawywood. Portland needs a center so I like this trade. Portland doesn't need Andre Miller scoring 28 every night.



NOR beat the T'wolves 96-94 on a last second layup by James Posey. Chris Paul had a solid game. The starting Center and PF for the T'wolves had a combined 2 points.



Kobe scored 27 but shot 8-24 as the Lakers beat the Knicks at the garden 115-105. Close game throughout but the Lakers pulled away at the end. Kobe needs to rest the hand. 6 players in double figures for the Lakers. 31 and 28 pts for David Lee and Wilson Chandler. Jordan Hill had a nice 11 pts and 7 rebs in only 11 mins. Maybe more playing time?


In a matchup of two young hot teams the O.K. Thunder lost to t the Grizzlies 86-84. Durant dropped 30 on 10-23 shooting and was the only offense. Zach Randolph and Rudy Gay each had 25.

The Bulls beat the Suns last night on the West Coast. Derrick Rose had 32 points and the Bulls playes with a short bench as payers were out due to the flu. Sick dunk by Rose

Bob Knight a Hypocrite?

Bob Knight is a great coach. There is no doubt about that. He has 902 career wins, tops all time. He has 3 National Championships from his time at Indiana including a undefeated season, which no team has ever matched. He even had a winning record at Army which isn't easy and even made Texas Tech relevant. Throughout his career, he had a lot of negative issues. Slapping players, throwing a chair across the court, and many more issues. He also hate dthe media, and often ridiculed, and made fun of them (videos below). He ended up retiring in 2008, in a controversial way. He had gotten to 900 wins which is quite an accomplishment, won 2 more games, then decided to retire. His son Pat Knight, said "He's just too tired and wore down." So he was never tired or wore down all the other years he coached? My opinion is he knew he had a team that was not going to be a NCAA tournament team. His son, Pat, was in line for the Texas Tech job and when Bob retired, Pat got it. I really think that was not fair, is Pat a division 1 coach? I feel nhe isn't especially for school in the Big 12. After he retired Bob ended up as a anylast for ESPN. This was not a suprise as ESPN was always a fan of Knight. Dick Vitale acted like they were BFF. Bob Knight as a analyst? The same guy who throughout his career would go off on the media? I don't like it or agree with it. Though Knight is a great coach, one of the best of all time, he is without a doubt a hypocrite.

Robin Williams flips out

On The Tonight Show last night, Robin Williams freaked out just a bit.

Mets Trade for OF

The New York Mets who will be without Carlos Beltran for the first few months have traded for Gary Matthews Jr. Matthews struggled last year only hitting .250 with 4 HR'S in only 316 at-bats last year. The Mets are expected to give up a low level pitcher, and the Angels wil be paying most of the contract.

Roundup

Random links on sports and in general.

Lebron led the All-Star voting for the NBA All-Star game.

Wade Phillips gets a two-year extension.

Phillies re-sign an important outfielder.

Royals will be a playoff contender with this signing. AHAH

Miguel Cabrera is no longer an alcoholic. Michael Rosenbergs take

Mavs interested in the Kings Kevin Martin whos team is winless since he returned from injury.

No more White Chocolate from Jason Williams.

Jay Mariotti can't stop talking about Tiger.

Sean Salisbury is dirty.

Chris Kaman vs Pau Gasol.

Ozzie startin early.

Last Night

A look at what happend in the sports world last night

NBA

Cleveland beat the Lakers 93-87. Kobe is now the youngest to ever get to 25,000 points. He took 31 shots missed 19 and ended up with 31 points. Pau Gasol had 13 points but missed an easy layup at the end of the game. Lebron had 37 but wen 1-9 from three. Cavs win both matchups this year.



Denver beat the other L.A. team the Clippers by 20 last night. Chauncy Billups scored 13 in the third quater, and Carmelo had a double-double with 28 points and 10 boards.

NHL
In a battle of young stars ( Ovechkin vs Crosby) Ovechkin came out on top as the Capitals beat the Punguins 6-3.

San Jose Sharks stayed 2 points ahea dof the Chicago Blackhawks as they both won their games last night.

College Basketball

#20 Butler beat Loyola Chicago by a score of 1 48-47.

Penn St remains winless in the Big Ten as they lose to Indiana who is .500 in the Big Ten

Louisville is looking at a NIT berth after falling to Seton Hall

Florida got hot at the end of the game to knock off Arkansas

The PAC-10 is horrible as California routed Oregon by 32 last night

Ucla had a buzzer-beater to knock off the Washington Huskies.

Coaches and Violence

Three Division 1 College Football coaches have been fired this year for misconduct to players. Mike Leach (Texas Tech), Mark Mangino (Kansas) and Jim Leavitt ( South Florida). It's safe to say this is not the old days where your coach could make you practice in 110 degree heat with no water breaks and kick you when you past out. Now the Mike Leach story is interesting. Adam James was not to popular with coaches or teammates and got some love from ESPN since his dad, Craig, is a college football announcer. He sucks by the way. Now hearing Mike Leach go off about the firing and subject on hand on a ESPN interview was classic. Did he make a mistake putting Adam James in a shed? Yes of course he did, but let's not forget to blame ESPN who never gave Leach a chance in this. Texas Tech football will really miss Leach since nobody knew about the program before he came. (Leach, please go to Illinois and coach). Now when I heard Mark Mangino was abusive I laughed. I figured he got mad cuz some kid ate the last hot dog or something. Now that I see, Mangino does have a temper! NSFW. His punishment was to be sat on by Mangino. UGH!. Kansas did do a good thing in hiring Turner Gill, who is balck, so Charles Barkely will be happy he was hired. Oh wait, he only wanted Auburn to hire him? Nice job on the race relations Chuck. Now Jim Levaitt, I am not to sure what happend. All I know is he choked and hit a kid. So hes out and South Florida now has Skip Holtz as coach. Which I'm sure his dad, Looney Lou, is happy about. The one program in these three that will take a step back si Texas Tech. Losing Leach and his awesome offense to Tommy Tubberville will probably bring Texas Tech back to mediocrity. So coaches beware! The NCAA is after you. You may want to choke your players, but DON'T! Just get pissed(NSFW) and have your face turn red like your head is going to explode.

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