After 2 (well technically 3) rounds of tournament play we are left with 16 teams. Here are my deep (well not so deep) thoughts
1. To Call or Not Call - In the round of 32 there were a number of games were ref calls (Butler -Pitt) and non-calls (Arizona-Texas) shaped the outcomes. Personally I prefer the ref swallow his whistle under 5 seconds unless it's horribly obvious. The bigger issue I think is the inconsistency. Whatever the standard is, it should be communicated pretty clearly what the standard is....and stick with it.
2. Conferences - I find it fascinating the difference between conference pride and national fascination for college football and college basketball. Yes, there's a few notes and trash talk (you suck Big East) but it's nowhere near the level of solidarity or press fawning that bowl season has.
3. Favorites - I tend to avoid saying anyone is really a favorite as one bad game, one injury, one fluke and a school chances disappears. So how a team looks really is inconsequential..generally. tOSU wins were impressive but competition gets much tougher. Duke barely escaped the Wolverines but the only thing significant about that is Kyrie Irving doesn't exactly look himself...yet. Meanwhile KU kept rolling. Those seem to be the favorites but anything is possible.
4. Overall Quality - After all the complaints about the lack of quality teams I've generally been very happy with the tournament. Some very good teams, some fun upsets, and some great individual performances. Worrying that the tournament won't be great is much ado about nothing....
5. Wonderwoman (Adrian Palinki) will be starring on NBC this Fall....Great idea but it's on NBC so it'll fail. If only one could combine the tournament's awesomeness with wonderwoman... Come on CBS I'm looking to you...
3 comments:
1) The refs should be consistent. it seems strange that if the refs were swapped, pitt and texas would still be around.
2) i still think there's a lot of conference pride for basketball... but it's true. it's not at the level of football where you can get beaten with soap for wearing a big ten shirt in the south.
3) that wonderwoman top is unreal. it's pushing up a lot of cleavage!
I would have to say that I too think that the refs have been extremely inconsistent. I also noticed in the UM/Duke game that I think that Duke gets the NBA star treatment from the refs. There were a number of non-calls, but I am just happy that a rag tag group freshman and sophomores were able to play 3 of the #1 seeds closely all year. Hopefully they will just continue to improve.
Duke always gets the NBA stars treatment. Their players flop like Portugal at the World Cup...
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