It’s been a good year for all the No. 1 seeds, who automatically wear white jerseys as the higher seed in each game, but perhaps a banner year for Caucasian post players.
When the NCAA regional finals began last night, all four of the No. 1 seeds were still alive. And all the other games to date pale in comparison to the two performances in last night’s action.
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Could we please check with NCAA officials to make sure all four teams Saturday night received the same schedule of events? This seems to have been a problem all week, what with all the blowouts. One team gets notice to show up for a game at an appointed time and the other team has a schedule that asks them to appear at a rubber chicken dinner at the hotel at the same time.
(Are you sure this schedule is right? I don’t think we’re supposed to carry the Olympic torch tonight.)
Is it too much to ask the printing vendor to tell UCLA the game starts at 6:30ish ET without telling Xavier to be at the Scottsdale Hilton at 6:45 for the presentation of the “Nice Try, Kids; Better Luck Next Year” award?
By the time Xavier realized they’d been caught on “Candid Camera” and raced over to the arena, it was too late. UCLA had already throttled the empty Xavier jerseys 76-57. (It would have been worse except for UCLA’s 10 first-half turnovers.)
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Roy Williams has maintained that having North Carolina play their Sweet Sixteen & Elite Eight games in Charlotte is not a home-court advantage.
Rick Pitino maintains that’s poppycock.
The RALEIGH NEWS OBSERVER learns thats the Louisvile coach disagrees with Williams’ assessment, as Pitino spoke with the media on Friday before his Cardinals go head-to-head with the Heels on Saturday.
(Video after the jump.)
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RICK PITINO: YOUR LEADING REVISIONIST NBA HISTORIAN: The LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL today has Rick Pitino comparing his fate with the Celtics to Bobby Petrino’s putrid run with the Falcons: “He got the same bad break I got losing the pingpong balls. … You have to have the talent, or it’s a miserable life.”
Petrino of course had nothing to do with being dogged by the defection of QB Michael Vick. But Pitino’s so-called “bad break” was when the Celts didn’t get the first pick (and a crack at Tim Duncan) in the 1994 NBA Draft. Apparently Pitino forgot that he took Ron Mercer over Tracy McGrady in the same draft and then traded draft pick Chauncey Billups, a future all-star, for a bag of magic beans.Forget bad break, that’s a self-inflicted compound fracture.
