February 28, 2013 – 10:01 am
Love this quote from Louisville’s coach after last night’s win: “If you want to be a good basketball team, you have to go inside out.” The gotcha is that the coach is Jeff Walz, mentor of the U of L women’s team which beat Seton Hall 72-62. Not Rick Pitino, whose men’s squad battered its [...]
February 21, 2013 – 10:22 am
Because TWill always craved attention first and foremost, I’ll allow him to grab the spotlight this morning. In his first regular season appearance of the year — he’s got a 10 day contract with the Celtics — he played 13 minutes against the Lakers last night, scoring a deuce, grabbing 2 rebounds and committing 2 [...]
February 18, 2013 – 10:00 am
I’m a believer in numbers. While statistics never tell the entire tale, they help illuminate a team’s strengths and weaknesses. On occasion, they also lie. Which happened yesterday. I also believe in the eye test. Watching how a game, or the games within a game, unfold, provides significant perspective. On occasion, the eye test also [...]
February 14, 2013 – 10:05 am
While you are busy perusing every inch of Kate Upton’s bodypainted “swimsuit” in the the throne-room-only slobberfest known as Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, allow me to fill you in with the latest on our other annual winter’s delight. Otherwise known as the World of College Hoops. * * * * * ESPN’s Andy Katz turned [...]
February 7, 2013 – 9:01 am
I know this horse has been beaten so to death, it’s been lying on the ground for weeks, waiting to be carted off to a British sausage factory. I’m still going to beat it a bit more. Because I can. And, because it needs to be done. Last night in Piscataway, Wayne Blackshear fashioned his [...]
February 1, 2013 – 10:34 am
Chips? ✔ Dip? ✔ Crudités (Eat at least one little carrot and piece of cauliflower, so you can dupe yourself into thinking you’re eating healthy.) ✔ Beverages chilled? ✔ Impellizzeri’s on speed dial? ✔ These, my fellow hoopaholics, are not supplies for Super Sunday. The avocados will have to wait another day before they become [...]
January 29, 2013 – 11:15 am
Corrected 1/29 @ 4:07 pm With 2:42 to play, and Louisville leading 58-50, Gorgui Dieng missed the front end of a 1 and 1. It was the only FT U of L missed in the second half of the narrow W over Pitt. The Cards were 10/11 after the break. After Pitt’s Tray Woodall missed [...]
January 27, 2013 – 9:35 am
Paging Nate Silver. Yo, Nate, you’re a big stats guy with a world view and historical perspective. I need your help. And, if you can’t, I’ll check with Jeff Sagarin or Ken Pomeroy, or both. Because I’m wondering which was the last NCAA Men’s Basketball Champion to lose three games in a row during the [...]
January 10, 2013 – 8:12 am
Edited 1/10 at 9:45 am (Thanks to a reminder in a Facebook post by a loyal reader.) If nothing else, U of L survived it’s first test this season with Jim Burr in stripes, holding one of the whistles. Which he used as injudiciously as usual. Especially on Wayne Blackshear’s third foul. The Cardinal SF [...]
January 9, 2013 – 7:27 am
Of all the insipid controversies that crop up like brush fire when folks seem to feel the need to stand up for political correctitude, this one takes the cake. Alabama was beating up on Notre Dame the other night. It was as if the South Benders just got off the boat from Ireland, and thought [...]
