And on the 7th day, we rest. And attempt to catch up on real life before Thursday evening. Or, at least attempt to. There was Selection Sunday, Bracketology Monday, Tipoff Tuesday, Intro to LaSalle Wednesday, All Day Thursday, All Day Friday, All Day Saturday and All Day Sunday. Please do not disturb. Basketball Jones is [...]
March 24, 2013 – 10:29 am
“For five and a half months, we had a heck of a lot of fun.” That was Mark Few talking, the coach of overseeded top-ranked Gonzaga. Here’s the deal, coach. March is the month that counts. Sure, your Bulldogs spent the season feasting on Portland and Pepperdine, San Francisco and Santa Clara. But, coach, that’s [...]
March 21, 2013 – 11:53 am
Before I get to the actual hoops, I gotta make two quick observations. 1. It seems as if the basketball gods are smiling down on Hoopsylvania. It’s snowing in Kentucky. Which confirms we are to be watching hoops, hoops and more hoops. Without any guilt that it’s a really nice spring day outside and that’s [...]
March 21, 2013 – 11:19 am
It didn’t take long for one UK fan I know to recover from Tuesday night’s debacle in Moon Township. In an afternoon after email, containing a link to a story about Julius Randle’s commitment to the Big Blue, she exclaimed, “OMG! Happy days are here again.” If memory serves, I received a similar missive from [...]
LEO, as always, is all over post-season hoops coverage. You can read my Tourney 101 – The ABCs of NCAA here. You can read Bill Doolittle’s in depth breakdown of the Cards here. Being a Hoosier at heart, he also has some IU perspective to consider here. Should you be inclined to consider UK’s disappointing [...]
Louisville is 21-23 in the tournament against this year’s participating schools. The Cards have losing tournament records against these participants: UCLA, Creighton, Georgetown, Gonzaga, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina and Ohio State. All-time in all games, U of L stands 440-317 against tourney teams. U of L has never played 14 of the 68: Albany, [...]
March 18, 2013 – 10:19 am
Continuing to use the cheap brand of lingo you see in the header, isn’t the morning after Selection Sunday mmmmmmmmmmm good? Unless, your team didn’t get its ticket punched. In which case, you spent last night watching “Walking Dead” instead of the Digger and Dickie V Show. If you were watching, did you happen to [...]
March 17, 2013 – 10:06 am
When I ran into my pal Harry Saturday morning, I was wearing my retro Loyola Ramblers 1963 NCAA Championship t-shirt. “I remember that game,” he said. “I watched it with my dad. “It really taught me something.” ?????? “Loyola was way behind in the second half, right? Then they came back to win.” His lesson: [...]
March 16, 2013 – 11:55 am
A quick refresher course for those who were contemplating a revenge game against Georgetown tonight in the Big East Tourney Title Tilt. Post Season Rule #2: You only play who(m) you play. So, there’s a rubber match against The Orange in a game meaningful only when it comes to bragging rights. And seeding, perhaps. If [...]
Revised 3/15 10:00 am (In the dulcet voice of Bill Graham, introducing a group at the Filmore.) “Ladies and gentlemen, the Louisville Cardinals.” Last night’s performance was the paradigm of this edition of the Cardinals, the essence of ’12-’13 U of L. Defense so suffocating at times, it could take your breath away. It certainly [...]
