Saturday, March 28, 2009

Welcome to the Elite 8, and thoughts on yesterday

So yesterday I lost my first final 4 team. Syracuse could not handle Oklahoma. Johnny Flynn got hurt and as he goes, so do the Orange. Its so unfortunate because he is such a great player and fun to watch. That Oklahoma-UNC matchup will be great though.

North Carolina and Louisville absolutely rolled, which was pretty expected. Nothing really to report there, other than those teams look really good.

Michigan State survived Kansas in a game that went exactly as I expected it to. The Spartans came up big when they needed to most. Louisville will be there final challenge on the way to the final four, and that challenge should be great.

As for today we have UConn vs Missouri and Pittsburgh vs. Vilanova

Missouri will give UConn its first real test of the tournament. they will not fear them, and I think they are soaring high in confidence after hitting the century mark against "the league's best defense." Missouri takes their place in the final 4.

If Pittsburgh wants to move on, they need to play the whole way through this time. Nothing like they have in the first three games. That will not get them past Villanova. I think they will step up. They know how good this team is, and they won't slack like they have so far. Pitt moves on.

2 comments:

  1. I have UConn and Nova. Why the fuck do you always go against UConn? Also why the fuck do you like Michigan State? WTF is up with that? I am guessing you just like them because they won the national championship when you started getting into college basketball....

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  2. Actually, they made the final 4 three years in a row when I started getting into college basketball. Good picks, tough games, Go Spartans!

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