Exit Sandman...

I know, we are a college hoops blog. But if we were blogging about college football, I would have given Virginia Tech our Always Be Closing Award. How can you lose a 10-0 lead with only 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter?!?!?

Congrats Boston College. You are #2 for another week.

First up, the bible gives us a preview of the Mountain West Conference. I would like to point out Mr. Pomeroy's opening statement:

This is year two of the Mountain West's grand experiment to televise its games on its own network. Unlike the Big Ten, which undertook a similar venture for the 2007-08 school year, the MWC took this step while simultaneously severing its relationship with ESPN. Because of a lack of exposure through satellite distributors, the MWC's network (called "the mtn."), and thus the vast majority of MWC basketball games, are available only to parts of a seven-state footprint in the west. The games that do appear on national television are relegated to networks that are not yet familiar to the casual sports fan (CSTV and Versus.).

In an era where the proliferation of televised games has driven the popularity of the sport to unprecedented levels, the MWC is playing a dangerous game.

Now, I said as much over a month ago when I responded to Steve Fisher's comment about getting "national" exposure:

Yeah, ummmm.... Right... I live in Los Angeles with a pretty good selection of channels on basic and cable. And I don't have The Mtn. (yes, I am pronouncing it THE MMMTNNN). Or VERSUS. Or CSTV. So how in the SAM HELL can he say we have NATIONAL TV EXPOSURE?!?!?!

Preach on, Mr. Pomeroy.

As far as what he had to say about SDSU? I'm not going to even link it. Go, just go stick your head in the sand like the rest of us and pray.


Yeah, feels good down here...

The USA Today's pre-season coaches' poll was released and it seems like universally (CSTV/Blogpoll/Coaches' poll) there are the same top five (Memphis, UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas, Georgetown), just in different orders.

Are Kentucky fans passionate or just fucking crazy? 23,313 of them showed up...for practice.


We're just talking about practice!

And it looks like Billy Donovan's back might save him from fresh technicals that the refs plan to give out this year for "bad" coach behavior. Hey, if you can't move you can't slug the motherfucker.

Hey, did you know Donald Trump (or his organization) is teaching people how to generate thousands of dollars in profit immediately? Ummmm, maybe he needs to take his own class. The man hasn't been profitable in years and has been living off of debt financing (and refinancing).

Happy Friday!