But first, a special comment...
Our Moment of Zens are basically weird cheesecake photos, emphasis on the weird. We would not normally post some chick just posing like in Playboy or something. You can get that anywhere. But the below picture just took us by surprise. It is "classic" in the true sense of the word. But don't worry, the bizarre Zens will continue next week. For now, Shalom.
Pitt leapfrogging over UConn is unconscionable in our opinion, clearly the Tar Heels and the Huskies are the teams to beat right now. What? Buffalo almost beat UConn? Man, forget that. Buffalo is a better team than people think and would have made it a close game with even North Carolina for about 15 minutes. We're not saying it would be a toss up between UConn and UNC, the Heels would clearly win. But it would be a yummy battle.
- March to Madness, 12/10/08
Mea culpa. We were dead wrong. Georgetown came in and absolutely shellshocked, blasted, plastered, decapitated, PWNDED UConn.
"I hated our body language early. For fleeting moments, [I] liked it, and detested it in the last eight minutes. With eight minutes to go we were down like 12, and I didn't like looking at my team. It's the first time all year I can tell you that. It was just a very, very poor performance for us. Opening Big East game, sold-out crowd, electricity in the gym and for us to perform like that . . . I apologize. I just don't know how we could play that poorly."
- UConn coach Jim Calhoun, 12/29/08
That my friends is a coach saying What The Fuck Happened. We think Calhoun should look at this stat below because not only does it summed up the night but will sum up the Huskies' season:
Yep, real life is taking over today so enjoy our column at Sports Illustrated in the meantime.
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With losses to Virginia Military and Da U, Kentucky's coach Gillispie feels that his Wildcats have room for improvement...
"I think they're starting to understand that for us to go to another level we need to carry out responsibilities intently and we have to execute much better," Gillispie said. "Because the real season is now here."
"I think our team usually gets better as the year goes on, and we usually peak at the right time."
We don't even know where to begin with that. It's akin to a hungry man saying he could eat. A marathon runner saying he was tired. Billy boy, at 9 and 3 with two of those losses done in humiliating fashion you freakin' BETTER feel your team can get better. Sheez.
Here is the official consensus top 25 blogpoll -
I have failed you, Adam!!!!!!!
1) North Carolina
2) Connecticut
3) Pittsburgh
4) Oklahoma
5) Duke
6) Georgetown
7) Gonzaga
8) Wake Forest
9) Notre Dame
10) Texas
11) Ohio State
12) Purdue
13) UCLA
14) Xavier
15) Syracuse
16) Villanova
17) Michigan State
18) Tennessee
19) Clemson
20) Arizona State
21) Louisville
22) Baylor
23) Missouri
24) Michigan
25) Minnesota
Everyone's vote can be found here.
Comments - We think Gonzaga might be a wee bit lower in the blogpoll next week. Missouri will be on the outside looking in after the ass pounding they received by a certain Native American tribe. Now the Tigers faithful are looking around and wondering who's to blame.
UNC yada yada can beat pro team at this point yada.
