The title of this post details my thoughts over the last 7 seconds of last night's Texas-West Virginia tournament matchup, when WV's Kevin Pittsnogle drained a 3 from about 23 feet out to tie the game with 8 seconds left, only to have Texas come right back down the court and sink a 3 to win in the final second.
One other thought about last night's tournament action: I'm kind of glad that I didn't go on record complaining about Gonzaga's 3 seed - I had them pegged as a 1, because I've been biased toward the Bulldogs for a few years now, and because I thought Memphis was too weak for a 1 seed.
"Fuh fuh fuh, strength of schedule, fuh fuh fuh," you might say.
Yes, but a lot of those strong UNLV teams from the late '80s and early '90s played in the PCAA, which was a conference composed of UNLV, Nevada School for the Blind, California Triple Amputee Tech, Lodi ITT Institute, the Elko Sisters of the Poor, and a couple of other schools - and they still got their 1 seeding. St. Joe's, a 1 a couple of years ago, played Cannelton 3 times. And several of those DePaul teams from the early '80s (R.I.P., Ray Meyer, by the way) were top-seeded and fell in the first round (this was before the tournament went to 64 teams).
So you know what you can do with your "strength of schedule" argument.
But the 'Zags played like a 1 for about 37 minutes last night. Unfortunately, regulation college basketball games last 40 minutes. Rats. Credit UCLA (damn them) for hanging in there and not owning a dictionary so they wouldn't know the meaning of the word "quit."
Oh, and a mighty roar was heard across the land as top-seeded Duke fell. Hooray, I guess ... I don't have any animosity toward Duke. They run a clean program and win games the right way. (So let's damn their success!)
With the fall of Bradley and Gonzaga, I have approximately two teams left to root for, and they play each other tonight. You can probably guess who they are. One will lose tonight, and one will lose to UConn on Sunday. They probably don't know that yet, though. Hopefully no one will tell them.
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