1. PYB nailed this one, not that it was a surprise. The Jayhawks checked in with their annual second-round choke job and checked out of the NCAA basketball tournament. No heart, no balls, no scoring. Kansas was completely dominated by Northern Iowa all game, and only got within two points late in the game due to the desperate pressure they applied.
Not sure why that same sense of urgency wasn't there from the tip, but it wasn't. The best part was watching KU panic with 15 minutes remaining, taking bad shots time after time and forgetting to box out 16 times as UNI dominated them on the offensive glass. Bottom line, when refs bail you out all regular season, your team won't be tourney tough.
2. Kudos to the NCAA selection committee for screwing St. Mary's, Gonzaga and UNI on their seeds. Two of those three were rated all season. The committee's lack of foresight (and rigging the seeds for Duke) caused its supposed #1 overall seed to lose in the second round. Then they forced a top-15 Gonzaga squad to play a #1 seed two hours from its home campus in round 2. Not smart. And somehow Texas got an 8 seed, when the Horns hadn't beaten a good team in months.
3. Thanks to ESPN for hyping the Big East all year. From all the propaganda the network spews, you'd think the conference were actually NBA divisions. Then fans got to witness Georgetown getting blasted by Ohio, Pitt get outclassed by Xavier, Notre Dame lose to Old Dominion and Villanova get owned by St. Mary's.
4. Thanks to the selection committee's David Stern-esque rig job, Baylor is the biggest obstacle between Duke (the worst #1 seed in NCAA history to date) and the Final Four.
5. Thanks to Juice for this totally unrelated entry...
6. On another unrelated note, Tiger Woods blessed us all with his first interview since his scandal began. He said he starting banging whores, because he had quit practicing Buddhism. Huh?
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