This just in …. The First Four are now to two.
Games that is. There are still six teams in the running. Two "play-in" games were played last night. There are two more tonight.
Clemson and UNC Nashville won last night. They now get the opportunity to be annihilated by a No. 1 seed.
The “First Four” is the latest gimmick by the NCAA to build hype for an event that does not need any.
Every office in America is losing valuable productivity this week as employees pore over their NCAA tournament bracket.
Let me save you the trouble. Kansas will win. This tournament is always dominated by guard play, and Kansas has the best guards.
In the meantime, both Temple and Villanova will face stern first-round challenges.
Temple is going all the way to Tucson, Ariz., to face cross-state rival Penn State on Thursday.
Villanova will square off with George Mason on Friday.
Both teams will have to play very well if they want to avoid the dreaded “one and done,” something Temple has been all too accustomed to in the past few years.
I’m still looking for someone to tell me how much money changes hands during this tournament. It must be bigger than the GNP of some small countries.
The fascinating thing about the NCAA tournament, especially during the first round, is the number of games being played at the same time, and the distinct possibility of seeing one “fantastic finish” after another.
It’s one of the truly unique – and great – moments in sports.
And it takes our minds off the increasing storm clouds forming over the Phillies, who seem to lose another starter each day. Now Placido Polanco has re-injured the elbow he had surgery on in the off-season. That can’t be good, especially when the team tries to downplay it. That injury bothered Polanco all last season. He joins Chase Utley, Brad Lidge and Domonic Brown on the shelf.
We have all been focusing on the Phils’ brilliant starting pitching. We haven’t spent too much time thinking about something else. This lineup is getting very old, very fast.
But that’s for next week and beyond.
For now, let the Madness begin. Remember, put the house on Kansas.
Games that is. There are still six teams in the running. Two "play-in" games were played last night. There are two more tonight.
Clemson and UNC Nashville won last night. They now get the opportunity to be annihilated by a No. 1 seed.
The “First Four” is the latest gimmick by the NCAA to build hype for an event that does not need any.
Every office in America is losing valuable productivity this week as employees pore over their NCAA tournament bracket.
Let me save you the trouble. Kansas will win. This tournament is always dominated by guard play, and Kansas has the best guards.
In the meantime, both Temple and Villanova will face stern first-round challenges.
Temple is going all the way to Tucson, Ariz., to face cross-state rival Penn State on Thursday.
Villanova will square off with George Mason on Friday.
Both teams will have to play very well if they want to avoid the dreaded “one and done,” something Temple has been all too accustomed to in the past few years.
I’m still looking for someone to tell me how much money changes hands during this tournament. It must be bigger than the GNP of some small countries.
The fascinating thing about the NCAA tournament, especially during the first round, is the number of games being played at the same time, and the distinct possibility of seeing one “fantastic finish” after another.
It’s one of the truly unique – and great – moments in sports.
And it takes our minds off the increasing storm clouds forming over the Phillies, who seem to lose another starter each day. Now Placido Polanco has re-injured the elbow he had surgery on in the off-season. That can’t be good, especially when the team tries to downplay it. That injury bothered Polanco all last season. He joins Chase Utley, Brad Lidge and Domonic Brown on the shelf.
We have all been focusing on the Phils’ brilliant starting pitching. We haven’t spent too much time thinking about something else. This lineup is getting very old, very fast.
But that’s for next week and beyond.
For now, let the Madness begin. Remember, put the house on Kansas.
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