Category: Non-Rivalry News
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“HE HAS NO COMPANY”
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UConn Women’s 78th straight win completes consecutive perfect Championship Seasons, but their Coach states emphatically: This accomplishment does NOT put him in the company of John Wooden For 20 minutes, the UConn Huskies played like the Worst-Coached team you’ve ever seen. After taking a quick 5-0 lead, the Huskies gave…
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DUKE BLOCKS HEROES
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Blue Morning, Blue Day: It Feels Like The First Time for Urgent Krzyzewski, who’d been a Foreigner to success for 9 years until Hot-Blooded Butler went Cold As Ice to lose the Trophy to the Long, Long Way From Home Blue Devils, 61-59 One of the first things that Duke Head Coach…
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DIE HARD TWO
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Indy Two: A Rocky but Super 52-50 win for Butler’s Speed-Terminators over the Final Four Godfather has them seeking a Squeakquel, against Duke’s Lethal Weapons, who Sting WVU, 78-57 The big injuries finally took their toll. Michigan State and West Virginia — both missing their injured Starting Point Guards —…
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THE ‘STORM IS GOING TO BLOW
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STORM WARNING: St. John’s interviews Steve Lavin, but the Red Storm should just talk to some Bruin fans More proof that the East Coast doesn’t really watch West Coast games: The St. John’s Red Storm is considering ex-Bruin Head Coach Steve Lavin for their current Head Coaching vacancy. St. John’s…
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5 TO 1 BABY, 1 N’ 5 — NO ONE ELSE GETS OUT ALIVE
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MR. MOJO RISIN’ — #5 Michigan State and #1 Duke Break On Through to the Final Four, slamming The Doors on Tennessee and Baylor If familiarity breeds contempt, then you can understand why some Bruin fans didn’t want Michigan State or Duke to advance to the Final Four. MSU, under…
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GIRLS GONE: WILDCATS
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Nice Brack: The Wildcats of K-State get exposed by sizzling-hot Butler, then the Wildcats of K-Y get exploited by the Mountaineers’ tight-at-first Butler, who shakes it off and helps the cheeky West Virginians bump off Calipari’s Barely Legal pussycats Hot Freshman co-eds takin’ off… for home. The #1-Seeded Kentucky Wildcats can…
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DALLY OF THE VOLS
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High VOL-tage: The 6th-seeded Volunteers will dally with the Elite for the first time ever after upsetting 2-seed Ohio State, 76-73; (5)Mich. St., (3)Baylor and (1)Duke also advance Unlike when Magic Johnson’s Michigan State beat Larry Bird’s Indiana State for a National Title, the team with the best player doesn’t always win. Evan Turner…
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PAC UP FOR VACATION
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Washington, Holiday won’t be observed in Elite Eight, as Pac-10’s furthest travelers get re-routed back to Seattle A Husky Cinderella would never do — The glass slipper would never fit. But the label of hothead may fit UW Coach Lorenzo Romar to a T (or not). Romar picked up a…
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DePaul-bearer?
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Rumors had Ben Howland burying UCLA’s “Howland Era” to go resurrect the Blue Demons, but he laid them to rest by opining that he has “zero interest” in this undertaking From Pauley to DePaul? Low-hair to O’hare? DePaul-bearer of bad news? No. UCLA Head Basketball Coach Ben Howland insists that…
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4:20 DROUGHTS BAKE BERKELEY
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Smokin’ Blue Devils weed out wasted Golden Bears: Cal — UCLA’s Pac-10 buds — can’t light it up, coughing up two 4:20 breaks without hitting any J’s, and get blitzed by #1 Seed Duke, 68-53 Stoned-cold California’s pipe dream is toast. Even with a spark from former Blue Devil Jamal Boykin, Cal…
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KANSAS: BUST IN THE WIND
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Heavily-played overall #1 Seed Kansas hits The Point of No Return — It’s 9th-seed underdog Northern Iowa who will Carry On instead, as will UW’s Dawgs, who rock Los Lobos to strike a Sweet chord for the Pac-10 You’re not IN anymore, Kansas. For the first time in 6 years, a Number One Seed…
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PITINO’S BOYS GET LICKED, BUT THIS TIME IT ISN’T CONSENSUAL
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Cal aborts Louisville’s season with a game-opening 22-4 assault, and a game-closing 15-2 spurt that headed off a comeback and sent the adulterous, extorted Coach and his Buckle-buddies packing, 77-62 Rick Pitino is a great, National Championship-winning Coach, who got falsely accused of Rape and later extorted for Abortion money…