NCAA Thoughts

[dlgood]

The NCAA Tournament Pool has reached a Final Four. Depending upon the National Champion, the pool winner will be:
Connecticut - sistakaren; Duke - durham Entry 1, h. yiu; tung, Georgia Tech - dlgood; Oklahoma State - stars91

At this point, based upon talent on the floor, I'd favor Connecticut. Based upon the quality of wins throughout the tournament, I'd say Oklahoma State.

I did vote in the NCAA/Pontiac "All Tournament Team" online, though I have something of a lesser qualification since the first tournament I can remember actually following was 1982, when Patrick Ewing and Michael Jordan were college Freshman. My picks:

C Lew Alcindor, UCLA 1967-1969 (Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
F Christian Laettner, Duke 1989-1992
F Jerry Lucas, Ohio State 1960-1962
G Gail Goodrich, UCLA 1963-1965
G Bobby Hurley, Duke 1990-1993

I was going post deep thoughts on one topic or another, but I'm just gonna veg.

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Comments

[stars91.livejournal.com]

I'd almost rather see Georgia Tech or Conniticut win instead of Oklahoma State, even though that's who I picked. One of the guys at my office will win our pool if OK wins, and I'd just as soon see anyone but him with the pot money, so I'm rooting in another direction!

Finished up my voting for the Pontiac All Tournament Team. I doubt many of my guys will be picked, as I voted more for who I liked and not for who was probably the best player for that position. And no, I did not choose Steve Alford for one of the guards! Not to say I didn't give it a little thought though! *g* I did have to go with Isiah Thomas, as he has *always* been my favorite Hoosier!!!

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

And I'd have loved to vote for Juan Dixon, but he just wasn't on the list.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Two Duke players on your all-time team? My mom would love you. I never voted in the poll, but I spent a long time during commercial breaks constructing my team. I too went with Alcindor by acclamation and Laettner by paucity of imagination. I had Jordan and Oscar Robertson as my backcourt. Small forward still troubles me. But since my memory is exactly my stubling block here, Jerry Lucas does seem appropriate.

Good luck with Georgia Tech and your brackets. I'm pretty certain that the winner of UConn-Duke will take it all. Oklahoma State has been impressive, but I'd really, really love to see an all-ACC final. (I hadn't known until I Googled just now that there was an all-Big 10 final in 1976, so I was certain that the Big East and Big Eight were the only conferences ever to compete against themselves in the Championship Game.)

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I feel a little off about picking two Duke players, because I hate Duke. And I especially hated Laettner - but based on performance... Excepting Hurley's meltdown against UNLV in the 1990 title game, the two of them were the best tournament players I've ever seen. (Although they kind of fake the list up, by slotting Laettner as a Forward instead of Center.)

Maybe you took David Thompson as Small...

I'd really, really love to see an all-ACC final.

Me too. And I'd like to see Tech win, if nothing else, because seeing Duke lose in the Final Four makes the pain of Maryland's loss to them in the 2001 FF go away a little. Plus, bracket rights...

[sistakaren.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna wiiiiinnnnn....hee hee hee!

Just kidding. But damn, I'm glad that Dook went down last night. I really think that this is Emeka's year for UConn to win. I do. Though the bracket I predicted them to win in was the third bracket I did. Hehe. I can't believe that Tech made it this far. My ACC dark horse to go far was Wake Forest. Hmm. Interesting...

I, too, have much love for Juan, yet hate Laettner. What a damned tool Laettner is. But I adore Juan Dixon.

YOu probably are gonna win

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer Tech to win, out of Conference Solidarity - because we could at least bask in reflected glory. Am still shocked by Tech's success, though I had both Tech and Wake in regional finals.

Everybody I know respected Laettner as a college ballplayer, and despised him as a person. Everybody loves Juan. He's awesome. Plus, here in DC we've spent the last six years getting inundated with Human Interest stories about the Role Model-ness of Juan (he is that great a story).

Too late?

[ralkana.livejournal.com]

Is it too late for a PFD Panda icon? I've been meaning to get one to you for a while, but I was sick. And hey, boating season's just starting, at least in my neck of the woods! *g*



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[dlgood.livejournal.com]

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[dlgood.livejournal.com]

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