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

[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).