Big W in Iowa City

ET gave Iowa the business and then Big D put the babies to bed with 2 huge defensive plays as the Bucks escaped with a huge W. This is about all I'm going to say on the Iowa game because Sunday's game is just as big.

As for Sunday's game, Millsy and I will be watchingit from a beach bar in Florida. Bloop bloop.

Tabbies pitching

The Tigers took on Venezuela today in a spring training game in Lakeland, Florida. The pitching was again very inconsistent. D-Train and Nate Dogg both struggled with their command, walking 5 in 6 combined innings of work. Miner is looking more and more like our number 5 starter (by default). On a positive note, the bullpen was awesome today! Lyons, Seay, and Dolsi combined for 3 shutout innings and 0 walks. Hell of a job! The Tabs take on Panama tomorrow and hopefully the pitching staff limits the walks. Just over a week until we watch the Tabbies live in person! Holla!

4 days til knees on bows all up in my face!

Four teams to deep in tourney

Holla! Only 4 days til spring break gets the business. Now on to hoops...

With selection Sunday less than two weeks away let me throw at ya 4 teams who have the goods to make it deep in the tournament.

Kansas
North Carolina
UCLA
Pittsburgh

You may have anticipated Pitt and Carolina to be in this group but Kansas and UCLA? Well, all 4 of these teams have exceled in 4 key predictive areas- average adjusted scoring margin (AASM), adjusted offensive efficiency, adjusted defensive efficiency, and effective field goal percentage. These statisics and descriptions can be found at www.kenpom.com and www.raynondsrankings.com. Check those 2 websites out. They are full of tons of useful predictive information. During championship week I will update the top 4 multiple times so holla back frequently. Before I go let me mention that as a today Kansas is the best equipped team to make a deep run in the tourney as they are in the top 20 in all 4 of the predictive categories.

Florida and books galore here we come!

Peace

Tampa forecast

The current weather projections for our Florida spring break arrival Saturday are 79 degrees and sunny. The only one who could get more fired up for that is Gus Johnson. Of course he goes crazy after a 2 yard carry on 3rd and 5.

Holla

Work

I just remembered how much I despise working the frontdesk. Big week coming up though with the start of the World Baseball Classic, NCAA basketball conference tourneys, and of course the long awaited arrival of holla time in '09 (spring break week). Peace, tranquility, happiness. Holla!

5 days til the truffle shuffle goes down in some sunshine

A special thanks goes out to Millsy who was able to get a hold of our hotel and confirm that we had at least 2 beds. It would have been bad news bears to have only 1 bed for 4 dudes.

One more quick note: the Florida Gators remind me of Buzz Killington after they played me like a two-bit fiddle by losing to an inconsistent Tennessee squad yesterday.

3-point defense

One thing that I've noticed this week watching college hoops is defenses over-playing the 3-point shooter resulting in easy dueces. I've particularly noticed Ohio State doing this. It really gets me going because I believe you should defend the two first and the recover to defend the 3. A great 3 point shooting may make 40 % of their 3-point shots which means they are missing 60% or more. I'll take those odds. Next post I'll get fired up about the metric system. Stay tuned and remember... when in doubt, whip it out!

Holla