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Butler was an 8 seed last year.

A friend was once in the men's room with Tim McCarver. McCarver left without washing his hands.

Don't have any data, but I wouldn't rule out that coaches are control freaks so letting players freelance [make decisions based on the game as it comes to them rather than other factors] is not what coaches want.

If RM had a lot of hair, he could be the mayor.

The odds are only slightly in the house's favor. You should get a winning streak in there some time to put you ahead. Then quit. That is the hardest part. Congratulations on the wedding. As for the marriage. . ., eh, like I know anything.

As a Fordham grad, '91, I have no idea what Fordham has done to get itself into the elite status. NYC is probably a hotter commodity than it was in the late 80s-early 90s when the crack wars were happening. SLU could catch Fordham in academics, where it will lose out is starting salary of recent grads (east coast jobs just pay more), and experience, STL is not NYC. I would not put Fordham in the ranks of the other three, as there is no way I could have gotten into them.

Michigan State, with they way they rebound/defend, scares me. They need the right officials to really dominate, but they got athletes.

Yes to five seed!! as the four seed is also an upset special. With some luck, you can go sweet 16 by beating a twelve, then a thirteen. If you do have to beat a four, the difference between a four and five may not be too far.

Those stats, save turnovers, tell me that the games SLU plays in have few shots taken. I am sure UNC's 'four corners' teams could boast of similar stats, yet that doesn't tell the real story. Any team that consistently goes deep into the shot clock will have similar numbers, without that much regard for talent. SLU is talented but those numbers don't tell me that.

While stats can be picked apart and re-packaged to fit your agenda, whatever side you are on, I submit that the team is better. Evaluating each individual part does not tell near enough of the story.

I believe that Cal Ripken actually hurt his team by having people, including himself, focus on the streak. He might have been able to perform better, over the course of the season, had he taken a day off here or there. But he, and the Orioles, became a slave to the streak. If someone is slumping, give him a day off, but you can't do that with the streak. A minor injury that would make a back-up a better choice on that particular day? No can do, not with the streak.

Fred McGriff deserves to be in 490+ HRs, with string bean body, so I say no on the roid question. The thing against him is that a first baseman who hit a lot of home runs and those are not that rare. When thinking of first basemen of that era, who was the best? second best? The roid question clouds the answers, but you aren't clearly in the top two [for position players], it is difficult, but not impossible, to make a case for you. Larkin should get in. My rant against Cal Ripken--using a high school analogy, he was in the top ten of his class academically, and he won the attendance award. Let's not confuse one with the other. His is definitely a HOFer, but not a demi-god. I have to get that off my chest every now and then.

As for who was there, there is ample TV footage, maybe even some B-Roll, to get the identities of some of the students.

http://www.fordhamsports.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/123011aab.html# Should hold up the conference rpi a little bit.

Thanks for the correction, and fast.

By the looks of things on the schedule bar on the side, the Billikens have seven away A-10 games and nine home A-10 games. I try to be like Santa and check things twice, but that is the way it looks. Apologies if this has been covered before.

At some big schools, there are grad assistants whose job it is to walk athletes to and from class, to make sure they attend class. How the court date didn't get on the calendar stumps the imagination.

He's a fan of the 70s and 80s Bosox. I am sure that is his defense.

Been reading the Xavier board and they are mostly 'not us, not us' There are some sane posters, but mostly it is laying the blame on UC, forgetting that it was their guy who started the physical part of it.

It seems like a punch that connects is dealt with more severely than a punch that whiffs. I don't know if I agree with that methodology. The intent is the same, one punch lucky, the other less so.

I take over-achievers to mean that, compared to recruiting classes and past performances, these teams are stepping up their game. I wouldn't mind a six seed in that you play an 11. You might be able to beat an 11 even it you have jitters in the opening minutes.

Oddly enough, the radio feed on 101.1 was about three seconds behind the tv. Usually it is the other way around.

I can't argue for him getting court time, but he seems to be out of the mix until ???? I kind of feel bad for him in that he transferred from a (much) lesser program where he excelled to a program where he hasn't logged meaningful minutes in two years. I would not be surprised if the program is recruiting 'over' him by year's end. It is a good problem to have quality people on the bench. Ah, well.

I think they will be in New Mexico, or maybe STL.

I appreciate your analysis. I go to site called betfair.com. I can't bet on it, not that I would anyway. As opposed to giving a point spread, they do allow buyers and sellers of futures contracts to come together to settle on a fair price. They can bet on the spread, winning, points etc. Most college bb games are going to be rather under subscribed so a deep fluid market will be hard to find, if they are even on the board. On a related note, intrade.com does the same thing for political events. Will Obama get re-elected? (About 50%) Will Herman Cain be the nominee? (Even with his 'bubble', he never got above 10%.)