Wednesday:
- Kyle Tucker is doing yeoman's work at the McD AA Game this week. Good piece on the
****** 2012 high school basketball class.
- Speaking of, been interesting to discover that Calipari's freshman-based gamble depends so much on the quality of the overall freshman class. Makes sense, of course. When the freshman class sucks, bet big on experienced teams.
- Still can't get over Booker and Ulis being lottery picks.
- Seems the narrative is that the cavernous arena will help UNC, whose offense relies less on the 3, BUT...
a) UNC hasn't been UNC without Paige being electric from the perimeter. That's how they've become so good of late. Without Paige being a stud, they're just a good not great team.
b) Does the arena fortify Syracuse's zone?
- Anyway, that ********* in Houston illustrates one more turn of bad luck for UK basketball in the NCAA Tourney under Cal- getting into a rock fight in that place after tearing up the nets against UNC.
- I don't care what anyone says- UConn's monopoly on women's basketball is dumb, boring and in no way good for the sport.
- I like me some Thad Matta, but it might be time for a change of scenery. He's kind of losing it up there.