Musings about sports in general, & Cricket in particular. With baseball season coming up, will look into that, too. And lots of good cricket in 2007, including the World Cup.
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20060313
Dateline: Greensboro
The Day After. The ACC Tournament is over; the tents are folded. The brackets are finished. And Duke, for the 16th time, is ACC Champion, bettering the 15 title mark held by their rivals 7 miles down the road, the NC Tarheels. This time, they beat the new kids on the block, Boston College, who had won 3 straight Big East titles before joining the ACC. The Eagles announced their presence with authority, but it was the Blue Devil's day.
I had picked the Tarheels to win. They seem to be peaking at the right time. Last year, of course, the Heels didn't win the ACC but still wound up winning the national title. Boston College just had the Heels number in the Saturday game.
With 6 teams in the NCAA, & the other 6 in the NIT, the ACC has proved itself to be the dominant conference in college ball this year. Cannot think of another conference that can boast that.
Some of the NCAA parings were strange: why is Gonzaga only a 3 seed. I would have picked them as a 1 seed. You can see that East Coast bias creeping in, as both Villanova & Connecticut (who LOST in their conference championship, by the way) were given #1s, while Gonzaga (who won their conference, both in the regular season & tournament) winds up where they are. If you look at it, all the #1 seeds are East of the Mississippi River. Coincidence? Maybe. Of all the #1s, I think only Duke (maybe) will reach the Final 4.
And in the World Baseball Classic? Japan wuz robbed, as they used to say in Brooklyn.
3:03 PM
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