Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basketball, Blake Griffin, College Basketball, College Sports, NCAA, NCAA Basketball, Oklahoma Sooners, Sports
Blake Griffin is probably the best player in college basketball right now (Carolina and UConn fans, sit down — I know that you think Tyler Hansbrough and Hasheem Thabeet are more due, but don’t bother trying to convince me). The guy can get to the inside whenever he wants; he just muscles through other players to get there. His edgy offensive play allows him to be elusive and forces defenses to improvise a plan — that usually doesn’t work — to stop him.
Just wanted to say, I’m damn glad that college basketball is back and booming.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basketball, College Basketball, College Sports, Drexel, Intense Games, NCAA Basketball, NCAA Sports, Pennsylvania, Sports
I love college basketball. Always have. The sheer amount of emotion that’s put into play during games is intense. You have to love it. If you don’t, that’s your opinion, but I’m almost certain that your heart is black and your mind is in a tizzy.
Thanks to school being called off today due to snow, it’s been a day full of college basketball (what else is there to do? Can’t drive anywhere due to the peril of the weather, and there’s nothing else to do besides read, which is what I usually do when I watch sports anyhow).
At 10 AM, Pennsylvania and Drexel played, with Drexel squeaking out a 66-64 win. I’m not too familiar with either team’s players (though I won’t be forgetting Drexel’s tumble with Duke a few years ago, which was highly entertaining to watch), but a Drexel player missed a free throw with about 21 seconds left that gave Drexel a chance.
Freshman Zack Rosen drove the length of the court, took a few steps into the key with a left dribble, flipped the ball to his right and threw a pass to a cornering player that drilled a three, drawing the score 65-63.
Drexel came back down, hit one free throw, and missed the other. 66-63.
Zack Rosen jacked up a horrible shot with two seconds remaining, and was sent to the line. The freshman missed the first shot, drilled the second, intentionally missed the third, and a Pennsylvania player nearly (well, he missed by about a foot, but that’s besides the point) scored with a floater in the key.
That’s only a preview of what’s to come as the season unwraps now to ensue.
Filed under: General | Tags: Big 12, College Football, College Sports, Comebacks, Dominance, LSU Tigers, NCAA, NCAA Football, SEC, Troy Trojans
With the Troy Trojans leading the LSU Tigers 31-10 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, everything was more than swell for the Trojans.
Until they realized they were beating a prominent SEC-maligned Tigers team who had just won the national title last year, despite the fact that Jarrett Lee — their Achilles heel — has been their ‘leader’ up to this point.
LSU scored 30 points — READ: THIRTY — in the fourth quarter to win the game 40-31.
One of my college football-watching friends texted me, “LSU is getting killed by Troy.” I looked on the ESPN.com scoreboard, and low and behold, Troy [was] leading 31-3.
I wake up this morning to check out any news on ESPN.com, and I see the headline “LSU rallies.” I click into it, figuring LSU won, and just that they did, hammering the Trojans for 30 points in the final quarter.
Those SEC teams are fast. They can score fast, too. No lead is ever safe when you’re matched up with them.
Just thinking: if ‘Bama and Texas Tech do indeed play each other in the national title game (same situation for Texas and Florida, if they play each other; I’ll refer to one as the Big 12 and the other as the SEC), and the Big 12 team has a lead and the SEC team is down late, if the SEC team comes back and wins, the game could prove to be apocalyptic considering everybody’s taunting prior to the completion of games.
Oh, forget it.
