Bad Day for Team Slavik as we head to the Sweet Sixteen. Texas' loss hurt, we had them going to the Elite Eight. Wisconsin hurt as well. Another Elite Eighter. All of our Final Four teams are still competing (Florida, Kansas, Georgetown and Ohio State) and our eventual champion Ohio State, beating Florida, is still alive, but barely.
I'm learning why people hate refs. The Oden non-flagrant foul call on a foul that is in the book under the definition of flagrant foul. The philosophy that says refs don't want to decide games by their calls, is BS. Oden would have decided the outcome via a stupid foul. As it was he got a cheap shot in for free.
The Strawberry block/charge blown call decided a game. It was the wrong call that turned the tide. An officials nightmare for sure.
Illinois I thought also got hurt by a bunch of non-calls made by refs late. They played better than expected, better than they showed most of the year and nothing to show for it.
Chalk continues to rule, Vanderbilt (6 seed) and UNLV (7 seed) are closest to Cinderella. Going to miss VCU who might have been closer to true definition of Cinderella as a 12 seed. Their point guard, Eric Maynor, has a lot of Reggie Miller in him, hitting big shots with the guts of an stone-cold assasin. Lots of respect for that guy.
Here's hoping Tennessee loses before Coach Summit decides to show up at the next mens basketball game with her chest painted to pay back Coach Pearl. Get a room coaches.
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BRACKETS!!! Kudos to CBS Sportsline for their on-line bracker set-up for office pools. It's a great way to track how you are doing vs. everyone else in your pool. In years past, you used to have to speculate how well/poorly you were doing versus your competition. Team Slavik is currently 27th out of 32. We need Ohio State to run the table and virtually everything else to go right to get in the money. Oops, I mean third place.