Some Thoughts On This Weekend
February 25, 2007 7:06 pm by Big Willie StyleI watched quite a few of the games this weekend, and here’s some quick thoughts, from the top of the league, to the bottom.
Georgetown looked real strong. Whether or not Jeff Green wins the conference MVP, he’s the best player in the league this year. Pitt’s a real good team, even with Gray at 60% or so, and the Hoyas looked real good. They’re the best team in this league.
For the first time all year, Pitt is not the favorite. Perhaps this loss will motivate them. They better be ready this week though, because their trip to Marquette will be more than tough, because if anybody plays more physically than Pitt, it’s the Golden Eagles.
Louisville is a top 15 team. They played without Palacios and probably got UConn’s best game of the year so far, and they still took care of business. Pitino’s offense is incredible.
Notre Dame is on quite a roll. They took a shot off the bat from Marquette and rebounded to easily take the game. Here’s your upset Big East tournament champion.
Marquette plays as hard as anyone I’ve seen in a while. You have to give them credit for that. But they have nothing up front. If they couldn’t stop the Irish up front, how do you think they’ll do against Gtown, Pitt or the ‘Ville?
Syracuse impressed me. I thought they would lose to PC, and they outplayed them in Rhode Island. Nichols is quite a player. The Cuse’s situation has now instantly gone from desperate to “on the brink.” If they can get one win this week, they should be in the dance.
Villanova played Rutgers, so of course they looked good.
Providence had their chance to take a step towards a 10-6 season. But they flat out blew it. Their reward, the NIT.
DePaul played Cincinnati, so of course they looked good.
UConn will give some team a real tough game on Wednesday. Hopefully they can have a good run in the NIT to build momentum for next year, which should be very good.
St. John’s. 10 points in the first half at home! I wish they weren’t making the Big East tournament, because they made our league look bad.
5 Responses to “Some Thoughts On This Weekend”
I did get to catch some of the UCONN game. I liked the way the Hartford Civic Center felt — it seemed like the crowd was earnestly behind the team. Even when the Huskies fell behind, the crowd didn’t get frustrated with or down on the team. It would’ve been good for the Huskies to have that game, but alas, it wasn’t to be.
I was also impressed by how patient Louisville was on offense.
Also caught some of the Wisconsin/Ohio State game. Conley has impressed me, but I’m not a huge Oden fan. He had what…four rebounds? I still think Wisconsin’s better than OSU, and I don’t think OSU is that good at all. Only Florida has been truly impressive to me this year as a heavyweight.
North Carolina too.
UConn traditionally has very fair weather fans. When they’re good, they show up in massive numbers, when they suck, they’re no where to be found. I guess that’s true with most schools, but certain places, like the Cuse and Notre Dame, aren’t as bandwagonny, that’s right, bandwaggony, as the Huskies.
I was at the UConn game and I have to say that the place was full again except for the student section. It was rockin’ and it did get quite noisy. I did take another picture of the student section and passed it along to someone that can post it here. We already showed our displeasure with the students when I took that picture at the Rutgers game. It’s not much different this time. If there is anyone that is bandwagonny it’s the students, SHAME on them again for not coming out on a Sunday afternoon to support their team. I’m sure that the students being there would not have made a difference in the outcome of the game but it’s always great to look up and know that you are being supported in hard times. Who knows, if they had been showing up all year maybe it might have made a difference at this stage in the season. I do know that it can’t be a good thing as a player when you look up and see the non student crowd there screaming and no students in the end zone. UConn students >>>> bandwagonny……
I guess that Jimmy B isn’t the only one unhappy with the lack of students at the game.
Here’s a quote from Calhoun in the Hartford Courant this morning.
Calhoun on the announced sellout crowd of 16,294, which included about 1,000 empty seats: “I’d like to see more students here. There [were] only two more times to see us. The people that were here were terrific. …
2/28/2007 I see in the paper today, the students were camping out for tonights game against Villanova. I guess they can camp out in the cold for a game on campus but can’t get up on a Sunday morning and take a bus to Hartford. I hope they will get more involved next year. Thanks Coach Calhoun for a great job and thanks to the players for a great effort.
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