Sports Wrap
Light posting today because I've spent the evening working on dissertation editing. Just a few thoughts on the weekend's sports before I crash.
My cousin BJ's juco team won its regional tournament to keep its perfect record intact and advance to the national tournament. I suspect BJ will be in demand at a number of women's college programs after this run. Good for him!
UH swept ANOTHER ranked team this weekend, Louisiana-Lafayette, on the road, and was rewarded with a two-spot bump in the rankings, to #8.
The UH men's basketball program got an invite to the NIT. That's a good step in the right direction for a program that's been terrible for a decade. Kudos to Ray McCallum for getting things turned around in his second season, despite being shorthanded.
The Sooners got SCREWED by the NCAA tourney committee. After having their way with #1 Kansas, the Sooners thought they had earned a #1 regional seeding. Instead, they got dropped in the toughest regional of the tourney as a #2 seed, and Cincinnati got the #1 seed. The NCAA tourney committee apparently made the decision prior to the conclusion of the KU game, assuming OU would lose. I think the seeding was arguable -- a case could be made for Cincy -- but for the committee to make the decision before the game was finished was crap. Kelvin Sampson should have forfeited the game and rested his players for the NCAA tourney. It may work out for the best for the Sooners, though. The #2 seed will play in Dallas, and Kelvin Sampson is a master motivator when he feels his team is being disrespected. And the NCAA showed some MAJOR disrespect to Kelvin.
And on the topic of Kansas -- don't you just get the sense that their struggle in the Big 12 final is merely the beginning of their annual tourney-time swoon under Roy Williams? The guy is obviously a great coach, but he's never going to get the respect of a legend until his teams do something in Big Dance after winning so many games in the regular season.
[Posted at 23:58 CST on 03/11/02] [Link]
