Exciting win for Kansas in overtime and a great game overall. I didn’t even mind Billy Packer.
There could well be an equally exciting game Tuesday night when Stanford plays Tennessee for the women’s championship. Can Candace Parker, first woman ever to dunk in an NCAA tournament game, overcome her shoulder injury and lead the Vols to a repeat title (and eighth overall; Stanford has won it all twice)?
And if you didn’t hang around for Monday’s post game show you missed the Jayhawks climbing a Werner ladder — “Official Ladder of the NCAA® Basketball Championships” — to cut down the net. There isn’t anything that isn’t available for marketing these days.
I have to admit… it seemed like Memphis lost that game more than Kansas won it.
Then again, I was cheering for the Tigers.
For the greater part of the college basketball season I’ve heard the talking heads bring up the fact that Memphis was not a particularly good freethrow shooting team.
I recently saw an interview with head coach John Calipari in which he addressed that issue by stating that by doing the math one could say that increasing their overall percentage points from the line by 10% would only translate to an extra 2 to 3 points a game.
I’ll bet he wishes he had had those extra 2 to 3 points at the end of regulation last night. I’m thinking about the 3 freethrows their starting gaurds, Rose and Douglas-Roberts, missed in the last 16 seconds of the second half.