Maryland
Sometime in the late '90's, a pretty good Maryland team got absolutely throttled by UCLA in the early rounds of the NCAA tournament. This gave birth to one of the great lines of unintentional comedy from college basketball, when one of the Maryland players was asked to describe the defeat (which featured, among other things, at least one alley-oop pass thrown from halfcourt) and responded: "I felt like we were in a video game." Ever since then, my brother and I have referred to an obscene sports beating as "getting video gamed."
Well, Maryland got video gamed again Saturday afternoon. Now, I don't think this year's Maryland team is going to be anything special -- my guess is the lowest 5th of the top 25 at best, bubble team at worst. So I don't want to read too much into this W. But at some point we have to look reality in the face here: the 2004-2005 Tar Heels are a national championship caliber basketball team.
Georgia Tech and Wake Forest are up this week. Neither of those wins is likely to come nearly so easily. But my gut feel is that we're going to win both of those games, and if we do that, I think we bring into play a real possibility that we could run the table in the ACC (not least because we only have to play Wake once).
I tend towards superstition, and so perhaps this is just an attempt at pulling the reverse-reverse jinx, but at some point pretending you don't think we're all that good can't be taken seriously. Now is that time.
Looking at the NCAA as a whole, you can usually narrow the field down to about 5 teams that have a real chance to win the whole thing. I haven't seen every one of these teams play, but in eyeballing it, right now I'd name North Carolina, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma State and Wake Forest.
No, I don't think Duke can win it. Yes, I know they're undefeated.
Well, Maryland got video gamed again Saturday afternoon. Now, I don't think this year's Maryland team is going to be anything special -- my guess is the lowest 5th of the top 25 at best, bubble team at worst. So I don't want to read too much into this W. But at some point we have to look reality in the face here: the 2004-2005 Tar Heels are a national championship caliber basketball team.
Georgia Tech and Wake Forest are up this week. Neither of those wins is likely to come nearly so easily. But my gut feel is that we're going to win both of those games, and if we do that, I think we bring into play a real possibility that we could run the table in the ACC (not least because we only have to play Wake once).
I tend towards superstition, and so perhaps this is just an attempt at pulling the reverse-reverse jinx, but at some point pretending you don't think we're all that good can't be taken seriously. Now is that time.
Looking at the NCAA as a whole, you can usually narrow the field down to about 5 teams that have a real chance to win the whole thing. I haven't seen every one of these teams play, but in eyeballing it, right now I'd name North Carolina, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma State and Wake Forest.
No, I don't think Duke can win it. Yes, I know they're undefeated.
posted by J at 8:53 PM
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