First one interesting stat I saw this morning. The 6 teams that had to travel the farthest for their games yesterday all lost. (Something to keep an eye on today).
Second, USC - you never give an easy pass into the interior off the baseline. They were so concerned about Providence's top 2 players they allowed someone to slip right to the basket for an uncontested layup. Always make a team beat you with a jumper.
Third, at the 4 min TV TO I told my wife she could switch off the Purdue-ARK LR game if she wanted to- glad she said it was ok to leave it on. That was a 13 pt lead with 3:33 to go. If you play smart that should be almost impossible to cough up. During the next 2 min Purdue would miss 4 shots (3 in close) and have 3 TO allowing LR back into the game. Then LR simply made two huge long contested threes to get to overtime.
Baylor is always loaded with big, athletic players, but they tend to play very street ball, which comes back to bite you in March.
Miami better play better on Saturday or Wichita St will beat them. That team is so hard to score on. It's amazing how much they outrebound teams by given they are almost always giving up size. Marshall is who I was trumpeting when Hewitt was fired (actually, even before that i wrote a letter to DRad 2 yrs before Hewitt was fired saying it was time to move on and we should look at the coach who just left Winthrop). if Marshall is ever going to leave Wichita I could see it being this year, though if he doesn't that means he will either never leave or is going to wait for one of the top 5 blue bloods to open. Guy from Rock Hill SC - give him a chance to coach in the ACC.
The top 4 historic programs in the ACC are all going to need new coaches in the next couple of years (based on the age of their current coaches) - all of them would be idiots if their first call isn't to Marshall's agent. Screw what the retiring coach wants, screw getting a 'home' guy, go try to get the best.
