The Need to Focus

Yeah, North Carolina won by 21. BUT, Eastern Kentucky got within 4 in the second half. What is it going to take for the Heels to learn to focus their intensity and ability for a full 40 minutes? Their lapses in concentration are going to be their downfall.

Roy Williams lost his sister last night. She had been ill for some time and had been in a facility in Charlotte. Our prayers go out to Ol' Roy and his family.

So, other than Duke losing, no other real upsets to talk about. Michigan State(9) beat Marquette(8), and Xavier(9) beat BYU(8), but in those 8-9 games it is expected.

We weren't especially surprised by Duke losing. Mike Cry said after the game, "One of the things about success is sometimes you are going to lose." Huh? We could spend an entire hour explaining why this Blue Satans team has not attained "success" this year, but, for now, we'll just be satisfied that Gerald "Elbow" Henderson and the rest of his teammates will be watching the Big Dance on CBS in their dorm rooms this year.

If you are going to watch just one game tomorrow, check out the Wisconsin-Texas A&M Corpus Christi match-up at 2:45. This could be the big upset of the day.

Oh, and we are 11-5 today. We called the Duke game, but the Marquette injury caught us by surprise. The big Vandy win was strange. Let's see how they fair against Washington State. Are the Commodores on a roll?

Would we change our predictions if given another chance? No. Butler is over-rated, and Gonzaga should have beat Indiana. Boston College was looking extremely vulnerable coming into the game with Texas Tech. We did consider Bobby Knight's record in the Big Dance, and that he puts so much pressure on his teams to win that, unless they are remarkably talented that they falter. But, as relaxed as he seemed to be in the past week we felt sure he could at least beat BC.

If you believe in prayer (or even in God), please pray for a teenage athlete named Will Dicus who is dying of cancer. He has a brain tumor and a tumor in his chest. The prognosis is not good. He is a helluva baseball player who may not make it to opening day.

Obtenir quelque sommeil.