{"id":354,"date":"2008-03-15T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/saturday-conference-tournament-quick-hits\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T00:40:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:40:32","slug":"saturday-conference-tournament-quick-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/saturday-conference-tournament-quick-hits-354\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Conference Tournament Quick-Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an exciting couple of days in the world of college hoops. There have been a million things worth paying attention to. Here are 20 to start:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> The Georgia Dome is obviously cursed. I blame Bobby Petrino.<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Either the Georgia or Kentucky players are going to sleep well tonight. I wonder when the last time they played twice in a day was.<br \/>\n<strong>3.<\/strong> Seeing those two teams play in an empty arena is creepy.<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> Purdue should be ashamed of themselves.<br \/>\n<strong>5.<\/strong> So should Indiana. That was a crazy last second shot by Minnesota, though.<br \/>\n<strong>6.<\/strong> Minnesota vs. Illinois?!? Didn&#8217;t see that one coming.<br \/>\n<strong>7.<\/strong> I&#8217;m embarrassed to be a Michigan fan right now. That game against Wisconsin was disgusting. I&#8217;m not exaggerating when I say that I could have shot as well as they did. And I can&#8217;t really shoot.<br \/>\n<strong>8.<\/strong> Memphis would have got more out of a scrimmage than they did by playing Tulsa.<br \/>\n<strong>9.<\/strong> UCLA vs. USC was a classic. Both teams are poised to do some damage. I am incredibly impressed by how O.J. Mayo has played down the stretch.<br \/>\n<strong>10.<\/strong> Luc Richard Mbah a Moute left the game in the first half with an injury. He&#8217;ll reportedly be fine, but he&#8217;ll miss the game today. That&#8217;s a bit scary.<br \/>\n<strong>11.<\/strong> The Jayhawks played as badly as a team can play in the first half against Nebraska. They woke up and crushed them in the second half, but the no-show makes me a bit uneasy.<br \/>\n<strong>12.<\/strong> Either West Virginia isn&#8217;t as good as they have looked recently or Georgetown is playing great.<br \/>\n<strong>13.<\/strong> Michael Beasley is truly incredible. I wish we could have seen what he could have done on a team with some depth. He&#8217;d make it more fun to be a Miami Heat ticket holder in a hurry.<br \/>\n<strong>14.<\/strong> The hatchets are falling already &#8211; Providence and Rice have axed their coaches.<br \/>\n<strong>15.<\/strong> Xavier lost. I like the team a lot, but I am far from thrilled with their play down the stretch.<br \/>\n<strong>16.<\/strong> I find it hard to believe that there are still teams out there that have never played in the tournament, but there are at least three first-timers this year. It&#8217;s always fun to see how excited those teams and their fans are for the first five minutes of the game before they are down by 15.<br \/>\n<strong>17.<\/strong> Only three more days until the play-in game. Can you feel the excitement? No concept is more ridiculous or in need of a merciful death than that stupid game.<br \/>\n<strong>18.<\/strong> Tennessee did not play like a number one against SC. It is impressive how Lofton puts that team on his back when they are in trouble, though.<br \/>\n<strong>19.<\/strong> Vanderbilt is a bad joke. I will be very hard pressed not to bet against them in the first round.<br \/>\n<strong>20.<\/strong> Spectacular game by Wayne Ellington against Florida State. The Tar Heels are in form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an exciting couple of days in the world of college hoops. There have been a million things worth paying attention to. Here are 20 to start: 1. The Georgia Dome is obviously cursed. I blame Bobby Petrino. 2. Either the Georgia or Kentucky players are going to sleep well tonight. I wonder when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9528,4,3],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-conference-tournaments","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}