BEVERLY HILLS (MI) –- Some things that I wonder about
:
-- How big were those two roadies by the Flyers? A come-from-behind win at the dreaded "Millett Dungeon” in Oxford and they then travel up to Wooster (as
Bucky Bockhorn likes to call it) and eke out a close one vs. the previously undefeated Crusaders. Nicely done, fellas.
-- BRob wasn’t alone in having an off game on Saturday –- Michael Bramos only scored 5 points in a narrow Miami Redhawk loss at Louisville.
-- I don’t want to be the turd in the punch bowl here, but where was the fury of that amazing 2nd half comeback by UD vs. Miami in the George Mason game? If the Flyers had played like that in DC, right now they would be undefeated.
-- The “box-and-one” that BG deployed vs. the Redhawks is my favorite defense for neutralizing a hot hand. Put your best junkyard dog defender on the opponent who is killing you (cough***Bramos) and zone up on the other 4 guys. Why doesn’t UD use it more often?
-- In case you are wondering, the HC game is considered a “road win” by the NCAA and not one at a “neutral site” even tho it was played at the DCU Center because UD refused to play at HC’s on-campus Hart Center. Here’s a link to the HC MB that has the explanation:
http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/thread....readid=1741104
-- Don’t you just love You Tube? I’m sure that, like me, a lot of you can watch this sh*t all day long:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZNro_h4na4o
-- Also, how cool is this video of a bee flying in slow-mo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=MymMxRvz8Rc
-- Why hasn’t somebody done this before? KG calls out TNT’s Craig Sager on his butt-ugly wardrobe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDB4h...sbybrooks.com/
-- Did former Cincy HS phenom Bill Walker of KSU get caught on tape whizzing on the sidelines during a break in the action? (keep your eye on the lower left corner):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ozV...sbybrooks.com/
-- I haven’t gone by the site to look, but have all of those bi-polar types at Mouseketeer Madness who were ready to jump off a cliff taken a step back after the X-Men beat #8 Indiana? Nice to see X rated in the Top 25, so it will mean more when we knock ‘em off.
-- So WH from the A-10 MB revises his pre-season conference rankings and moves UD from #7 to…#9? Granted, he did so before the Flyers’ recent Miami and HC road wins, but come on, dude? Here’s a link to the thread:
http://www.basketballforum.com/atlan...d-edition.html
-- WH is a
UMass aficionado and his boys followed up their big win vs. the Syracuse Orangemen by basically crapping the bed against Ooey-Pooey. WH had UMass as his #4 rated A-10 team.
-- Shouldn’t all of you Ohio State fans be just a tad bit embarrassed that your team has basically backed their ass into the chance to play for the National Championship? Then again, all of the other guys had their chance and blew it, right? My nephew Mike is probably still drowning his sorrows down in Morgantown.
-- Watched the Celtics play the Miami Heat the other night on ESPN and up there in the rafters of the American Airlines Arena is the retired jersey of…Michael Jordan??? Obviously, MJ never played for the Heat and, in fact, currently owns a piece of another NBA team, so what does he have to do with Miami?
I guess that’s when you know that your franchise has absolutely zero history going for it: when you have to resort to retiring the jersey of somebody else’s superstar.
-- Thank you, Tim Horsmon and the Lady Flyer Volleyballers for a highly entertaining season.
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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