#10 Georgetown topples #13 Louisville to take Big East Title

Paw Prints - Men’s Roundball Edition

Posted 3/11/2008 on SOX & Dawgs

With the UConn Huskies women’s basketball team about to tip-off against the Louisville Cardinals in the championship game of the Big East Tournament, let’s take a look at some other news regarding the Huskies men’s basketball team. As we know, the Big East Conference announced their All-Big East Teams yesterday . Today they announced the major award winners at the ...

Indiana Opens Big Ten Tourney Against Minnesota

Posted 3/14/2008 on Cobra Brigade

At a time when I should be really excited about IU's chances in the Big Ten and NCAA Tournaments....I'm left wondering which IU team is going to show up. Will it be the aggressive, hard charging team that runs through opponents or the team that looks confused and immature....I guess we'll find out tonight. IU opens its Big Ten Tourney slate tonight against Minnesota in a game they should ...

Georgetown Wins

Posted 3/13/2008 on D.C. Sports Bog

NEW YORK--Georgetown took advantage of 104 percent three-point shooting and foul trouble that happily kept both its centers safely on the bench to easily dispatch Villanova, 82-63 in a Big East quarterfinal this afternoon. The Georgetown student section celebrated the victory with an "N.I.T." chant directed at Villanova, which might or might be accurate. Wildcats Coach Jay Wright mourned the ...

Villanova Cries Foul

Posted 3/13/2008 on D.C. Sports Bog

I believe he got fouled. Guessing this won't be the only such sign we'll see today. Some Georgetown student apparently got her hands on this sign and ripped it, forcing the Villanova fan to tape it back together. "I guess they don't learn about destruction of property at Georgetown," one of this guy's friends said. Incidentally, not to keep beating this drum, so to speak, but the George Mason ...

Once, Twice, Three Times A Lady!

Posted 3/13/2008 on The Big Eleventh

Penn State will face Illinois today in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament and attempt to make Illinois their bitch for the third time this year (get it? three times a lady? lame?). Tip off is at 2:30, which gives us all a convenient way to check out from work for the day during mid-afternoon. Hooray headphones! Game one of this pillow fight ended 68-64 with Cornley leading the team ...

Can Any Big Ten Team Make the Final Four?

Posted 3/12/2008 on FanHouse

Pat Forde of ESPN.com has a look at the college basketball universe with just five days to go before Selection Sunday, and when he gets to the Big Ten, he writes this: Is there a Final Four contender in here anywhere? How about a fifth NCAA Tournament team? Hello? Anyone? Team to beat: Wisconsin (23) . Sizzle-less Badgers haven't lost to anyone other than Purdue since Dec. 8 -- and it says ...

Talent Gap Maybe?

Posted 3/11/2008 on The Big Eleventh

The All-Big Ten awards are out, and between first, second, third, honorable mention, all defense and all freshman, only now-injured Jamelle Cornley was given any recognition: third team, which somehow has six members. Compare that with three and four awards for some of the better programs and we have ourselves a good o'l fashion talent gap. Wow, two basketball posts in one day. Things really ...

Big Ten awards announced.

Posted 3/10/2008 on The Hoosier Report

The Big Ten announced its postseason awards today. Here's the link . The Hoosier highlights: DJ White was named Big Ten player of the year, apparently unanimously, by both the media and coaches. Eric Gordon was named Big Ten freshman of the year, apparently unanimously, by both the media and coaches. White and Gordon were both named to the all-Big Ten first team. The reason I said ...

Sunday, Glorious Sunday

Posted 3/10/2008 on Off the Tracks

Yesterday was indeed a great day. I first have to give some love to the Purdue women's basketball team as they accomplished quite a feat yesterday in winning their seventh Big Ten Tournament. In doing so they clinched their 15 th consecutive NCAA bid. The women's basketball team has clearly been the best sports program at Purdue over the last decade. They consistently have been a top 10 team ...

Famous People Like the Hoyas

Posted 3/8/2008 on D.C. Sports Bog

The Secretary of State, with Jack the Bulldog. At least a dozen shirtless members of the Georgetown crew team made their way to the front of the student section yesterday, sporting spandex shorts, painted chests, mohawks and the like. They said it "seemed like a good idea." "Pretty awesome," said a Georgetown fan sitting in front of these nearly naked rowers. "I row too, so I'm all for the ...

Pitino says Georgetown was lucky

Posted 3/8/2008 on Sidelines

Louisville played Georgetown to the wire before losing, 55-52, to finish second in the Big East to the Hoyas. It was a close win for Georgetown, which to Rick Pitino's way of thinking, has won too many close games. According to D.C. Sports Bog , here's what Pitino said in the post-game press conference: "They've been lucky. They won because they were better. And obviously good teams ...

Pitino Says Georgetown's Been Lucky

Posted 3/8/2008 on D.C. Sports Bog

Getty photo. Today's Georgetown-Louisville game was great stuff, and you'd have to figure there's a high chance these teams play again next week in New York. Which is why Pitino continuing to go out of his way to get himself posted on some sort of locker room bulletin board seemed odd, if nothing else. Here's what he said when asked today how Georgetown keeps winning these last-possession ...

Bruce Almighty

Posted 3/8/2008 on Ted's Take - The blogging site of Ted Leonsis

Here is a great article about our coach and his new system.   Today we play at 1:00 pm in Boston and the Georgetown Hoyas play at noon at Verizon Center. I plan to go to the Georgetown game with my laptop to watch the Caps game while I am at the basketball game. I will watch via Slingbox and multitask! Go Caps!

Michigan State at Illinois Highlights

Posted 3/7/2008 on The World of Isaac

Recap Box Score Thoughts Illinois is a bad basketball team. I'll go as far to say I have no idea how they have won games this year. They have little to no offense outside of Pruitt, and even then, he's really not all that good. They can't seem to hit a free throw which really killed them last night when they got into the bonus early and missed some freebies. From the MSU side of things, ...