I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game....

...in my book, we're gonna be winners!

A little something to help you get hyped for the big Championship tonight:



Well, our fallen solider had to have a double-root canal last night, followed by oral surgery today, and needless to say he's out for tonight's Championship. We'll be wearing black armbands in remembrance of the price he paid to lead us to the promised land.

Heater brought up a great discussion about players being subbed in to shoot free throws for "injured" players, followed by the injured player making a miraculous recovery and immediately re-entering the game (they must use soccer's version of the magic spray). It's happened at several crucial moments this tournament. Before I re-post Heater's comment here, I'll say that in both cases, the "injured" player was replaced by mediocre free-throw shooters who were coming off the bench cold. Granted, in both cases they were still better than the alternative, and it should be noted that they both nailed the shots. It's a bush-league move (oh really, Calhoun did it? Shocking), but until now I always thought the unwritten rule took care of the practice. Guess not. Here's Heater's comment--feel free to chime in with your thoughts.

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Can we talk about the worst rule in college hoops? That an injured player can be subbed out to not take free throws and then come right back in? Something needs to happen here, the Missouri player wanted nothing to do with those last second free throws, but then he is at the scorers table waiting to come in right afterwards? Also Dirty coach Calhoun did this against the irish as well when they fouled Thabeet (goes boom, boom boom) down one with 50 seconds to play. Austrie gets to come in and drain two free throws and ten seconds later guess who is in to play defense. Not sure what the rule needs to be, maybe if you go out due to injury you have to at least sit out a minute of game time or something like that. Thoughts???