First games of the day are finished, and while not as thrilling as yesterday, it still gave us the first 5-12 upset of the tournament. Cornell, repping the Ivy (a league that hasn't won an ncaa game since 1998), dominated 5-seed Temple with a balanced inside-outside game and some classic senior leadership. When you shoot over 56% from the floor, 40% from 3, and almost 79% from the line, you have to like your chances. I didn't realize Ryan Wittman's dad was the NBA's Timberwolves coach...that's a pretty good pedigree. This team looks great--their upcoming matchup with Wisconsin should be a fun one to watch.
Now we've got Pitt coming up, as well as a Sienna and Purdue game that's already pretty interesting. Sienna has had success in each of the last two tournaments, including last year's OT win against OSU, prompting this reaction as captured on last year's blog. We'll see if they can become tourney darlings for the third year in a row. Hopefully Pitt takes care of business and doesn't play to the level of their competition, as usual.
Go Pitt!
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Big Ran Wittman was a top candidate for the IU job that Crean ended up taking. Not sure what is the worst job right now. Probably Minny, Bloomington is still a pretty sweet college town.
ReplyDeleteRose bet, and won back, his life on the Boilermakers.