Go Zags! Beat the Gaels!
Huge WCC game tonight as Gonzaga visits Saint Mary's. It's a big-time rivalry game -- in La Rev's words, "HateFest 2008" -- and it has major implications to boot. Who ever would have predicted in the preseason that the Gaels would be ranked (#25 AP, #23 coaches) and the Zags wouldn't? And that both teams would be projected #7 seeds according to Joe Lunardi? Anyway, the game is on ESPN2 at 11:00 PM.
Alas, unless Loyette wakes up screaming and I'm on baby duty, I won't be able to watch -- I need to get some sleep tonight, since I expect to up late tomorrow night, "doing my flips," as my dad says, over Super Tuesday. (To "do one's flips" about something, in Loomer-Loy family lexicon, means to get giddily excited about said thing and obsess over it. You know, like I do about the BCS every year, and politics, and March Madness, and hurricanes, and the Red Sox in the playoffs, and new Harry Potter books/movies, and...)
In other mid-major basketball news, the ESPN BracketBusters pairings have been announced. You might recall that last year, Becky and I went to the marquee BracketBusters game, Butler-Southern Illinois, and had a fantasic time. Both of those teams ended up in the Sweet Sixteen. The year before that, George Mason played Wichita State in BracketBusters, and those teams ended up playing each other in the Sweet Sixteen (with Mason, of course, going on to the Final Four). What will this year's BracketBusters bring? #15 Drake at #10 Butler is this year's biggest game by far (why do the Bulldogs always get to be at home for these things? heh), but I'm looking forward to Davidson @ Winthrop. That should be quite a game.
UPDATE: St. Mary's won, 89-85 in overtime.
La Rev's readers are blaming the refs.
Brendan-
I don't know if you ended up watching the game, but the refs were pathetic, probably the worst I've ever seen from a WCC crew (which is saying something). They completely blew three cut-and-dry calls that cost GU around five points and one fouled out Austin Daye.
But, GU sucked last night. Refs being bad or not, they're better than that...or at least I thought they were.
Posted by: La Rev | Feb 5, 2008 12:27:22 PM
(why do the Bulldogs always get to be at home for these things? heh)
No, the Bulldogs are the road team, playing against the...uh...Bulldogs.
We could have a problem here.
Posted by: JD | Feb 5, 2008 1:48:31 PM
Heh. Good point.
Posted by: Brendan Loy | Feb 5, 2008 2:38:18 PM