Unwatchable Zags

La Rev on last night's Gonzaga-San Diego game:

I think it's safe to say that the Virginia game last season was probably the only time the Mark Few Zags have ever been as completely unwatchable as they were last night. They were pathetic, and I don't care to ever talk about it again.

Gonzaga has had an unfortunate habit of not bringing its "A" game to the WCC tourney in recent years. They've barely skated by several times, but last night, it finally caught up with them. Hopefully they find their "A" game sometime between now and next Thursday/Friday.

La Rev also predicts St. Mary's will be snubbed by the selection committee. "Nothing the Committee has ever done dictates that they'll let three WCC teams in," he says. "Every year there's got to be a snub that all the media-types get all huffy-puffy about for the TV audience, and this year, I think it's going to be Saint Mary's."

Lunardi has St. Mary's as a #9 seed, safely away from the bubble. So if they aren't picked, it will indeed be quite a kerfuffle -- particularly since the only plausible explanation for such a snub would be the three-WCC-bids thing, which would blatantly contradict what the committee always says about how it "doesn't look at conferences."

Comments

[I R A Darth Aggie]

Ack! I just looked at Lunardi's rankings, and he's got the Zags vs. the Ags.

Unless we bring our Texas Tech game, we're so dead.

[Basketball Training Aids]

So what does this all mean? I think we really did accomplish our goals. We asked kids on Thursday what they would improve, and what we heard more than anything else (other than "Feed us!") was that the institute was too short. They would have rather had longer days or more of them. If that's the worst complaint they can come up with, I think we're doing pretty well. But it's also important to remember that, while this was a ton of planning and work, on some level, it's still easier than September will be. ...