The college basketball season has again been wild, with teams in the TOP 25 rankings changing almost as much as the Duke scoreboard did in their blowout win over Maryland. So far the first few months of the Men's college hoops season, there has only been three number one teams - North Carolina, Pitt, and Wake Forest. The Tar Heels had dominated the first seven weeks of the season, until losing two-straight. For both Pitt and Wake Forest, there time atop the rankings didn't last long as both stumbled at the number one spot. All of this has opened the door for possibly the most dominant team in the land over the last several games - the Duke Blue Devils.
Who is number one in the college basketball land? Well as much as it may pain me to say this and I know what some of you will be thinking... "DUKE?!? Really?!? I can't believe you said that!" Well to be honest, I can't believe I am going to say it either. At the beginning of the season my original thoughts of Duke were wrong. I was NOT at all a believer in the talent and players they had on the team. I actually thought this may be just a mediocre season for Coach K's Blue Devils. However, I am a man and as a man I can admit when I am wrong. In this case, I was extremely wrong. Duke is deservedly the BEST team in the land (right now) and proved that in the game yesterday against the undermanned Terps, winning by 41 points.
Are you tired of the best conference debate? I feel like the only debate that ever talked about now is the debate about... "Which conference is the toughest conference in basketball?" Who cares? Let it go. I am so sick and tired of this. Every time it is brought up, all I want to do is change the channel. Find something more relevant to the games, the players and the teams to debate over. The answer to the questions changes with the weeks of the basketball season, while the debate never changes.
BS of the week. I decided the blog need something with a little more excitement. Something that would bring a little more edge. A new part of Blog Like a Champion will be known as the BS of the week. Highlighting those who are notably stupid or who are lacking in good judgement. And I have found the best example to kick off this new segment.
Saturday evening in Tucson, the Houston Cougars took on the Arizona Wildcats from the McKale Center - the game itself was a high scoring, overtime thriller. But in the second half of the game, Houston's Aubrey Coleman purposefully stepped on the face of Arizona star Chase Budinger. Coleman was charged with a flagrant foul and was then ejected. The Cougars until that point had been in complete control of the game. But for some reason Coleman decided to stomp on Budinger's face. Coleman's brain fart motivated the Wildcats as they were able to come back to win 96-90 in OT. Watch, the BS of the week, for yourself.
Streaking stopped. The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame went in to their home game last night against the third ranked team in the country, the UCONN Huskies, with a 45-game home win streak on the line. The first half was a back and forth shoot out as both teams came out red hot from the outside. However, the second half was mostly UCONN has they took care of business, ending the Irish's home win streak. A streak which lasted almost three seasons.
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