Louisville is looking pretty scary

I have to admit, Louisville appears to be molding into the final four caliber team they were supposed to be. If they can play fairly smart basketball for 30 of the 40 game minutes, they should be a tough out. However, they were about this good last year leading up to the tournament. It will be interesting to see if they flake-out again come the NCAA's.

I was somewhat impressed by their performance last night, especially because they were forced to play Syracuse's style (read: Shitty). Each time the Orange was able to pull within two or three, the Cards were able to hit a three or something to stretch the lead. Back in December, they would have lost a low-scoring game like this, mainly because they wouldn't have executed at all in the closing minutes. Instead, after a few cherry-picking dunks by from Mr. Modest, they won by 11.

I may be reading into this too much, because I hate UL and Jerry Smith, but I thought it was garbage that he had two break-away dunks to finish the game. One dunk and subsequent over-celebration from Smith is too much. Normally, this doesn't bother me too much, but when the opposing coach is Jim Boeheim, it's trash. First of all, in a point that was belabored by Bill Rafterty last night, Boeheim was the guy who gave Pitino a job in the seventies. Second of all, they had stopped trying to foul. It's one thing if they were extending the game, but they weren't. I may be mistaken, but Boeheim looked a little put-out during the post-game handshake.

Tommy--www.bluenecks.com is available... There will probably be a decision later today, but I checked both thecatspajamas and catspajamas, and they were both taken.