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NCAA Tournament Tidbits

Thursday, March 18th, 2004

My Final Four: Kentucky, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Connecticut. Guaranteed only to be wrong.

Sadly, my home state could only muster one team this year — 15th seeded Valparaiso. First time I can remember that Indiana produced less than three tournament teams. A few years ago we had seven, tying California for the record.

Also, Illiniois head coach Bruce Weber once took me to the orthodontist. I was at Purdue’s summer basketball camp, back when Weber was an assistant to Purdue coach Gene Keady. One of my brackets popped loose, and Weber drove me to the local ortho to get it repaired.

You won’t hear that from Billy Packer this weekend.

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10 Responses to “NCAA Tournament Tidbits”

  1. #1 |  Chris |  March 18th, 2004 at 1:37 pm

    I hope there is a statue of limitations on recruting violations :) Purdue can’t raelly afford to lose a scholarship over a trip to the dentist!

    At least I can root for for the Purdue women this year. They are a legitimate Final 4 contender. I didn’t think I’d live to see an NCAA tourney that didn’t include Purdue or IU.

  2. #2 |  Mike Hill |  March 18th, 2004 at 4:03 pm

    Wisconsin? You’ve been eating some bad cheese.

  3. #3 |  UW alum |  March 18th, 2004 at 5:51 pm

    Go Badgers!

  4. #4 |  Aaron Bolner |  March 18th, 2004 at 11:53 pm

    “You won’t hear that from Billy Packer this weekend.”

    No, but Packer might need his teeth adjusted if he makes St. Joe’s coach any more mad…

  5. #5 |  Rich Casebolt |  March 19th, 2004 at 2:00 am

    As someone whose father was raised in the Appalachian hills of Knott County, Kentucky — where no barn was ever left standing without a hoop on its side, and where flat land was too valuable to dedicate to the game of football — I can only say …

    … GO KENTUCKY!

  6. #6 |  DougB |  March 22nd, 2004 at 9:53 am

    As a UAB grad, I can only say…

    Ahhhhahahahahahahahahahahahah!

  7. #7 |  c |  March 22nd, 2004 at 4:14 pm

    3 down, 1 to go.

  8. #8 |  Rich Casebolt |  March 22nd, 2004 at 10:20 pm

    ‘Tis a dark day in Knott County …

    … congratulations, and enjoy it as long as it lasts, DougB.

  9. #9 |  DougB |  March 23rd, 2004 at 9:45 am

    I’d give anything for it to last to the weekend. My boss is a Kansas grad…

  10. #10 |  Rich Casebolt |  March 23rd, 2004 at 12:59 pm

    DougB — I can definitely relate to your yearning to “show your boss up”.

    The music minister at our church (a hard-core Oklahoma Sooners’ fan) said that he would wear an Oklahoma State shirt to church if OSU won the championship. (Our childrens’ director is an OSU grad; they needle each other on a regular basis about their loyalties.)

    This, for him, is equivalent to Osama bin Laden eating pulled-pork BBQ.