Warning: This was posted before Sunday’s conference finals.
Let the madness commence.
Oh yeah, it already has.
But first, a didactic riff on my annual admonition.
I had the opportunity the other day to advise a friend of Seedy K’s College Hoops Post Season Rule #1.
At our regular weekly lunch on Wednesday, Mike mentioned how he’d already set his DVR to record Kentucky vs. Tennessee in the SEC title game.
At which instant, after a spit take, it was time to set him straight.
Understand this fellow knows his basketball. He played in HS, and claims to have gotten the best of Wes Unseld, once anyway, which he shares with sort of a wink. He was a senior. Wes was still learning how to play early in his first varsity year.
What gives a scintilla of credence, if that, to my pal’s claim is he owns that a couple of months later Unseld turned him over under sideways down.
My guy also played collegiately, albeit in the Ivy League.
But I digress. (As those of my ilk are inclined to do these days as we anxiously await the announcement that Coach X will be coaching the now coachless University of YouKnowWhomI’mTalkingAbout next season.) Continue reading Hoopaholic’s Gazette: Selection Sunday