Big East Basketball Heading To Rocky Mount

The Big East Athletic Directors held their monthly meeting on Wednesday and part of the days calendar of events was making out the basketball schedule for next year.  Next year Rocky Mount High will host the 2014 Big East basketball Tournament which will start on Monday  February 17th and conclude on that following Friday night.

Tonight Rocky Mount now with two conference losses will host Southern Nash who will come into the game 0-3 in Big East play.  No one at this point is mathematically out but three losses this early puts any team in jeopardy that the season is headed into the wrong direction.  Rocky Mount with two wins to go with those two losses only has one more home game after Thursday but will be faced with four conference road games.  They surely can not afford another loss this early with mostly road games rest of the way.

The best laid plans of mice and men.  It wasn't all that long ago I was spouting about how good the Carolina Hurricanes were doing this year and a deep run in the playoffs looked imminent.  A season ending knee injury to goalie Cam Ward and the Canes simply can not keep the other team from scoring.

Any team at any time has to have several things go their way in order to live up to any teams expectations.  First of all the healthiest always have a better chance to win than a team that is deep into their bench just to put enough bodies on the floor to play. Luck,  That puck or ball needs to bounce your way every now and then in order to you to continue.  It always helps that every player understands his roll and what he has to do to make the team work the best.  When they understand that to win doesn't always mean that they have to take the shot to win the game and become team players it makes the entire unit stronger.

During the flow of any event the coach has to pull the trigger at the right time to put another player in or in some cases decide which is the best way to proceed.   When all of these factors go your way there is a great chance to win.  When one or more fail any teams chances of winning a playoff goes down quickly.  The Carolina Hurricanes case they have become a 100 pile car crash in fog and cars keep piling into the crash.