NCAA Chops On The Cuse, Boeheim

HUNT LOSES REGIONAL FINAL  65-52


No wonder Syracuse decided to miss the ACC Tournament this year in Greensboro.  Of course Jim Boeheim the Syracuse coach wants no part of Greensboro when he compares it with Madison Square Garden.  The NCAA gave us the answer they have known since October.  Friday the NCAA slammed Syracuse and if I am a Carolina fan I might want to gulp after the penalties handed down.

Jim Boeheim has to surrender 108 wins which drops him from the door step of 1000 wins down to sixth on the all time list.  He must sit out the first half nine games of the ACC conference season next year.  Syracuse must return all monies won in playoffs in 2011-12-13.  Lose twelve scholarships to boot.

Those  of you who might think that the NCAA took many of Joe Paterno's wins away at Penn State but has since reneged and given them back to him there is one major difference.  Paterno's failures had nothing to do with wins and losses on the football field.  Boeheim has run a program that let in players who weren't eligible gave them extra benefits for winning games.  Paterno never did any of that he just covered up a coach sex offender which had nothing to do with wins and losses as long as you don't consider the coach in question may have help coach many of those wins if he had of been in jail where he belonged Penn state just might lost a few of them.

Today is the last day of the ACC basketball season.  Several seeding's for next week's ACC tournament are still undecided.  I have tickets for Wednesday games and of course State for sure is playing Wednesday either at 7pm or 9:30 depending on today's outcome on all games.  Carolina still has an outside shot  at the double day bye if they beat Duke tonight. 

Who are you picking tonight in the battle of the blue part II.  Here is my feeling.  Duke made 10/20 threes in Durham and it took overtime to beat Carolina.  Carolina wins tonight.

Saturday is the last game of the season for Syracuse.  I bet they play their butts off for Boeheim.  The question is what is State going to play like.  If they win and play at 9:30 Wednesday I'll be there in Greensboro until midnight planning on working Thursday.  They lose they play at 7:00 Wednesday.  I have a catch 22 with this game.

Can the University of Virginia keep winning with mirrors with at least two starters still missing.  Louisville needs this one and I think they take UVA.  Wake plays at BC.  That could be  a barn burner of a game.

I don't know how the seeding's will play out after today but I hope Wake wins Tuesday and Carolina also has a Wednesday game along with State.  At least three of the Big Four could be there while I'm there.

Hunt High tries to win their second straight Eastern Basketball regional today when they play Terry Sanford.  If they do the Big East will send it's fourth team in six years to the state championship basketball game.