Big East Tournament Has About Had It

So we know for sure that there is no school on Tuesday and another day of the basketball ball is sunk.      I doubt there is any school on Wednesday and if that occurs  forget the Tournament for this year.  If and the way this ice looks that is a big if they get into school Wednesday about the only way to save the tournament would be play two sites both days Wednesday and Thursday.  Hold the finals Friday at Fike.  The problem of course who plays where on Thursday to could be a problem.  So the 2015 Big East Tournament is hanging on a finger nail.

NC State's win at Louisville gets the Pack on the inside  of the 68 trying to get in the NCAA tournament.  The Pack needs to keep winning if they are going to stay on the Northside of the in crowd.  Clemson, Pitt, State, Miami all have similar conference records so if any of the four get hot down the stretch they can work themselves in while any team wins one lose one rest of the way will work themselves to NIT or worse.

Duke and Carolina seems safe for the NCAA  but Carolina just two weeks ago was playing like a final  four  team but now like a team with a flat tire.  Anybody noticed Duke hasn't lost since they cut the player loose from the team.

I like Virginia a lot.  They play good defense but here is what I hate about them.  I call it the Dave Odom Disease.  When Odom had Tim Duncan and Randolph Childress at Wake Forest the Deacs should have scored 90 points per game but instead he coached close to the vest in fact I heard him say once is all a coach should ask for is to keep the games close and have a chance to win the game in the end.

That also means you have a chance to lose.  Virginia likes to keep the games in the fifties and sixties which means any good team like Duke will be in the game in the end and as it turned out Duke scored three straight trips down court and won the game at Virginia.   Virginia should be trying to score more points and blow people out.  I truly see Virginia  and Notre Dame as the ACC's hope for final four and Duke as an outside shot.

 I don't really like Kentucky all that much, Louisville can't shoot outside, you had better watch out for Gonzaga.  I have a feeling this NCAA tournament is wide open.