Sweet: if you're Louisville, North Carolina, Pitt, Villanova, Missouri, UConn, Michigan State, Oklahoma
Not So Sweet: Arizona, Kansas, Duke, Gonzaga, Memphis, Purdue, Syracuse, Xavier
Down Right Embarrassed: Arizona
Great Personal Performances: Blake Griffin (shocker)-Oklahoma 30 points, 14 rebounds
Tyreke Evans-Memphis, 33 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists
The Sweet 16 turned into more of a Bittersweet 16. The teams you expected to dominate-did. Arizona, what a joke. This game either showed exactly why Louisville is the number 1 overall rated team OR exactly how fast a lucky team can hit their wall. Arizona is an excellent team, they have 2 future first round picks, but Louisville turned out to be too much. If I'm Clark Kellogg I'm upset with CBS for sending me to Indianapolis to cover this sorry game.
Villanova routs Duke by 23. Duke clearly did not show up in this one. A team that relies so much on their perimeter shooting can not afford to go 5-27 from 3 point land. Hats off to Villanova (who shot equally bad from beyond the arc). Duke had no answer for Villanova big man Dante Cunningham-something Duke doesn't have. Cunningham brought down 11 rebounds. When is coach K going to wake up and go recruit another Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, or Carlos Boozer. Two years in a row now Duke has been bounced from the tournament due to a lack of a big man presence.
The other games were all very good and had some excellent moments.
Elite 8 begins Saturday kicks off with UConn vs. Missouri at 4:40pm
followed by
Pitt vs. Villanova at 7:00pm
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Maybe Coach K should concentrate more on coaching and not on the economy
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