March Basketball: Would ND, IU and Purdue please sit down...

News of Note:

-IU loses to Minn in a buzzer beater. I was kinda watching it on the computer, heading to the game center over the second half every now and then to catch an update. Then it got down to the last minute and then the last half minute and then suddenly White's put back ties it and I say to myself I had better see what's going on on the radio. Catch D.J. White making the free throw to put the Hoosiers up by one - bedlam! And then the announcers being very careful not to count it as a win yet - remembering Nick Anderson (I don't...). Then the gol durn Golphers throw the gol durn ball in bounds and some gol durn guy catches it and throws up a gol durn shot that... gol durn it, goes in. You can imagine how the radio announcers sounded. What a bummer. Imagine Marty and Eric and a host of other guys from around here just feeling real lousy about then. Guess it was a gol durn good game though, especially for IU in that last crazy minute that saw White leap tall buildings and deflect speeding bullets. That is untill...

-Purdue lost as well. Think that the IU and Purdue coaches are probably pretty happy about now if they're thinking like Coach Brey up at ND, happy about not having to face any more conference foes for the rest of this week and next week as well (Eric told me that yes the NCAA makes the effort not to pair conference foes the first week of the Big Dance). Maybe Coach Brey will get a Big Ten team and Dakich will get a Big East team. The Boilermakers? Butler?

March Madness has begun.