This Week in Sports 2010: Week 4
This week was mainly about College Basketball upsets, NBA matchups, and of course the Pro Bowl. In this NFL Playoff-less week, College Basketball got the spotlight with the number 1 team in the land losing their first game ranked first, Texas dropping their 3rd game of the season, and number 12 (10 ESPN) BYU losing to my ranked 23rd UNM Lobos.
The NCAA finally got the spotlight back this week from the NFL, since this is the "filler" week before the Big Game. Number 1 Kentucky got a call from Barack Obama telling them to hold on to their number 1 spot and he looks forward to watching them. I would like to thank Mr Obama for jinxing them (I am kidding of course). The Cats dropped their first game on top to South Carolina 62-68. Devan Downey dropped 30 points, though he was only 9-29 from the field. DeMarcus Cousins dropped 27, but that was not enough. John Wall also added 19. Texas dropped their 3rd of their last 4 games this week, losing to the Baylor Bears on overtime 77-80. Tweety Carter had 27 for Baylor. Texas has hit a wall, lets see if they can get through. New Mexico is back. My Lobos are on a 6 game win streak after losing their first 2 conference games. The Lobos knocked off number 10 BYU at the Pit on Wednesday and beat TCU in Fort Worth on Saturday. UNM is a half game behind BYU for the lead in the Mountain West Conference, which is better than the Pac 10 right now, and just barely behind the Big 10. Barack Obama also called part of the Georgetown-Duke game. At least he didn't jinx Georgetown.
The Pro Bowl is before the Super Bowl for the first time and is in Miami instead of Hawaii. I personally like the Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl because you have football to watch in the week before the Big One. There are however no one from the Saints or the Colts participating obviously, they have more important things to prepare for.
Lakers took on the Celtics on Sunday, and boy was it a classic Laker-Celtic game. The Lakeshow came back from down 11 in the 4th to take the W in Boston by 1, 90-89. The Lakers had a balanced scoring attack led by Kobe and Andrew Bynum with 19 a piece. Boston was led by Rajon Rondo who had 21 points and 12 assists. On another note, Andre Miller (remember him?) dropped 52 points Saturday in the Blazers win over the Mavs in OT.
In this pre-Super Bowl week, we saw upsets, career highs, the Pro Bowl, and WINTER X GAMES! See you all next week, where it will be the Big Game as our main focus. Have a good one.
Rohan Reddy
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Keep up the great work, Rohan! We appreciate this weekly column.