This Week in Sports 2010: Week 12

How is everyone’s bracket? Busted? This tournament has been one for the ages. Upset after upset, with only a single 1 seed going to Indianapolis for the Final Four. One team in the Final Four was going back to Indy regardless. 

That team is the Butler Bulldogs, whose campus is only 6 miles away from Lucas Oil Stadium, the location of the last 3 games. Butler is one of two 5 seeds in the Final Four. They will be playing Michigan State. Butler’r road to the Indy wasn’t exactly easy. They breezed through UTEP in the first round, and then found themselves beating Murray State by 2 points in a low scoring 54-52 game. They then had a good 4 point win over the number 1 seed Syracuse.

Michigan State is the other 5 seed in the Final Four. Their road was easier than it should have been. They survived a 3 point win in the firs round over New Mexico State, then had a 2 point win over Maryland. They then beat Northern Iowa, who had beaten number 1 Kansas in the second round, by 7 and hung on verses Tennessee by 1 point in the Elite Eight.

West Virginia has looked really good throughout this tournament, even without their starting PG Truck Bryant. They had relatively convincing wins throughout until Kentucky, who they beat by 7. Joe Mazzulla was the reason why they beat the young and energetic 1 seeded Wildcats. He had a career high 17 points in his first start of the season. 

And finally there is Duke. They are the lone 1 seed left, and everyone knows most people at the Final Four will be rooting against the Blue Devils. Nolan Smith has really stepped up his game this tournament with Kyle Singler struggling a bit. Jon Scheyer has playing as an energetic leader as well. But Duke matches up with WVU first round, and I think the Mountaineers might get this one. 

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This Week In Sports 2010: Week 6

In this All-Star Weekend we saw Danica Patrick debut in NASCAR (with a wreck), we saw a triple overtime men's college basketball game, a QUADRUPLE overtime women's college basketball game, and we saw a lot of action in the NBA. Let's start off with Danica.

Danica Patrick, you may know her as the GoDaddy girl, but she in the news a lot this week, and not because of controversial Super Bowl commercials. She made the leap from Indy Car to NASCAR. She had it all planned out to debut at Daytona, many people were picking her to finish top 10 in NASCAR's Super Bowl. Well she ended up crashing in a preliminary. Hopefully she has a better NASCAR season and I am interested to see how she does in the future.

All-Star weekend was this week in the NBA. If people do not know, AS weekend is 3 days of festivities in the NBA including a  H-O-R-S-E game, The Skills Challenge, a celebrity game, a 3-point shootout, Shooting Stars which is  a series of short shots, three point shots, and a half court shot including a WNBA player, a NBA player, and a retired player from a certain city or region, the ever so popular Dunk Contest, and the All Star game itself. Kevin Durant was once again the winner of the HORSE game, Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics won the 3-point shootout, Team Texas (Dirk Nowitzki, Becky Hammon, and Kenny Smith) won the Shooting Stars, Nate Robinson became the first ever 3 time winner of this years rather boring Dunk Contest, and the East ended up winning a very close game, 141-139 in front of a record breaking crowd of 108,713 people at Cowboys Stadium. Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat was the MVP. In other NBA news, Caron Butler and Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson were traded from the Washington Wizards to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, Quinten Ross, and James Singleton. The Mavs  definitely got the better deal in that in my opinion.

In College Basketball this week, we had the 2 longest games played all season long. Utah and TCU women kept the UNM Lobo Men's game off television to my anger because their game went into quadruple overtime. 4 overtimes!!! That is the equivalent of another half. TCU held on to the 105-96 victory despite 45 points and 11 rebounds by Utah's Kaley Whipple. I was pleased that night though because my Lobos beat UNLV in Las Vegas, though i could not watch the whole first half due to the quadruple OT. Pittsburg and West Virginia went into triple overtime yesterday in a huge showdown in Pittsburg, where the number 23 Panthers took down the no 4 Mountaineers by a score of 98-95. In a side note, my Lobos beat number 25 UNLV at UNLV and beat Utah in Salt Lake in overtime as well. The Lobos are now ranked number 12 in the nation. GO UNM!

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