Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Viagra for Vitale.

When Duke and UNC get together to battle, especially when the game is at Cameron Indoor Stadium, get your mute button ready for Dickie V's ADD. Sadly, I will be working during the telecast (also denying myself more gawking at Erin Andrews; I'm still getting site referrals from Mr. Irrelevant on my ombudsman letter nearly a month later) .

Despite the flashes of brillance from Josh McRoberts, Coach K is dealing with an underperforming team against Roy Williams' deep squad -- this guy gets college players to bust their balls and play well like Jim Calhoun used to do in Connecticut (boy, there's a team headed for the NIT this year, if appearances and won-loss are any indication). The Tar Heels are that type of squad -- arms-laden, but while they'll probably get a one-seed in the tournament if you look at it now, the loss to NC State makes me wonder whether they might cough it up in the Sweet 16 when they ought to be a lock for the Final Four. But that's down the road, and Hansborough and Terry will rock Duke inside tonight. Expect UNC to run with this one tonight, but since it is the regular season in college basketball and the ACC seems to make a habit of lesser teams knocking off better ones (granted, most of those lesser teams hit up Duke), anything's possible.

2 comments:

twins15 said...

The Dookies kept this one closer than I thought they would... the more I watch UNC, the more I think they just won't show up to play and get upset early in the Tourney. They were mediocre for the first 30 minutes out there.

Signal to Noise said...

UNC may be just like UConn was last year -- talent out the ass, but lollygaggers at times.