Tuesday, April 08, 2003 :::
My brother wants a rant from me, and perhaps I should give one. As I pointed out, none of the final four this year won its conference tournament, which means we knew a week ago that whatever team was declared the champion for having strung together six wins at the end of the season would have strung together only six wins at the end of the season; it lost its seventh-to-last game. That that loss is so much more important than the end of Kentucky's 26 (?) game winning streak is a bit disproportionate, even if the last several games were against tougher competition than most of Kentucky's string. (That string, though, included home and away against both Georgia and Florida, a home game against Notre Dame, and few genuinely bad teams.)Still, I have to say, those last six games didn't, what I saw of them, look like flukes. Neither, in fact, did Kansas's. That 33 point win the other night wasn't as close as the final score suggests, and most of last night's game looked like two very good teams playing each other. While Syracuse had some clear misfires during the season, and probably didn't quite earn a number one ranking with their championship, I don't think it's unsupportable to say that they really are the best team in the country, especially right now.
::: posted by dWj at 10:15 AM
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