TicketsNick Van Exel among those being inducted into the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame tonight. I've touched on the Nicky Van topic earlier here, so I won't regurgitate it but I plan on heading out there and will have more for you from him in tomorrow's blog.
Can't think of a much better exercise than rehashing the 1992-93 Final Four season. Should be a fun night.
Let's eat...
--- The latest on the UC-UK front that I have been talking about here the last few weeks. Mick Cronin spoke to Bill Koch about the possibility of getting matched up in the Big East/SEC Challenge. No new news on that front. There's speculation it could happen with UK a road team and UC a home team.
ESPN decides the matchups, so as Mick puts it to Bill, "there's 12 teams in the event so there's six home teams, we're one of six so there's a 17 percent chance it's going to happen."
Technically, with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M to the SEC, there will be 14 teams in the event and seven home teams. So, there's actually a 14.3 percent chance for those scoring at home.
The larger point being this should be more about logic and less about percentages, but when the WWL gets its hands, personal relationships and interests involved, you never know what's going to happen.
"Last year we lobbied for Kentucky but ESPN picks the matchups," Cronin said to Koch. "Now there's speculation that Kentucky will be sent here because they're a road team and we're a home team. You'd think it would be logical because we're close by. But ESPN makes that decision."
If you want to look at the break down of possible Big East home teams that could steal UK away, you can look back here to my Breakfast from April 24.
--- Elsewhere on the basketball schedule front, we have more from the IU hunt. The reports which surfaced yesterday about Indiana and Louisville attempting to workout a deal for the home-and-home vacated by Kentucky have been tabled until next year, according to ESPN.
Does that open up the possibility for UC to swing in next year against the projected No. 1 team in the country? Probably not. Looks like IU is going with a buy game at home to fill the spot, according to Rick Pitino and the Louisville Courier-Journal.
--- Good news for P/K Jake Rogers. Despite being cut by Tampa Bay earlier this week, he was picked up by the Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday. Apparently Pittsburgh also put a claim in on the former UC kicker.
Dallas will be a good spot for Rogers. He'll have a great opportunity to be the everyday kicker. Consider that last year's starter Matt McBriar ranked 29th in the NFL in net punting average (min. 40 punts). He ranked 26th in average total distance (43.8).
Best of luck to Jake in Dallas.
--- Randomness...
--- So sad about Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch last weekend. Here was a never-before-seen performance from Chappelle's Show.
--- I've heard nothing but great things about The Avengers. Even the end-title sequence exudes awesome.
--- Lady Gaga did something deemed crazy. Yawn. Go away.
--- Today is Cheap Trick bassist Tom Petersson's birthday. I'll take Surrender any day.
Can't think of a much better exercise than rehashing the 1992-93 Final Four season. Should be a fun night.
Let's eat...
--- The latest on the UC-UK front that I have been talking about here the last few weeks. Mick Cronin spoke to Bill Koch about the possibility of getting matched up in the Big East/SEC Challenge. No new news on that front. There's speculation it could happen with UK a road team and UC a home team.
ESPN decides the matchups, so as Mick puts it to Bill, "there's 12 teams in the event so there's six home teams, we're one of six so there's a 17 percent chance it's going to happen."
Technically, with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M to the SEC, there will be 14 teams in the event and seven home teams. So, there's actually a 14.3 percent chance for those scoring at home.
The larger point being this should be more about logic and less about percentages, but when the WWL gets its hands, personal relationships and interests involved, you never know what's going to happen.
"Last year we lobbied for Kentucky but ESPN picks the matchups," Cronin said to Koch. "Now there's speculation that Kentucky will be sent here because they're a road team and we're a home team. You'd think it would be logical because we're close by. But ESPN makes that decision."
If you want to look at the break down of possible Big East home teams that could steal UK away, you can look back here to my Breakfast from April 24.
--- Elsewhere on the basketball schedule front, we have more from the IU hunt. The reports which surfaced yesterday about Indiana and Louisville attempting to workout a deal for the home-and-home vacated by Kentucky have been tabled until next year, according to ESPN.
Does that open up the possibility for UC to swing in next year against the projected No. 1 team in the country? Probably not. Looks like IU is going with a buy game at home to fill the spot, according to Rick Pitino and the Louisville Courier-Journal.
--- Good news for P/K Jake Rogers. Despite being cut by Tampa Bay earlier this week, he was picked up by the Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday. Apparently Pittsburgh also put a claim in on the former UC kicker.
Dallas will be a good spot for Rogers. He'll have a great opportunity to be the everyday kicker. Consider that last year's starter Matt McBriar ranked 29th in the NFL in net punting average (min. 40 punts). He ranked 26th in average total distance (43.8).
Best of luck to Jake in Dallas.
--- Randomness...
--- So sad about Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch last weekend. Here was a never-before-seen performance from Chappelle's Show.
--- I've heard nothing but great things about The Avengers. Even the end-title sequence exudes awesome.
--- Lady Gaga did something deemed crazy. Yawn. Go away.
--- Today is Cheap Trick bassist Tom Petersson's birthday. I'll take Surrender any day.