My Take On Rick Pitino

This is my second semi-basketball related post in a row, which has to be a record.
Anyway, I had planned on letting this slide but then Louisville head basketball coach Rick Pitino had to go off on a rant against the media.
If you don’t know the story by now, you can read about it and watch [...]

Congratulations to the North Carolina Tar Heels

Well, I’m happy for the Tar Heels, I guess.  They won one of the most boring basketball games I’ve ever had the privilege of not paying attention to.  In all seriousness, love him or hate him, Tyler Hansbrough had one of the best college careers in history, so I’m happy for him.

Weller’s Final Four Prediction

Here’s my predictions for this weekend’s games. I am proud to say that I started out way back in October with UConn over UNC in the National Championship. I stand by that now.
Today’s Games (4/04):
Connecticut over Michigan State
North Caronlina over Villanova
Monday’s National Championship (4/06):
Connecticut over North Carolina

Weller’s Elite Eight Predictions

I’m exhausted from playing schleuderball in the sleet/rain/hail/snow today so this is going to be short and sweet. I’m going to put up one-sentence reasoning for my picks in hopes of getting this posted before the first game tips off.

Gillespie out, Donovan in?

Billy Gillespie was fired by the University of Kentucky today.  This website says that Billy Donovan is already the Wildcats’ next head coach.  Much more on this still to come, I’m sure.
I’m not sure why Donovan would do this.  He’s got a pretty good thing going already, this could only be seen as a lateral [...]

Sweet 16 Day 2

Last night I put up my picks for Day 1 of the Sweet 16.  I got 3 of the 4, missing only my alma mater, Mizzou.  I’ll call it a good day.  Also, it’s time to talk about Villanova as a contender for this tournament.  They’ll get a Pittsburgh team who hasn’t impressed me thus [...]

Sweet 16 Picks – Day 1

Weller gave his picks for the first two rounds, so now it’s my turn for the Sweet 16.
UConn over Purdue.  I love Purdue, they’re a fun team to watch, but no one is playing better than UConn right now.
Memphis over Mizzou.  If Mizzou can force Tyreke Evans to make bad decisions, they can win this [...]

Weller’s Picks for Day 4 of the NCAA Tournament

Check out day 3, day 2 and day 1. Here’s day 4:

Weller’s Picks for Day 3 of the NCAA Tournament

With the final games of day 2 having finished up with a pair of thrilling overtime games, I am now putting up my picks for day 3. I was doing really well after the first day with only three wrong picks, and I didn’t have any of the teams that I had picked incorrectly moving [...]

Weller’s Picks for Day 2 of the NCAA Tournament

Now that day 1 has come to a close with a Western Kentucky victory over Illinois, I thought I would go ahead and put up my picks for day 2. I’m 13 of 16 so far, or 14 of 17 if you include the play-in game. I’m happy with that and hope I can keep [...]