THINGS FALL APART
Chinua Achebe tried to warn us but we were too busy being tasered to notice.
It should come as no secret that I’m a huge fan of Pitt hoops and their spritely spark plug, Levance Fields. So I was obviously devastated to return to the computer after a week off to find that my beloved point guard broke a metatarsal (latin for “ass-kicking bone”) and will miss at least two months..
Fields survived an off-season plagued by a handsy cop with an itchy taser finger know he’s on the shelf because of a fucking toe. It marked the second consecutive game in which Pitt lost one of their starters for an extended (read: all fucking season) period. The team has lost another leader and taken a serious hit to their overall depth. Sharp-shooting Ronald Ramon takes over at point while future-stud Gilbert Brown is filling in on the wing.
In the past two games the Panthers are 1-1 with a huge overtime upset over Duke and a crushing defeat at the hands of the indomitable Flyers of Dayton. Sweeping Georgetown might not be quite as realistic a concept as it was last week.
I’m sure other stuff has happened in the world of college basketball, and as soon as my hangover subsides I’ll be sure to look into it.
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Look on the bright side, we only have to beat G-Town once to sweep them.
Comment by Hatey — January 2, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
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Beating Duke wasn’t an upset; Duke will struggle all year to beat any halfway decent team with any interior presence whatsoever.
Sad to see Pitt’s problems; although Pitt didn’t scare me that much because of the team’s poor offensive decision making, Blair will give Hibbert fits and a healthy Pitt team would have provided quite the battle. The Big East will be pretty terrible this year, unfortunately.
Looks like the Hoyas’ biggest competition this year will be Marquette, which has the distinction of being a guard oriented team that can not shoot.
I am hoping Louisville gets healthy (both physically and mentally), so the Hoyas get some quality competition prior to the NCAAs. With the Memphis shitshow, I can not see us getting a 1 seed unless we run the table in the BEast.
Comment by Bmghoya — January 2, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
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Hatey, there will be another meeting at MSG.
Comment by Unsilent Majority — January 3, 2008 @ 8:57 am