FOUR TEAMS THAT ARE COMPLETELY AWESOME BUT WILL NOT WIN ANYTHING
Sure, be a dick and focus on the good teams with possibilities. We like the teams we know are horrendously flawed and not really capable of winning anything but the flukiest of NCAA tournaments. Like Tina Fey and her mysterious scar, they are flawed beauties we’ll take, because the prettiest ones are a.) already overbooked, and b.) not answering our phone calls.
USC. The idiot savant squad who while brilliant will play the idiot part of the role in losses like their early season flukebomb they lost to Mercer. They also do the hyper-brilliant part of the equation, too:
Dramatic rap synth strings aside, he’s bad, and is Davon Jefferson. If the two stayed around for another year, USC would be an easy pick for preseason top 10 material next year. Since they will both pass up relatively unpaid labor for the piles of cash in the NBA, you’ll have to make do with the boom or bust dynamic of the USC team this year.
Mississippi State. They’re fun the same way watching a car wreck is: mangling defense stopping all forward momentum, causing everything to come to a screeching halt. They allow around 60 points a game, so if you’re pitting teams against each other in fantasy matchups and love low point totals, you’re already matching Wisconsin against them in your head.
Syracuse. Five starters averaging double digits in scoring, two freshman and two sophomores in the starting lineup, and Boeheim zone defense madness. Pure funsies just to watch for the potential.
Florida. Ditto for Florida, especially point guard Nick Calathes, who’s averaging 15.3 points a game and passing like Jason Williams would if Jason Williams were accurate and not baked off his ass on five pounds of primo chiba.


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Jefferson will stick around another year. Not a chance for OJ, though.
Comment by The Humanitarian — January 23, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
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Going to be fun watching Arkansas try to play the rest of their season with good talented players at every position except for Point Guard. If they had a decent one, they would be contenders.
Comment by Kerwin4two — January 23, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
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That’s 3 Freshmen and 2 Sophomores in the Cuse’s starting lineup. Yes, they are maddening and fun to watch. Next year, if no one leaves early for the NBA, they will be dangerous with the return of Devo and Rautins and another good recruiting class. Right now, they are too inexperience and too shallow, they only go 6.5 players deep, to be much of a factor. Somehow, making the NCAA Tournament would be an accomplishment.
Comment by UkraineNotWeak — January 24, 2008 @ 8:24 am
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Jefferson is a 24 year old freshman, so I wouldnt be so certain that’s he’ll back. Guy is easily a first rounder
Comment by The Ghost of Tyus Edney — January 24, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
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A post every week or two, how do you guys manage under the pressure? Personally, I’d crack.
Comment by Wow — February 3, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
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Purdue: Robbie Hammel be up on that Kryptonite Brian Cardinal and Carl Landry crossbred with real, genuine Gene Keady comb over hairs as of late, en route to leading the team in Dean Oliver’s Offensive Rating, Effective Field Goal %, Rebounding, and upset-necessary-corn bred-gumption leading Boiler Up Nation to their second Top 10 upset in 4 days.
And certainly in lieu of Blly Gllspe (”there’s no I in Billy Gillespie”)’s tour-de-force coaching clinic he just received in Nashville, it’s clearly about time someone close to him (who’s Daniel Plainview like vocational infatuation may leave BBQ dinner companion Erin Andrews as his only “friend”; and come on, we’re all sure sure she’s game) get a Rick Pitino soundboard together and pull one of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGf87FDN9L0) on he who’s without I’s.
Comment by WorstFan — February 13, 2008 @ 12:03 am
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it’s been three weeks since you guys updated this blog. i’m guessing the KSK/Sporting News/EDSBS/etc. responsibilities killed it.
Comment by this blog is dead — February 14, 2008 @ 10:12 am
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College basketball is sacred. It deserves more than one post per month. Either give college basketball the proper attention it deserves or shut this thing down.
Comment by B-dog — February 18, 2008 @ 9:02 am