Before we can move onto the games happening this week, it’s worthwhile to recap the action that happened over the weekend. No formal weekend digest format to this … just thoughts as they occur:

ACC: Clemson is the definition of a conference middle child - for many a year, they were the weak runt of conference basketball, unable to get over the hump against Big Brother, mocked and beaten up by their only-slightly-bigger-but-with-massive-chips-on-their-shoulders cousins. (Clemson has only made it to the Sweet Sixteen three times; every other “original 8″ ACC team has at least seven. Even Virginia.) And ever since FSU, daU, VPI, and BC joined the conference - well, no one seems to give poor ol’ Clemson any mind anymore. So (with no bias whatsoever) we cheered heartily for them against Carolina … and once again, Clemson came up short. One of these days, boys … one of these days. They got a #5 seed anyway, which feels right - the team is fast and solid, and may notch #4 into the school’s sacred scrolls.

Big East: Familiarity may breed contempt, but even taking that into consideration, we don’t know any Georgetown fans that expected the Hoyas to win against Pitt on Saturday night. Pitt is a dangerously good team, and Georgetown is a dangerously flawed team. Goddammit.

Big Ten: Don’t care. No, seriously. Don’t care. Wisconsin is the most boring “good” basketball team we’ve ever watched.

Big XII: See Big East. (Except the basketball is OK - its just that the results didn’t matter for anything, including seeding.)

Pac-10: In all seriousness, it was good to see the three good teams in the conference (UCLA, USC, and Stanford) play up to potential for a few days straight. (We don’t care what the committee says - Wazzu has no real talent, ‘Zona has talent but no teamwork, and U of O … has hippies?)

SEC: In journalism school, this would be called “burying the lead” - needless to say, this was the most interesting tournament of the weekend, what with tornadoes and upsets and the OIN-BE-LAVIN.

We loved the upstart Bulldogs winning the tournament. We love them doing it by winning three games in two days after the Georgia Dome got attacked by Tulsa. We really loved that they won it on the home floor of their in-state (if out-of-conference) rival. But we cannot STAND that they didn’t take a bid from one of the other middlin’ teams in the SEC. No one can convince us that UK shouldn’t have lost their bid to UGA.