Archive for March, 2010
Out of the Bay Area college basketball news department come these two items . . . D.J. Seeley’s departure from Cal’s basketball team is not entirely surprising. He was not recruited by Mike Montgomery. He doesn’t fit the style Montgomery is likely to employ now. And his playing time had dropped considerably late in the ...
Mar 30th, 2010
Luck played a major role in Stanford’s 55-53 victory over Xavier on Monday that got the Cardinal into the Final Four. But is good fortune enough to explain the last few seconds of the game? The world never sleeps. Was there something else at work here? Did some supernatural force decide the Cardinal should win ...
Perhaps we at JakesTakeOnSports were mistaken, but we were under the impression the Final Four was going to be held next weekend. Apparently, the schedule has been changed or the information we received was faulty because the newspaper says Duke, Michigan State, West Virginia and Butler will be playing in the national semifinals in Indianapolis ...
What happened to St. Mary’s is like . . . . Well, the thing is . . . uh . . . You see, Baylor . . . Umm . . . If the Gales had only . . . . Sometimes . . . that is to say . . . Columnists and analysts will ...
Here’s our five-star recommendation of the NCAA Tournament game to watch if you can only watch one this weekend: St. Mary’s vs. Baylor, Friday, 4:27 p.m., CBS. Now before you start going on about the intrigue of Ivy champion Cornell challenging fast-and-loose Kentucky or the appeal of Kansas-killer Northern Iowa going against Michigan State without ...
You may have driven past the St. Mary’s College campus without realizing it. Of course, you would have to be in Moraga, California, to do that, and that would require getting desperately lost along the deserted winding road that leads nowhere except deeper into trees and green fields. And St. Mary’s is set well back ...
We at JakesTakeOnSports have proclaimed the Pac-WCC as the conference of the NCAA Tournament. Yeah, yeah, we know, the tournament is only two days old, and an apparent certainty on Friday can be completely erased by Sunday. That’s what makes the NCAA Tournament so interesting. The entire perspective can turn 180 degrees from one round ...
The NCAA Tournament is the time to draw sweeping conclusions based on one day, conveniently forgetting more than four months of activity. So based on Day One of the NCAA Tournament, we can state conclusively that the Big East is terribly overrated, the Pac-10 is a lot better than those ignorant Easterners have suggested, improving ...
Although we at JakesTakeOnSports think of ourselves as a big-picture medium that is national in scope, sometimes we prefer to focus on our little corner of the world. So we turn to the San Jose Regional of the men’s NCAA Tournament and note the Bay Area connections of these far-away teams. – Montana coach Wayne Tinkle ...
Instead of flaunting our expertise by making the obligatory Final Four predictions (My goodness, Galdys, don’t you know Robbie Hummel is out?), we at JakesTakeOnSports prefer to address more esoteric categories of the NCAA Tournament. Here are rankings you can sink your teeth into (or if you despise dangling prepostions – Here are rankings into which you can sink your teeth): ...