All-Ugly teams are always fun. It’s just a fact. There’s something about pointing out the particularly gruesome among a group of millionaire athletes. This list is particularly funny. BTW, if there is an ACC All-Ugly team (and by God, I’m gonna make one some day), Johnny Rhodes has to be the captain.

Barry Jacobs has a great table up at the DBR listing Duke and Carolina’s Final Four appearances. It really is remarkable to see it displayed like that. In the past 20 years, or since the tournament expanded to 64 teams, there have been only four years that neither team made the Final Four. The longest…

With three area teams playing on the same day in the NCAA Tournament, it’s a bit pointless to try to point out links where you can read about the game. It’s kind of like pointing out a fat person at Ryans – they’re everywhere so why single any out? Instead of surfing all over for…

Sorry for the NBA post on a day when all three Triangle ACC teams play in the Sweet Sixteen, but this is too good to pass on. NBA scrub Paul Shirley (never heard of him) has a little blog over on NBA.com. Now, not too many NBA players would be capable of writing a grammatically…

Ken Pomeroy gives a nice, stat-laden preview/analysis of tonight’s Louisville-Washington game. I agree with him that this is the best game of the night, but Oklahoma State-Arizona is a damn close second. Yesterday, Ken gave a nice preview of all eight games along with plenty o’ links on the Illinois v. Bruce Pearl story (have…

Maryland obviously had a trying season. Everyone, including themselves, expected much better things than an NIT berth. When a team fails like that, it’s usually because of one of two reasons – either the players were overrated or the team just never meshed. In this case, I’d say it’s mostly the later. A nearly identical…

Well, it’s about time! Finally, the unheralded J.J. Redick is getting some deserved attention. It seemed like this day would never come, but now it has, and the sun seems a little brighter, the flowers a little more colorful and the birds more sonorous. Yes, J.J. Redick at long last has a fan site. Thanks…

I haven’t linked much to the Mid-Majority website (“blog” just doesn’t do it justice), largely because I just don’t have the time to read it. It’s a phenomenal site written by Kyle Whelliston about mid-major (duh) basketball programs. One of the guiding frameworks to the content of his site was Kyle’s quest to attend 100…

Here’s something I did not know. According to the USA Today (and we know they are never wrong), the tradition of cutting down the nets after a big victory began with Everett Case at NC State. Hat tip to Lorenzo Charles (no, I don’t think it’s the real one) of the Sports Shack for the…

J.J. Redick and Chris Paul were each named to the first team AP All-America team. Sean May was selected for the second team and Shelden Williams and Raymond Felton landed on the third team. The selections mean that all five first team All-ACC performers were named as All-Americans. Illinois’ entire three-guard backcourt made the team,…