Villanova beat Georgetown in D.C. last night. Dana Pennett O'Neil of the Daily News says that as Scottie Reynolds goes, "so go the Wildcats," and the freshman point guard went quite well in front of a bunch of his high school friends from nearby Herndon, Va. The Inquirer's Shannon Ryan says that Villanova did the hard work despite the hard hats that were passed out to the Georgetown student section. Ken Pomeroy writes for ESPN.com (Insider subscription required) that the 'Cats overcame one of the nation's most underrated shot-blockers, Hoyas center Roy Hibbert. The best? UConn's Hasheem Thabeet.
Drexel won its 10th straight, though the Daily News correspondent notes it "doesn't take much to beat James Madison."
Ray Parillo was at the BCS national championship game for the Inquirer and details a night of trouble in paradise. Mike Kern was there for the Daily News and wonders whether Ohio State coach Jim Tressel should have voted for Michigan after all. He also reports that there are "better jobs out there" than that held by SEC commish and BCS chairman Mike Slive, who doesn't see a playoff coming any time soon. But this story out of Atlanta says Slive says a plus-one system for the BCS title game would be a good idea.
Speaking of Villanova and Georgetown, ESPN.com's Pat Forde says Florida pulled off the best underdog performance in a national championship game since the '85 Villanova hoops team. "Urban Meyer undressed The Vest," he says, though there's no reference to taking Tressel to the cleaners. The Boston Globe's Bob Ryan 'fesses up to being wrong about whether the Gators deserved to be in the game, and notes that the first team to hold the championships in football and basketball at the same time is not named USC or Notre Dame. Washington Post columnist Mike Wise calls Tressel "an impulsive, macho Texas hold 'em player" who blew the game by going for it on fourth down in the first quarter.
A Florida fan calls the horde of Ohioans who flooded Glendale last night "the rudest fans I have ever met, and I don't mean that in a bad way."
At the same time as the football game, Kansas State was hosting Texas Tech in the second half of the Big Monday hoops doubleheader. A game notable for the matchup of coaches Bob Huggins and Bobby Knight, but more memorable this morning because Wildcats star frosh Bill Walker ruptured his ACL and is done for the year. Another injury casualty last night was Nevada star Nick Fazekas, who hurt his left ankle, though he returned to the bench later -- and the Wolf Pack beat Boise State anyway.
And finally, here's a way to find every college football venue in the country using Google Earth. It came from a Syracuse football blog, which I would think leads to some kind of one-liner about the Orange having some free time these days.
