In which I don't wear fedoras but don't quite do this either.
Big win for Drexel last night, getting revenge over William and Mary and turning the DAC into a hornet's nest. Bob Ford watches the knife hovering over Drexel's head as Selection Sunday looms.
Big game tonight at the Palestra between St. Joe's and Temple. For yet another year, Hawks fans are starting to believe their team can make a run in the A-10 Tournament.
The Penn student paper considers the psychology of free throws, and a columnist writes that Brian Grandieri has discovered the lost art of the mid-range jump shot.
The Villanova student paper trusts in Dante Cunningham as the Wildcats get ready for their final three games of the regular season.
SI.com's Seth Davis investigates the possibility of an Ivy League basketball tournament, even though he agrees with me that it's a terrible idea.
Out in Bethlehem, Bucknell got a win over Lehigh to keep up the chase against Holy Cross in the Patriot League.
On the football side, Marc Narducci talks to Camden native and former Tennessee lineman Turk McBride ahead of the NFL scouting combine.
National news after the jump.
Illinois routed Michigan in the final appearance for Chief Illiniwek, whom the NCAA deemed offensive and thus banned. I get it, and have no problem with things that offend Native Americans so long as they are actually offended. I'm not sure that judgement should be left to the NCAA, though. That link, by the way, has video that is really worth watching,
Xavier demolished Rhode Island, 98-72, in Cincinnati, leaving me without any more superlative verbs but making the question of whether Xavier deserves an at-large bid even more open than it was.
Miami upset Virginia, which will not make the Penn Charter folks happy.
North Carolina beat N.C. State, but the bigger news is that Wolfpack coach Sidney Lowe did not coach the second half after feeling faint at halftime. He was taken to a local hospital and treated for dehydration. Best wishes to him.
And in Durham, the residents of Krzyzewskiville have incorporated a new town ahead of the women's game against North Carolina on Sunday (at the same time as the Ohio State-Wisconsin game, sadly): Goestenkorsopolis. Population: "26 and rising."
