Duke v. UConn 2

Nice to know the cognoscenti are catching up. Gregg Doyle jumps on the Tilam and Thew bandwagon.

In Boston, Duke blew a big lead. At home, Duke could not get 5 points of separation against Florida State. Andy Katz at ESPN says the close games will help Duke in the NCAAs. While I agree with the sentiment regarding BC, a Florida State-Duke match-up is like a second rounder. If the Blue Devils are having trouble getting to the Sweet 16, we are in a parallel world. I still think Duke is a Final Four team, but the "fear factor" of playing them this year is going away. I would also note that the Duke-BC crew are being reviewed for the non-call on Williams and the Duke-Florida State crew received a suspension for give FS a technical foul, Alexander Johnson's fifth (Williams picked up the T for bumping Johnson).

UConn's win at Indiana was not as close as the final score. UConn was giving up uncontested baskets at the end to run down the clock. Indiana made two great runs in the early first half and mid-way through the second half, but the outcome was never really in doubt. As Doyle says above, it was a 15 point game. But what was up with the refs??? In the very beginning of the IU comeback they must have blown (and I mean blown) about four or five calls in a row. I would not say that they were one way (though the offensive foul call against Rudy Gay on a defensive rebound was just nuts and hitting Killingsworth with his third foul at the time hurt IU). Not quite raising to the "suspicions of bribery" level of the pro-Duke calls, but WTF?