Archive for March 15th, 2009

Mar200915

semerson

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Horn's reaction

Darrin Horn said he was “obviously disappointed” not to get selected to the NCAA tournament. He invoked seniors Zam Fredrick and Branden Conrad, who won’t have another shot.
“This team has accomplished a whole lot this year, and I think it exceeded a lot of expectations,” Horn said. “The history would tell you that if you’re [...]

Mar200915

semerson

1

NCAA teleconference

It’s at 7 p.m. I’ll put any pertinent comments in this blog post.
My quick reaction from the selection show:
No surprise on South Carolina. Once the first region (Midwest) went without an SEC team, you knew only three had made it, and we knew who those three would be. Further illustrating South Carolina’s plight, it wasn’t [...]

Mar200915

semerson

8

Mississippi State …

… Just made Mike Slive a very happy man, and a bunch of bubble teams very, very angry.
The SEC will definitely not be a two-bid league now, as Mississippi State earns the automatic bid by winning the league tournament. Tennessee and LSU will be at-large selections, according to any sane person who’s been paying attention.
The [...]

Mar200915

semerson

3

The final bubble watch

No analysts are talking about South Carolina anymore. If somehow the name “South Carolina” pops up on the selection show tonight, it will be story of the night, and plenty of people will be blind-sided.
But we said we’d take this through to the end, you never know whether the committee might pull a surprise, and [...]