As much as I love all the information available on the web and truth be told, I'm a junkie as far as getting online and staying online all day, I still eat up baseball's box scores in the paper like the pre-net era. It's why today is one of my favorite days of the year. It follows the first full day of counting baseball. Even the basic boxes provided by the Register Guard can provide you a pretty solid angle of what went down in every game. Certainly I take the next step at the ESPN or MLB site to get pitch counts and analysis, but for a baseball junkie like me it remains a daily morning gift.
Quite the NCAA final with Duke surviving this terrific Butler group. Still don't see why Coach K ordered his big fella Zoubek to deliberately miss that last foul shot up 2 points. I see the no time out, desperation shot mentality. But even after a make, they still would have needed a similar heave that Brandon Hayward nearly drained at the gun. If the free throw is good, we go to overtime, under the scenario the Blue Devil coach painted, they lose by one. I don't get it.
So where do you rank this one for a Final?? Kansas over Memphis in OT 2 years ago. Illinois took UNC late into the 2nd half in the 05 game. Arizona's title under Lute Olson in 1997 was a dandy in overtime versus then defending champ Kentucky. For riveting, memorable stuff, I harken back to the infamous Chris Webber illegal timeout against North Carolina in 1993, Dean Smith's 2nd and last championship. That just covered 17 years so it's high on anyone's list.
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