Ugh

Dumb Badgers lost to UNLV. The game wasn't televised locally (Chicago area) so I didn't see much of it. Apparently, the Badgers started out the game sluggishly again, rallied to take a brief lead but eventually ran out of steam. Oh well. They had a good season. Better luck next year.

Whew!

The Badgers won their first round game against Texas A & M -- Corpus Christi 76-63. Not nearly the blowout the final score would indicate. Boxscore here. The hyphenated school actually had a substantial lead through most of the game. Finally, around the last 12 minutes of the second half the Badgers decided to stop screwing around.

Not a very auspicious start. I actually thought they were losing to a community college since my bracket just said "Texas A & M C.C." Not that I would have felt any better if Wisconsin had dropped this one. Yech. They'll have to play a full 40 minutes from here on out. UNLV may not be the UNLV of old but I doubt that 25 percent shooting like they shot most of the game is going to beat anyone left in the tourney.

None the less: GO BIG RED!

The Big Dance

It's March and that means the NCAA basketball tourney. I didn't fill out brackets this year. With all the parody in the game, it's a crapshoot anyways. I'm just looking forward to watching the Wisconsin Badgers go deep in the tourney. They'll probably get knocked out by Florida if they get that far but hopefully they'll play better than they did against Ohio State in the finals of the Big Ten Tournament. Whatever happens, they've had a heck of a year. They've had as good a season basketball and football-wise as anyone in the nation save Florida. GO BIG RED. Bring home the cheeze!