Miami, Duke and Wake Forest rule the day.
- No letdown for Wake Forest on the road at Boston College. Wake wears the burden of legitimate title contender well by jumping to a 20 point halftime lead and basically keeping it right there. Jeff Teague continues to be hot with 29 points. Teague also brought shame and sadness to the life of Tyrese Rice who had this 20 points negated by committing eight turnovers. That is 12 turnovers combine between Rice and Ty Lawson. I can hardly wait to see how many Wake forces from Maryland or Georgia Tech
- Speaking of the Yellow Jackets. They lost to Duke in a game they very well could have stayed in except the Jackets had no clue how to take care of the basketball and well they have no idea how to take care of the basketball. Georgia Tech also missed multiple easy shots. Duke does play solid defense. Some of GT’s problems were due to that and some of them were due to the fact there is no continuity in the program. On a night when top recruit Derrick Favors committed to the Yellow Jackets you have to wonder how Paul Hewitt keeps bring in this kind of talent but cannot keep a decent team together. I think the answer lies in the fact that Hewitt has had so many one and done players. From the outside it seems like Hewitt is an easy coach to play for and after one year he is perfectly fine if you leave. Then again that has always been the case at GT, even under Cremins except back then they left after two years and not one.
- Miami fell behind by 17 points in the 2nd half but rallied to beat Maryland. That is a heartbreaker for the Terps and Gary Williams who has been behind the eight ball since winning the national title in 2002. For Miami, it might not bode well for the next game since the game following a huge rally for victory is usually a tough outing for the team that did the rallying. Miami goes to Chapel Hill next.
- Virginia Tech beat Richmond. Anybody care? Anybody?
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I went to bed at halftime and I am shocked by that Maryland result.
FYI, a friend of mine ailed and asked me whether it was true if Kentucky had the winningest program in college basketball. Here is my response, which I believe is overlooked by many fans:
Greg,
It depends on how you define “winningest.”
Kentucky has won about 15 or 20 more games in its history than UNC, although both schools keep finding previously unpublished results from 100 years ago. They have also won more titles overall than UNC although over half of their titles predate Bill Russell and integration, and are suspect since blacks weren’t usually allowed to play back then.
UCLA has won by far the most titles overall, all of them in the modern integrated age, so I would probably cite them as the winningnest program.
In terms of titles overall, it is UCLA, Kentucky, Indiana, UNC, Duke, Kansas.
In terms of titles since the Russell era and integration began, roughly 1955 in the tournament, but later in some conferences, it is UCLA, UNC, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, NC State.
william, if you check out the UK website for men’s hoops they have a highly interesting link to basically an all-time college basketball statistical analysis. It is fairly cool to look over…
Anyone worried about Miami and McClinton? Besides me I mean.
William, back on your topic of titles and winning-est of all. How would you necessarily present the facts, which coincides with Wooden’s retirment following title # 10, that UCLA has a sole champeenship won in 1995 ?
With the tournament widened for additional entrants 2-4 times post-Wooden, expanded to 64 in 1985 (?), I have wondered if there is some demarkation line for the post-Wooden era. His UCLA teams were just sick, sick with talent