Here is the results from the afternoon games.
#7 Nevada needed overtime to get by #10 Creighton 77-71.
#2 Wisconsin struggled in the first half but rebounded to defeat #15 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
#5 Tennessee ran past #12 Long Beach State 121-86.
#11 seed Winthrop upset Notre Dame 74-64.
And here is your result from the 4:40 game.
#3 Oregon struggled mightily but held on to defeat #14 Miami of Ohio 58-56.
Well here are the scores from the last set of games for Thursday.
Another minor upset as #9 seed Xavier beat #8 seed BYU 79-77
Pittsburgh easily took care of Wright State 79-58.
North Carolina beat up on the Hilltoppers of Eastern Kentucky 86-55.
Indiana defeated Gonzaga 70-57.
On the day, I was 12 of 16 in my pool.
So far the higher seeds are holding true.
Georgetown beat Belmont 80-55
Butler beat Old Dominion 57-46
Washington State beat Oral Roberts 70-54. My first pick of the day that was wrong.
Texas A&M beat the University of Pennsylvania 68-52.
In the 4:40 game, Vanderbilt destroyed George Washington 77-44.
According to the AP, Gonzaga star basketball player, Josh Heytvelt, has been charged with felony possession of a controlled substance. The police found just over an ounce of hallucinogenic mushrooms in his bag. Theo Davis, who was with Heytvelt, is being charged with misdemeanor possession of the reefer.
If Heytvelt is convicted, he could face 5 years of being someone’s bitch (Note to Josh: buy duct tape) and have to pay a $10,ooo fine. Odds are there will be some sort of plea deal. Since he is a first time drug offender, he would probably get 6 months or lesser. And from the sounds of it, Washington state has a similar program of accelerated rehabilitation that we have in Connecticut. A law many of our fine athletes at UCONN have taken advantage of.
To me it is going to be interesting to see how the university reacts. School officials have said that they won’t take any action until the legal system has run its course. Because this is a serious offense, I would think that Heytvelt’s playing days in Spokane are probably done.
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Here are the Rankings for the Men’s and Women’s teams of Division 1 (Feb 19-Feb 25)
Bobby Knight is always full of opinions. So his latest comments about the NBA rule that players must be 1 yr out of high school before entering the NBA don’t surprise me in the least.
Here is what Knight said to the AP:
“Because now you can have a kid come to school for a year and play basketball and he doesn’t even have to go to class,” Knight said Monday. “He certainly doesn’t have to go to class the second semester. I’m not exactly positive about the first semester. But he would not have to attend a single class the second semester to play through the whole second semester of basketball.
“That, I think, has a tremendous effect on the integrity of college sports.”
A lot of the coaches like the rule. It allows a player to come to a school and show off his talents for the NBA. I have to say though, I am in agreement with Knight on this one. What is to say the kid attends class in the second semester? He would definitely have to attend classes in the first semester and get the required grades to stay eligible. But after that, why would the kid want to attend class. He knows he is going to be entering the NBA draft in the spring. He knows he will be making millions of dollars.
Now I am sure that his family probably has taken an insurance policy out in case of injury to protect his future. But what if he gets injured and has to go back for another year. What happens now when he blew off classes in the second semester? Well for starters, odds are he would be ineligible for the first semester and would have to get his grades up.
So why can’t the NBA consider doing what the NFL does? The NFL says that you must be 3 years removed from high school before entering the draft. This gives most of the kids 3 years of a college education. To me this would be the smartest thing the NBA can do. By being in school 3 years, most of the kids would be close to finishing their degree allowing them to go back and finish.
The schools are spending millions and millions of dollars on scholarships and what do they get from it. Most of what they get is the exposure to their school and the revenue generated from the program. You would think that they would be more prouder of the fact that their graduate is in the NBA or any other sport rather than hearing well he attended “No Name University.”
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Here is an update to the situation involving the arrests of Gonzaga basketball players, Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis.
The players were pulled over by police because the tail lights on the Blazer were not on. Upon approaching the vehicle, the officers smelt marijuana coming from the car and also saw a bag of ‘shrooms hanging out of Heytvelt’s bag. The bag had Heytvelt’s name and number on it. (Note to athlete’s: if you are gonna carry illegal drugs on you, don’t put them in a bag with your name and number it. At least steal one of your teammates so you can blame them and say you grabbed the wrong bag.)
Also in the bag were some brownie muffins which contained mushrooms in them. Ummm, I’ve heard of hash brownies but mushroom brownies. That’s a new one to me.
Davis had been doing bong hits earlier that night at a party and was a joint was found in his possession when he was searched in a pat down by police.
While they haven’t been formally charged with anything, they were arrested for investigation of a controlled substance. What is interesting to me is that Smith is not from the United States. I have to wonder if he is convicted of a crime, would he be deported back to Canada, where he makes his home.
So what is the lesson learned by these two athletes. Don’t do drugs. Even when you think you may not get caught, you will. In this case they did. They are now paying for it. Yes, they are young and almost everyone in college experiments, but there is a time and a place for that. As a college athlete, you are a role model and you have to remember that you are representing the university for which you play. If this was someone who worked for a major company or any company for that matter, odds are, if convicted, they would probably lose their employment.
My opinion is this. If they are convicted, they should lose their scholarships and be expelled from school. How many student-athletes get caught doing something wrong and they only get suspended for a few games. These two need to be made examples of.
Say no to drugs!!!
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Here are the Rankings for the Men’s and Women’s teams of Division 1 (Feb 12-Feb 18)