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The WBB team’s success reminds me that there is life after the end of MBB season and before I really get into baseball. In their honor, it’s time to review some of the other winter and spring sports that no one really cares about, so that I can elicit a groan from the [...]

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I’m doing a lot of thinking about Stallings’ radio comments, discussed here. As I suggested on elsewhere on VS , I think you can make a reasonable argument that beating Tennessee was the worst thing to happen to us, and that beating Memphis was the worst thing to happen to them. [...]

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I still have a few thoughts about the men’s season and tournament rattling around, but I’m remiss not to spend more time talking about the 4th-seeded Vanderbilt that actually plays good defense and rebounds well.   To my embarrassment I bought a $25 season ticket for this season and then never went to any games, so [...]

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Last year I squirreled some of those away (since Rivals doesn’t archive more than a few weeks), and it turned [...]

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Few fairly insignificant notes, now that I’m back home after the lost weekend in Tampa:
* I went back to the default theme (in black and gold, natch) because the Clueless theme won’t link to pages properly. Hopefully I can hack that theme and get it back up here soon.
* The WYSIWYG editor in [...]

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Perhaps one reason why the Vanderbilt-Siena upset was so jarring is that, quite literally, we are a fan base that doesn’t know how to deal with the role of favorites.   I knew this dynamic had changed in the back of my mind — and I knew on a cognitive level that Clemson and Villanova fans [...]

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The Saints’ lousy performance against Villanova is slightly disappointing but utterly predictable. That’s the way things work. If they could shoot all the time like they did Friday night, well, they’d be 29-3 and at a dangerous 7-seed like Butler. (Contrary to my selective memory, 13-seeds actually do win in [...]

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Well, that one will certainly take a while to live down!
(To state the obvious, this is going to be a post of mopey emotional drivel with just a modicum of analysis. That’s how I roll. At least you’ve been warned.)
I determined that the best way to think about this game was [...]

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I’m cautiously confident about the Vanderbilt Siena game. The more I look at this game in detail the more confident I feel. Those feelings aren’t always right (see VU-MTSU football), but this is feeling remarkably similar to our last three NCAA-invited teams that faced naysayers and made the Sweet Sixteen each time. I’m still emotionally [...]

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Vanderbilt will probably be a 4- or 5-seed. We might fall to a 6, but with the weakness of our cohort (Purdue, Indiana, Connecticut aren’t really distinguishing themselves) it’s probably at worst a 5. So we will likely play in Tampa or Denver, and if we make the Sweet Sixteen we [...]

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