Pitt's Tournament Win from Another Perspective

The Seventh seeded Pitt Panthers won the Big East Tournament by defeating Georgetown 74-65 at the Madison Square Garden. Although I did not expect them to win, I am certainly not surprised. This is a Pitt team they defeated Duke at MSG back in December.

Pittsburgh then lost Mike Cook for the season and their point guard, Levance Field broke his foot. Fields is now back and the Panthers will be in the AP Top 25 this week. They will garner a four or a five seed in the NCAA TOURNAMENT.

Someone should show Pitt how to shoot free throws. It was painstaking watching Pitt miss 22 of them last night.

Pete Thamel of the New York Times compared the Panthers title run to the New York Giants unlikely Super Bowl win over the Patriots.

Desmond Conner of The Hartford Courant wanted to take Mike Brey's Big East Coach of the Year award and give it to Pittsburgh's Jamie Dixon.

Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe fell in love with Levance Fields. I am not even joking.
Just read the excerpt from his story on Pitt:

"Fields is just returning to action after missing a bunch of games with a foot fracture, and after watching him play you wonder how he has managed to get this far in his career without breaking half the bones in his body, plus a few of his opponents'. He comes at you hard on every possession. You can feel his presence on the floor, even if you're sitting in the cheapest of the cheap seats".

For some reason I do not think Bob Ryan has ever sat in the cheap seats.

Luke Winn of Sports Illustrated now wants to challenge Sam Young to Scrabble. He defeated Hasheem Thabeet earlier this week. Then wrote a story about it. He included pictures in his story that looked like they came from a 1.5 mega pixel camera phone.

The roof nearly blew off the Georgia Dome Friday night, a crane fell off a roof in Manhattan yesterday.

The SEC closed the SEC Tournament to everybody except the pep bands, cheerleaders and journalists. The tournament was moved to Georgia Tech's Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Not exactly an ideal venue or situation.

I am sure the large contingent of Kentucky fans protested this news.

The Georgia Bulldogs did not seem to mind the new venue. They won an unlikely doubleheader yesterday. Doubleheaders are for baseball and AAU basketball.

It must have been pretty stressful having to move a tournament from one venue to another. I wonder who was in charge of the logistics?

Speaking of moving and logistics, the Pitt Panthers should seriously think of moving their home games to the Madison Square Garden. They were 5-0 at the Garden this year. They are 23-8 there since 2001.