1. LSU plays some killer defense, exhibits a rare mania when it comes to rebounding, and, ahem, is slated in my bracket for the final four.
2. This Memphis team looks a bit sluggish, but I have to wonder: is it their shorts? Tall size capri pants in the JCrew catalogue have shorter inseams. While I've always thought it was retrograde to grumble about changing sports fashions, these 'shorts' are getting to the point--i.e., way below the knee--where they really should be called gauchos, or better, warmups.
3. Doesn't Land's End sell sweaters the color of UCLA's uniforms?
4. UCLA is also slated for my final four.
5. Lemon and wine-braised lamb over brown basmati rice, while delicious, is a little too fancy and unwieldy to eat on the pullout couch because the LSU-Texas game went into overtime, though the whippets weren't complaining.
6. College players seem to commit more traveling violations these days (see number 2).
7. Today's games have featured a surprising number of off-balance three pointers that have come surprisingly close to going in.
8. Most cheerleaders, like most players at the end of the bench, look bored out of their minds until the last three minutes.
9. Greg Gumbel's pen matches his tie. When did Land's End start selling pens?
10. I may have mentioned this somewhere else on this site, but LSU and UCLA are both in my bracket's final four.
