BS Tourney Challenge -- Still Up For Grabs

It seems like weeks ago that we started the BS Tourney Challenge. Oh, yeah, it was. Since then, the Boilermakers have achieved about what we thought they might, the Big East was anointed the best conference ever by Digger Phelps, and Penn State won a national basketball championship.

And here we are, with just one more college basketball game to go this season. Remember, the winner of the BS Challenge gets a snazzy t-shirt (similar to picture) and the chance to voice themselves on our airwaves (Webwaves?), while second place only gets a t-shirt. Third place gets an ass-grab from Tim. And remember, coffee is for closers.

So where are we? Our leader in the clubhouse -- and winner if UNC wins the whole thing -- is DELA WHERE????, who accurately prognosticated MSU versus UNC in the final game. Nicely done.

Hail Leroy hangs on to second place and will continue to hang on with a UNC win.

But who can derail these two? The top 8 in the standings all have UNC winning and thus will all remain in lockstep if that happens. However, Digger's Stinky Palm and The Bracket have MSU winning it all and, thus, will finish 1-2 if that happens. Interestingly, only about six entries have Sparty winning it all. So either Purdue's blowout over them made people think they didn't have what it takes or everyone began believing the ESPN hype about the Big East.

If you wind up being the winner -- and really, the only two winners can be DELA WHERE???? or Digger's Stinky Palm -- please shoot us a note at boiledsports@gmail.com so we can correspond and get your guest-spot set up. Your brilliance will be required by early afternoon on Thursday and will be posted Friday morning so start thinking about what to say. It's kind of like the Oscars.

Good luck, all.

Weekend Wrap

Best Conference Ever...Further Proof
Much to the chagrin of EsPN, Izzo's Spartans defeated the pseudo student athletes of UConn to get to the NCAA championship. I've thought all season that UNC was the best team in America...and Williams is a pretty good coach- that's a tough combo to beat. Regardless, I'll be rooting for the Spartans in spite of my vested interest for the Tar Heels (I picked them in all of my brackets).

The most intersting biproduct of Saturday's games in Detroit was the fact that no teams from the best conference ever were remaining at the end of the evening.

I surmised last week that the Big East might not do quite as well in the round of eight and four...and once the high seeds of Louisville, Pitt and UConn were all but neutralized by the higher-level of competition in the last two rounds, this bulletproof conference turned out to be quite mortal. While the Northeast bias of the sports media will not apologize for crowning the Big East as something it simply was not, let's all remember this in the coming seasons. They still decide the champion on the field of play...at least in basketball.

Indy Car Season Begins
The Indy Car season got under way today in St. Petersburg, FL...and Penske's Ryan Briscoe held off Ryan Hunter-Reay to win. I'm a big fan of RHR and think if he gets on the right team, he'll be a contender for the championship. Problem is, with Rahal/Letterman not running a full season, Hunter-Reay has ended up on Vision Racing...another team with limited resources. But the dude can drive.
Sadly (not really) Danica Patrick ended up in the tire barrier after being cleaned up in a Matos mis-step. The funny thing about this incident is Ms. Patrick vowed to be less-angry...and more professional this season just prior to the race. That promise lasted about one and one-half hours. She is right that the rookie, Matos, was out of line...but once again, she acted like a baby making sure to let everyone in the world know that she was the victim...again. Poor Danica.

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