Saturday, March 29, 2003

Kentucky Blue(s) Being a Kentucky Basketball fan,  I'm a bit deflated tonight (sports wise --- otherwise it was a pretty good day ---- see the post later today) .  Actually,  the gloomy outlook for the Cats began Thursday night in the first half when Keith Bogans went down,  and then finding out later that he had a high ankle sprain.  They outlasted Wisconsin,  but the road ahead looked to be too much to ask without a healthy Bogans.  The one chance was to outshoot and outhustle Marquette,  and give Bogans another week to heal before taking on Arizona or Kansas (Kansas won) and then the final (probably Oklahoma or Texas).  But when Chuck Hayes got in foul trouble,  and nothing would fall in the first half (26% shooting,  including 1-8 from 3,  while Marquette hit 7 of 13 from 3 and 56% overall),  it was a little much.   The injury really shot down the title hopes.   I didn't watch the next game until the latter half of the second half.  I'm really pulling for Roy now (Roy Williams of Kansas).  Could well turn out that 3 of the Final 4 teams are Big 12 teams.  Wonder if that's ever happened?  Funny that a movie on HBO (High Crimes) I was watching to "drown my sorrows" had Ashley Judd in it,  a big Kentucky fan and constant shot of cameramen at the games.   She had  the Kentucky team over to her house in Nashville for barbeque last weekend when they played the first round games.  Great year, Blue!  A shame to have been cut short. 9:18:44 PM