Final Four

I'm excited about the championship game on Monday, although probably not as much as Kevin is. Illinois reminds me in a number of ways of my high school team, which took second in the state tournament this year. They have three outstanding guards (though one is more of a slasher/jumper), solid post play that is respectable and sometimes great, but not always consistent. They lack size, compared to larger teams, in both bulk and height, but tend to make up for it by spreading the floor and good anticipation. They may get beat rebounding, but they pass as well as or better than anyone and look to push the ball up the floor with a lot of turnovers on the defensive end. They have more than five shooters on the team who need to be guarded outside. Hopefully Illinois doesn't also end up losing the in the title game.

It's kind of weird that three of the four coaches in St. Louis this weekend have been at their present positions three years or less. It's also kind of weird to me both that the Arizona-Illinois game wasn't voted as the game of the tournament or that Arizona-Oklahoma St. wasn't even on the list when they showed a poll on TV today.

I'm still waiting for some clever sports site to hook up an RSS feed with game recaps for specific teams, and maybe a second for news and other related stuff to the same team. It seems like it would make a lot of sense to me, and probably would not be too hard; every time a story gets filed with certain attributes, update the RSS feed. It's possible that this exists, but I haven't found it yet.