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March 20, 2006

I trust the Palmer House still has TVs in its rooms

We didn't get to see most of last night's game; we were in the wrong region. Here's ESPN:

West Virginia has won two games in consecutive NCAAs for the first time since the famed [Jerry] West, whose silhouette graces the NBA's logo, led it to the title game in 1959 and a regional semifinal the next year.

And the Washington Post:

While there will soon be a life-size statue of Jerry West standing outside the West Virginia Coliseum, the greatness of the Mountaineers' basketball program no longer rests on one man's shoulders.

And, keeping things in perspective, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

"You knew it was going to be like a root canal in the second half. They just came after us with everything they had, but in the end we are still standing," Beilein said. "You look at our players right now and we got ice bags all over the place, cramps all over the place, but we did not quit. So we keep on playing for at least one more game."

Chicago had better be in the right place on Thursday night, 'cause when I get back to my room, I want to see the end of this game:

[T]he No. 22 and sixth-seeded Mountaineers (22-10) are in Thursday night’s Atlanta Regional semifinals at the Georgia Dome. There, at the same site where the school’s football team earned a landmark victory over Georgia in January’s Sugar Bowl, the Mountaineers will get a rematch with second-seeded and No. 9 Texas at 9:40 p.m.

The Longhorns (28-6) — who handled North Carolina State 75-54 Sunday in Dallas — beat WVU 76-75 just before Thanksgiving in the semifinals of the Guardians Classic in Kansas City.

All we have to do it score two points more on Texas than we did in November.

Posted by senioritis at March 20, 2006 06:50 AM

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