Goodnight You Princes of Providence, You Kings of New England

It's pretty much over. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Sad, sad day. Pc’s probably out of the tournament.

So who wins the tourney now that PC’s out??!!

UNC, Louisville, UConn, Wake Forest, and Duke are the teams I think can win it all (Memphis, Pitt and Oklahoma are all secretly terrible).

The Best Team in the Nation…

…won tonight.

(AP Photo/Stew Milne)

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

I just watched this (props to friarblog for finding it). Most people might not really find it entertaining, but it pumped me up (and was hilarious).

“I was hungry. I was desperate… we played ball at practice, before practice we played, after practice we played… then we’d go play pickup games, me and Ernie, in South Providence.“

If that doesn’t pump you up, I dunno man. And for those who don’t know, South Providence is legit. Joe Mazzulla wishes he was from a place like South Providence, instead of being from Johnston and going to a high school that made you wear a tie everyday.

So I have this to say. “I promise you one thing, a lot of good will come out of me watching this video, you will never see any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of the intramural basketball season and you will never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of the season.“

LETS GO. AINT NEVER SKEERRRRRD.

aaaand back to work.

Let’s go over a few things…

UNC just lost to BC 85-78.

PC lost to BC 81-76.

Duke beat Rhode Island 82-79.

PC beat Rhode Island 66-65.

What does this mean?

Nothing of course.

FUTURE EDIT: Did anybody notice that Va Tech only score THIRTEEN points in the second half last night? woooooooow.  Our intramural team is better than that.

He just sucks

I guarantee everyone, there is a 100% chance Joe Alexander will be a bust in the upcoming NBA draft. I couldn’t believe he was leaving, and then I couldn’t believe anyone actually wanted him. Now apparently he is a top ten pick. This is ridiculous. Why you ask? He just sucks.

He’s not good. All he does is shoot midrange jumpers over smaller defenders, defenders that in the NBA won’t be small. They will also be quicker. Alexander could NEVER get to the hoop against anyone resembling a decent D-1 defender last year. He will NNNNEEEEEEVVVVer get to the basket in the NBA.

I pay a lot of attention to Big East basketball. Joe Alexander got destroyed in the first round of the big east tournament by guys like Geoff McDermott, Jamine Peterson, and Alex Kellogg. Of course, these Providence Friars missed a TON of layups and dunks so they lost the game, but Alexander sucked. Look at these pictures. Above you have Joe late in defensive help not even close to guarding Weyinmi Efejuku. Below you have Joe trying to drive by average defender Brian McKenzie and, well, not. Get used to a lot of that picture on the left if your team drafts him. Sure these pictures are cherry picked, but Alexander dunking on no one is an even less accurate judge of his ability.

Alexander is a below average NBA defender, a guy who can dunk but can never get to the basket, and a guy who has a great mid-range jumper when he is open, which again, he never will be in the NBA because he is slow.

But he does speak Chinese, so I guess he’s got that goin for him.