One of my favorite things about the NFL season is betting. I think the same can be said for a lot of football fans world-wide. The advice I offer is strictly optional, never make a bet you don’t feel comfortable with or you will just grow to resent me.

My Parlay Card (TEASER) Week 7:

Packers: -3
Colts: -8
Falcons: +10

And my EASY MONEY PICK OF THE WEEK IS:
Falcons: +4 (hell I even took them to win straight up)

Good luck this week, Win some $$$

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You can view and print the Feendz.com March Madness Tournament Bracket for free by going here:

Printable Feendz.com March Madness Tournament Bracket

Enjoy

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Last nights 3 hour and 36 minute EPIC game between Syracuse and UConn, that went into 6OT with a combined 244 points, 8 players fouling out and 6 players getting double-doubles, was the second longest game in conference history. It leaves me asking myself, after some pretty high scoring and intense Big East Conference Tournament games, is there going to be anything left for the big dance?!

“I can’t even feel my legs right now,” Flynn said. “It was a tough game, we battled it out…” and they are not done yet, not by a long shot “…but we have to turn it around — today (game ended at 1:22am) — and face a tough team in West Virginia.”

It seems like with a lot of major talent in the Big East this year could work against them in the NCAA Tournament. Teams that go deep are going to be tired and beat up, which in the past has cost great teams amazing conference wins, but disappointing first round NCAA Tournament losses.

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Now that its championship week in college basketball let’s see what kind of upsets are brewing. This is a list of teams that have won their conference tournaments and are automatic bids into the tournament:

Robert Morris (23-10) Northeast, Radford (18-11) Big South, Stephen F. Austin (17-7) Southland, Binghamton (21-8) American East, Western Kentucky (22-8) Sun Belt, Northern Iowa (22-10) MVC, VCU (24-9) CAA, Bowling Green (16-12) MAC, Morgan St (19-11) MEAC, Cornell (19-9) Ivy, American (23-7) Patriot, East Tenn St (21-10) Atl Sun, North Dakota St (23-6) Summit, Weber St (20-8) Big Sky, CS Northridge (14-13) Big West, Morehead St (17-15) OVC, Chattanooga (—–) SoCon, Alabama St (—–) SWAC, Cleveland St (—–) Horizon, Sienna (—–) MAAC, Gonzaga (—–) WCC. ((—–) signifies no record available at time)

Which one if any of these schools already in the tournament even have a chance to go anywhere let alone win ONE game. The obvious choice here is bracket mainstay Gonzaga, with Pargo and (mushroom man) Heyphelt they have some pieces that will allow them to make a run in the tourney. However if you watched any early season NCAA basketball you know Gonzaga got whopped by everyone good that they played which leads me to believe they are a one and done.

My dark horse from this list is VCU, they have this guy Maynor who led them to a win in the tourney 2 years ago when they upset Duke. Maynor has been the CAA player of the year the last two years and looks to be on the brink of establishing himself as the next Stephen Curry. They are really one of the only teams from this list that has a chance, but of course that will strongly depend on their matchup.

Other possibilities include WKU (they two games last year in the tourney, Sienna (back to back tourney appearances and has four or five really good 3 point shooters), and Northern Iowa (something about this team intrigues me).

But my favorite part of conference championship week is when the upset happens like last night with Cleveland St and now Butler is probably going to get an at-large which takes one more at large bid away from a St. Mary’s or San Diego St (who IMO don’t deserve to be in anyways). Bubbles bursting all week and I look forward to the major conference tourneys this weekend most notably the Big East, Big Ten, SEC, and ACC.

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So ESPN.com’s Joe Lunardi is a Bracketology god and seems to know everything that will happen in college basketball come march. As of this week he is reporting that the last four into the tourney are South Carolina, Maryland, Michigan and New Mexico. The last four out then would be Arizona, Kentucky, Providence, and San Diego State, and he also includes the next four out which are Virginia Tech, Miami (FL), Rhode Island, and Saint Mary’s. Taking all this information in I truly believe that Providence is getting the total shaft here, Michigan does have some wins against top 5 teams but they play in a much weaker conference than Providence (who also have a couple very nice wins). I also have to shudder at the fact that New Mexico a team from the Mountain West could make it over most of the 8 final teams out.

If it wasn’t enough to debate the last teams in, here is a breakdown of some of the teams and their seeds:

1’s : Pittsburgh, UConn, UNC, and Oklahoma (Does the Big East deserve two, is Oklahoma a true #1)

2’s: Duke, Memphis, Michigan St, and Louisville (Memphis is questionable and does the Big East deserve 2 1’s and a 2?)

3’s: Wake Forest, Villanova, Kansas, and Missouri (Does the Big 12 rank this high, and Wake has a bunch of bad losses)

4’s: Xavier, UCLA, Washington, and Clemson (Big ?’s with Washington and Clemson)

Wisconsin is a 10 seed and Marquette is a 5 seed (I had to add them because I’m such a homer)

This is just a run down of the top 4 seeds as Lunardi has them if you want the full list here is the link: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology

Finally, the other interesting thing I noticed while studying up on my bracketology is the conference breakdown and whether or not the conferences are deserving of so many teams or not enough.

Big Ten (8), ACC (7), Big East (7), Big 12 (6), Mountain West (4), Pac-10 (4), SEC (3), A-10 (2), Missouri Valley (2)

I think it’s a joke that the Big East and ACC don’t have more and that the Mountain West having as many teams as the Pac-10 or more than the SEC (which is a question in it’s own right; what has happened to SEC basketball)??

What do you all think? What teams should be in and what teams should be out, what should the seeding look like, and what conferences deserve the most bids? Let’s all try to put on our best Joe Lunardi impressions…

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So in a recent comment done by “The Chosen One” on the bandwagon post, he wrote it was okay to be on the Stephen Curry bandwagon. Can I please say that Steph Curry is a douche and won’t turn into anything in the pros.

Okay so as you know Stephen Curry because america’s true underdog last season by leading the NCAA in scoring and carrying his team to the elite 8 . They list him at 6′3″ but there is no way he is over 6 foot.

What he did last season was a great story no doubt about it, but can we please stop talking about him. Why is ESPN televising a Davidson game when you can just put on any Big East game. I will tell you why, they want to push Curry on us and show flashes of Dell Curry in the stands, which we all know Dell loves because he never got this much attention throughout his in entire 13 year career in the NBA.

I know Davidson moved Curry to the point so that it would up his draft stock but don’t kid yourself, the kid will never be anything in the pros. He shoots under the 40% mark and he wont be playing against the bum competition of the Southern Conference, he will be going against the NBA and its amazing talent of players, that will tear apart the skin and bones Curry.

I’m just saying Curry is soft, no doubt he made college basketball fun to watch, but please this guy isn’t special he just shoots 25 times a game, if I shot that much I could be averaging 28 points a game in the Southern Conference as well!

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SO its almost tourney time and the most recent bracketology has the conference breakdowns as such

ACC(8)

Big East and Big Ten(7)

Big 12, Pac 10, and SEC(5)

I don’t think that the Pac 10 is legit if a team like Washington is your front runner in the conference. The Big 12 other than Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas who do you really have strong? Texas? I doubt anyone thinks Texas is a contender. The SEC is alright but I don’t think they have one team that could stake claim to being in the upper echelon of teams in the country. The Big 10 is pretty soft in my opinion. Purdue is overrated. The only team that has a chance to go all the way is Michigan State because all the other teams in the league are soft as hell. Now it comes down to the two conferences that are worth a damn The ACC has UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, Clemson and Florida State all in the top 25. Lets not kid ourselves Clemson and Florida State don’t have a chance to advance and I’m close to throwing Wake in that boat, in my opinion only UNC and Duke have a chance. The Big East is hands down, no doubt about the best conference in America. I mean 5 teams in the top 10 can you say d-o-m-i-n-a-t-i-o-n? I would take the top 6 teams in the Big East over any team in America. I guarantee that a Big East team wins the entire thing. If you disagree with that you’re an idiot!

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So as we all know by now it will more than likely come down to Griffin winning the player of the year award, but it brings up a question of who is going to have the better pro career?

I don’t think that there is a question that Thabeet will be the better pro and have the longer career.  I understand that Griffin has more talent, but keep in mind that Thabeet has only been playing basketball for 4 years, so he is a raw talent with a 7′3″ frame compared to Griffin who is going to be a 6′10″ power forward. I understand that Charles Barkley is probably the best power forward ever to play and was only 6′7″. However, unlike Barkley, Griffen is soft, he isn’t going to be effective in the pros. I see Griffin being basically a Charles Oakley type where as I can see Thabeet having maybe a Hakeem career, if he can develop a shot.

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