Thursday, February 12, 2004

Live from the Islands

This is the golden age of the internet. Someday, you'll have to pay for everything, and that trend has already started with MLB, the NFL, and most colleges requiring a fee to listen to broadcasts. However the University of Hawaii broadcasts all of its home basketball games over the internet with streaming video for free. Not only that but the production is pretty good.

The announcers, whose names I would mention if I knew them, are not your typical homers. Sure, they're clearly rooting for their Rainbow Warriors, but that bias is not evident in their analysis. As a bonus, the play-by-play guy says "Hawai'i" like he's a native. Here's the link.

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Pur-done

So much for the theory that the absence of Kenneth Lowe was holding Purdue back. They fell to Northwestern at home 40-39 in Lowe's return. It was a game that Purdue just couldn't lose. Sure, they have had some bad luck this year - they're 2-5 in games that went to overtime or were decided by 3 points or less. But they also had the great fortune of meeting Duke in Alaska, before Duke put it together. That win was the main reason they were in the dance discussion at this point, but no longer.

Purdue fans will have to live vicariously through alum Matt Painter, who looks headed to the tournament as head coach of Southern Illinois.

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

I don’t remember the salad bar incident in ‘02

Texas Tech professor Alan Reifman points out that there are eerie similarites between Texas Tech's results in Big 12 competition this year as compared to two years ago. In fact every conference game so far has had the same result with fairly close score differential, right down to the overtime loss in Lubbock vs. Texas.

I think this will come to an end tomorrow night when Tech travels to Norman. In 2002, Oklahoma won by 26. In order for that to happen this year, the Red Raiders would have to be held to less than 30 points. If this year's Texas Tech team is the team I think they are, they should win outright.