Posts Tagged ‘Tigers’

Start with Caleb Peiffer’s preview at Basketball Prospectus — this is the first time teams that finished one and two in the Pomeroy Ratings met in the final — before motoring on over to Beyond The Arc, where Mike Miller sees some ‘Melo in Memphis’s frosh point guard Derrick Rose and finish it up by [...]

There’s not a whole lot for members of the Mid-Major nation to get excited about it in tonight’s NCAA Championship game between Memphis and Kansas, the latter side being a true college hoops blueblood while the Tigers are an occasional Final Four interloper. Sure, the 38-1 Tigers may play in Conference USA, which is a Mid-Major league if I’ve ever seen one, but they are in no way, shape, or form a Mid-Major squad. Memphis is a power conference team that plays in a conference without any power. All that being said, any game is better when you can take sides and cheer for one team so we’re stuck with our yearly question of who to cheer for in the NCAA Championship game.

Princeton-Penn was “The Game” when it came to Ivy League hoops? I do but it seems like it was eons ago that the Tigers mattered in the Ivy League while the Quakers have only recently been going through a downturn. For what it’s worth — and it’s not worth that much this season — the two sides went at tonight at the Palestra in a game that seems like it was more mixed martial arts then hoops as the two sides combined to commit 52 fouls and take 57 freebies in slugfest won 70-65 by the Quakers.