How important is the three point shot in college basketball? It's on par with the first primary, Bode Miller, Happy Gilmore, the 14th president, or anything else produced by the state of New Hampshire.
In all eight of Thursday and Friday's regional semi-final games, the team with the better three point percentage prevailed. Not surprisingly, the larger the discrepancy between three point percentages, the larger the margin of victory. The three #1 seeds that won comfortably all were hot from deep. They went as follows:
UCONN at a solid 37%, Louisville at a scorching 48%, and UNC at a Diane Lane-like 57%.
Pitt's inability to stretch Xavier's tight defense was key in the second half. The Panthers went 0-8 from three in the second half until the Snake Plisskenesque heave in the final minute by Levance Fields. After further review of Escape From LA (above link), is there any doubt this is how Danny Snyder and Vinny Cerrato evaluate talent? Steve Buscemi's weasel character is equally a mirror image to Cerrato as Arnold Schwarzenegger is when playing that Austrian bodybuilder in Pumping Iron.
I'm halfway to eating some crow for the Pitt Panthers' NCAA tourney run, but I'm not sweating yet. They've struggled more than any of the remaining 8 teams to date and are as likely a team to lose as any this weekend.
(EDIT: Hollinger's Friday night article did not inspire this post, but Simmons' stuff has inspired me to get a 12-inch double meat from Subway. Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki, green peppers, onions, yellow peppers, tomatoes. Boom. Outta here.)
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