I think, however, Hawaii has a significant target on its back at the Bren Center tonight.

on another note, i have no idea why shariff is getting so many minutes. he’s pretty terrible.

Finally, somebody to communicate with.

I went to class that day.

Victorian Literature.

Mostly girls, and a smattering of guys who gave a rat’s ass about college basketball.

But there was this one guy, an outlier, somebody who clearly wasn’t an English major, told the class the damn score. I was livid. To my surprise, so was the professor, who I would never have guessed as a supporter. (There are a lot of hostile academics who loathe athletics. I was in a Science Fiction class when June Jones got into that near-fatal car accident, and two grad students were complaining about the excessive coverage on all the news outlets.) She got her BA and MA at Rutgers, and apparently was a Crimson Knights basketball fan. Anyway, she stood slackjawed at me, because it was practically the first thing I ever said spontaneously in class. She became my academic advisor.

That Romain Sato three at the buzzer to cut the lead to 40-33 at the half was the difference.

That 2001-2002 team, as Jackson Wheeler said last year on his radio show with Jeff Portnoy, would have been good enough to beat a whole host of teams from these past five or six seasons.

Butler.

Something is wrong with sport if Butler makes it back-to-back.

That George Mason team would have kicked their butts.

21-3.

I am so psyched for tomorrow’s game.

Monmouth lost today. They were the CollegeInsider Mid-Major #1 team.

That’s more potential votes for Hawaii. But, perhaps, it’s a blessing that Hawaii is unranked. No bullseye on their backs. No team is going to get pumped up to beat the unofficial #38 team in the land.

It sounds crazy, but maybe Mike Thomas and Quincy Smith are the most important players on the team. They’re the two consistents during this plague of injuries, and god knows what. (I think Fleming is keeping himself healthy for the next team.)

UC-Santa Barbara has the Big West’s best non-conference win: at Washington. I guess that’s why they’re only seven places behind Hawaii, despite having a sub-.500 record.

There doesn’t seem to be a truly elite team this season. Look at Maryland, losing to Minnesota, who was winless in the Big Ten. The Terrapins are the 6th best team in Division I?

Hawaii can win a first round game if they only get the opportunity to do so.

C’mon, guys. I don’t want to be retired when this finally happens.

That 2002 Xavier game. The Musketeers GOT ALL THE CALLS.

That was the difference.

I like how Quincy’s first comment to the sideline reporter during the post-game interview was about Sai’s three.

Did Jankovic blow-off the media?

That is your interview subject.

Hawaii goes for its legit twentieth win on Saturday.

I’m confident.

I think they’re better.