Wins/Losses

"Sports Sunday" did not end up quite as successful as hoped. Spending 10 hours at the MCI Center started out swimmingly...the participants finding each other by chance on the metro, what were supposed to be nose-bleed tickets actually being $150 lower-level tickets, the promise of buy 1 get 1 free beers with our ticket stubs...And when we found the 'Zards had curiously putting my boy on the cover of their own program, it seemed like a sign that they knew they couldn't handle us. Unfortunately, while we enjoyed the games and had a delightful little interlude in between, the winning stopped there.

Wins

• Great seats
• Free beers

Losses

• Sixers, pathetically, to the Wizards
• Georgetown's shooting skils and the game to WVU
• 1 cell phone
• Chance for a snow day

The"Blizzard of '06" was a big dud here below the Mason-Dixon line. (Not that you'd know it from the school closings today and general snow frenzy. 9" is a nice chunk of precip, is it that much to ask for it to come on a Sunday night?) None of those losses on their own would have been that devastating, but back to back, when the end of the last game meant Monday morning was only a few hours away, made them rough.

Georgetown will bounce back. They stuck with a tough team and just went completely cold in the end (though I personally would have held off on the 3s when we were only down by a few with half the half left and they clearly weren't falling). The Sixers, on the other hand, are the picture of mediocrity. As always, on paper they look competitive but in person they could be an intramural team. Iverson usually the first one to cheer on his teammates, but you could see how frustrated he was and that he was isolating himself in anger from the others who can't run a play or defend or even hold onto the ball. It's like there's a complete disconnect from each positive aspect of the team. Case in point: the box score shows Webber's having a 20 and 10-type season, but you see him hobbling down the court with his 80-year-old knees and it seems like he's disrupting the flow of things even if he has 24 points. It's not like this all is a big surprise, but I think I keep coming back to it because it's clear things aren't working, but it also seems like there's no solution. Even trading Iverson...I don't see them getting equal value for him, so they'd basically be left with the same mediocre team and no ability whatsoever to sell tickets. Ugh. There's always next season...or the Hoyas (hopefully).