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Pastimes : 2010 NCAA College Basketball March Madness -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (4)	3/12/2010 12:03:57 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358

I always marvel at how little UConn in nowheresville became such a powerhouse in basketball. For sure Gino had to be an amazing coach to get them to where they are, but he now does have the luxury of kids dying to go to UConn. Either that or Tennessee. Tuesday we had our March Madness for my tenth grader's league. We had only one loss for the entire season, by a mere three points because that team had two tall former travel team kids on it where the coach/father played them almost the entire game. He did the same thing in March Madness (so I told the guy to his face he was cheating) so we lost again to them, but, fortunately (or not) it was double elimination over two days. So we face a team in the loser's bracket whose only season win was an amazing upset in the game before ours. I have one kid out with a strained ligament, another (really good) kid home sick with the flu, leaving me six. Of those, both my son and another football player had just finished a two-hour grueling lower body football off-season workout doing stairs and such and couldn't feel their legs. To win it all, we had to play 105 minutes of basketball in a row. Anyhow, we are quickly up by 18 with 10 minutes left in a 20 minute game. Time to rest my son who had most of our points (he used to be on the Freshman team but didn't try out this year to concentrate on football and baseball). I basically tell the kids to save their energy, be good sports, have fun, etc. You guessed it. We lost. In a way it was humorous. Kids that never made a three all year were swishing them. They literally threw them over their shoulder and the ball went it. Our kids were still taking it easy figuring they would win anyhow. Nope. I mention this because a) I admit, I'm pissed about it, but, also b) this is precisely why Gino has a rigorous philosophy that if you are up by 20 at the half, you better be up by 40 when the game ends. You never ever relax. You never ever let yourself relax. And that's why UConn blows teams out, and why you have to want to blow teams out to be really good. I can't believe I didn't enforce that "rule". - Jeff