I was going to write a pregame analysis of this game, and then I decided to go drink a bunch of green beer instead for St. Patrick's Day. Something has to give, and when the competition is writing versus green beer, the latter wins every time.
In lieu of an original post, I want to share an email from a reader who happens to be an Arizona fan. Sure, it has nothing to do with Creighton or Rhode Island, and he does take some veiled shots at some teams near and dear to us, but it made me laugh, and that's good enough for me.
"I'm already sick and tired of Vitale's big, flapping maw repeating again and again how Az. State defeated Arizona twice in the regular season and yet Az. State didn't make it. And you know Vitale. He practically spits on your TV glass expounding on this. By his criteria, Wash. St. shouldn't be in either as Arizona defeated them twice. Nobody mentions this. Those were two big wins.
Did you hear Vitale when he stuck his nose up Bob Knight's ass and browned him? I was actually embarrassed. Really. So was Knight. He said, I think if you took his mike away, he'd have a spare. Good Shot. I doubt that you could brown nose Knight and make a buddy. My feeling is that he thinks that Vitale is a fucking moron with a mouth the size of a leaky old cow's ass and with about as much value pouring out of it.
Still, despite it All, is this week fun or what?"
My comments: Indeed it is fun, buddy. And it would be even more fun if you'd take your own advice and stop brown nosing the big conference teams. I respectfully disagree that your Arizona 'Cats belong -- Illinois State or Dayton should be there instead -- but that was funny stuff. Especially the leaky cow's ass line -- I'm totally going to borrow that and I'm just letting you know in advance. You bet.
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PREDICTION: 11,000 fans, which will be the most for any NIT First Round game. 9,000 of them will be upset when they realize they can't buy beer. All of them will be happy when the Jays win.
JAYS 85, Rhode Island 73
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