Words cannot describe what I just listened to

Of course that's not going to stop me from trying. UConn just got smoked in their quarterfinal match up with the Mountaineers from West Virginia. Now the final score was 78-72 but that in no way reflects how poorly UConn played. West Virginia played so badly they would have struggled to beat a below average high school team.

There was a stretch in the second half where UConn had A.J. Price on the line with a chance to cut the lead to 4, down from its height of 13. Leading up to that point, West Virginia had a possession where it gathered 3 (!) offensive rebounds without getting a point, then a possession where it nabbed 2 offensive rebounds without scoring. After Price missed the free throw, WVU came down, missed another shot, got another offensive rebound, and then their player was fouled, stopping the Huskies' mini run. If you add that up, that was 6 consecutive missed shots by the Mountaineers without the Huskies getting a single rebound. You have to try to be that bad.

Now I don't mean to bang on college kids. I understand this is a bunch of 19 and 20 year olds trying their hardest, but when you are as physically gifted as they boys are, it all comes down to pure laziness to be that ineffective at rebounding. The officials played a large role in the game, completely annihilating the flow of the game by calling over 50 fouls combined on the two teams, but somehow the giants on West Virginia still managed to lift their arms overhead and grab the orange thing that was bobbing around, a level of coordination that far exceeded anything the Huskies were capable of today.

It should be noted that after struggling early this season, UConn ran off a string of 10 consecutive wins, albeit not overly impressive wins against for the most part sub-par opponents. However they were gutsy wins, and showed the kind of scrap you like to see on any sporting team. They have now dropped two out of their last three games against underwhelming competition and looked just awful in doing so. What happened? Well shortly before the 10 game winning streak, questionable character Jerome Dyson was suspended for possessing alcohol as a minor. He reportedly also failed a drug test and was suspended for over a month. Since he's come back, the team has lost whatever mojo they possessed throughout the month of February, and should now consider themselves lucky to advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament.