U! C! O! N! N!

The UConn men pushed their way into the final eight of the NCAA tournament by beating a stubborn Purdue team. The game followed a very definite pattern of UConn leaping to a double digit lead then letting up on their defensive intensity and allowing the Boilermakers to claw back into the game. My observations of the game, in no particular order, are as follows:

1. The officials, whether consciously or not, are racist. When given the opportunity to whistle a white guy or a black guy for a foul, the black guy got hosed every time.

2. The officials were too confused on exactly which category Gavin Edwards fell into, so they whistled him for fouls constantly to keep him off the floor and have a very clear white/black option when they blew the whistle.

3. CBS was threatening someone's kitten after the teams sprinted through a brisk first half in under 30 minutes. The first 5 minutes of the second half took nearly 15 minutes.

4. I made all those numbers up but it sure felt like it!

5. Those Boilermaker uniforms are some kind of awful. That's not actually my observation but it warrants mentioning.

6. Chris Kramer sure keeps his hair nicely coiffed for a basketball player.