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Well the time is finally upon us. The regular season is over and the bowl season is just around the corner. But before that, the individual performance awards will be given out. The most prestigious of the awards, the Heisman Trophy, will be given out on Monday. I have followed the performances of many of the best college football players and have come to a decision on who should receive the Heisman Trophy.
The University of Washington Men’s basketball team has started its season in an impressive fashion. With the losses of Nate Robinson (New York Knicks), Tre Simmons, and Will Conroy many believed this team would not return to the Sweet 16 or even March Madness for that matter. But with early season victories, and great play from freshmen: Jon Brockman, Justin Dentmon, and Artem Wallace, the nay-sayers have finally given the UW team credit. The Husky team is ranked 13th in the nation after last night’s impressive victory over the 6th ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs. With the win the Huskies improved to 7-0. While most would suspect Senior, Brandon Roy, to be the leading scorer for the Huskies it was a full team effort that stopped Adam Morrison and the rest of the Bulldogs in the second half. I can bore you with all the stats, but the hustle that this Husky team has shown in its first seven games is what has me in awe.
While we are all marveling in the great starts of Florida and Colorado State and Indiana State, one unbeaten has been forgotten.
True, this team hasn’t beaten anyone. No seriously, they haven’t beaten anyone. They haven’t even beaten a Nicholls State or an Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne. And true, it won’t beat anyone until at least January 11, if it ever does beat anyone. But for the beleaguered Baylor men’s basketball program, it can at least brag about one thing: its undefeated mark.
I know that the BCS is not what everyone wants or likes. I have created another system that may be more welcomed. It was just for fun. If it offends you or your team, it wasn’t meant to.
by Trevor Freeman
Well it took years of debate, but finally “Dirty December” has come to fruition. Perhaps it was the realization that massive amounts of money were being left on the table (i.e. $300 million dollar BCS contract with Fox versus $6 billion dollar NCAA Tournament package). However, the reasons don’t matter. To the rejoice of college football fans and the gambling public, let’s breakdown our first 16-team national title tournament.
The Duke Blue Devils were college basketball’s concensus number one overall team in the preseason, and at the looks of things this ranking is not changing anytime soon. When a University has a reputation that Duke has and a coach as respected as Coach Krzyzewski recruits usually find you. This years Duke recruiting class was one of a kind.
The season is coming to a close and the Heisman hype is growing with each passing day. There is some movement in the Heisman Watch and it’s almost time for my season ending special edition article. This should be fun.
The age of the BCS lottery machine is upon us. The difference between winning and losing has a lot more to do with money than it does with the score. It’s hard to know what drives a good team anymore; the money or the winning.
It wasn’t too long ago the Syracuse Orange (formally known as the Orangemen) were Champions of College Basketball. Led by a squad that included stars such as Carmelo Anthony (now of the NBA’s Denver Nuggets), fan-favorite Gerry McNamara, Craig Forth, and the flashy dunks of Hakim Warrick, the Orange always seemed to be in the middle of the National Championship mix. Since then, players such as Anthony have gone pro and others have graduated, leaving only a few players left from that 2003 National Championship team. Although some highly recruited freshmen have been brought in the past few years by head coach Jim Boeheim (currently enduring his 30th season as head coach) these young “stars” have yet to step up as did ‘Melo and G-Mac in their respective freshman years. The team as a whole has suffered thus far.
Wait a minute! There’s a Pac-10 Championship game?? No, not really, but USC play UCLA in one of the biggest games of the year, which effectively decides the Pac-10. Oh, and the other game’s a small southern rivalry pitting Georgia against LSU in the Dome in Atlanta. Should be quite a weekend, shouldn’t it?