Rankings & Irrelevant Comments - week 5

Below is Week #5’s Hopefully Humorous Rankings. Boeheim is back.

Top 10

1.Kansas – KU’s hoops coach, Bill Self, said he was extremely embarrassed over the 3 fights that his team had with the Jayhawks’ football players earlier this fall. Wait a minute. There’s 85 guys on the football team and they couldn’t knockout a dozen basketball players in 3 rounds? I’d say the football coach is the one who should be embarrassed.

2. Kentucky - Back in 1988 when current Wildcats coach John Calipari was at UMASS, Rick Pitino made a donation to cover almost 10% of Coach Cal’s salary. Wonder if Pitino now thinks that money might have gone to better use. Like maybe to keep the mouth of Karen Sypher shut.

3. West Virginia – Devin Ebanks’ mom was a corrections officer at Rikers Island prison. This came in handy whenever young Devin was subjected to the razzing of “My dad can beat up your dad”. All he had to say was, “Heck, my mom can beat up your dad.”

4. Texas- When Damion Jones learned that the likelihood of him being chosen by an NBA team looked dim, he withdrew his name form last year’s draft. The Texas fans were elated. But was this really great news? How fantastic can you be if you weren’t even wanted by the Nets?

5.Villanova – Corey Stokes and Corey Fisher are Villanova’s version of Hollywood’s two Coreys – Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. There is, of course, one glaring difference – Haim and Feldman can’t act.

6.Syracuse – How do you lose to Lemoyne, but then blow out North Carolina? How do you marry a babe despite having a face that resembles and Idaho Spud? The answers to these and other questions can be found in the yet to be written book entitled, “Things only Jim Boeheim knows.”

7. Purdue – There’s a Bird playing college hoops in Indiana again – Purdue’s D.J. Byrd to be exact. The comparison might be a tad premature though. While Larry made countless jumpers from the baseline, D.J. seems to be spending his time on the sideline. Not by choice. But ‘cause that’s where the bench is.

8. Tennessee - With the entire starting line-up back, the Volunteers might make the Final 4, but that’s not all the Tennessee fans are hoping for. What they really want is for Coach Pearl to make it through the season without stripping on national television.

9. Washington – Quincy Pondexter was the Huskies most improved player in 2009. Quincy Pondexter was also the team’s most improved player in 2008. This begs the question: How much did Quincy Pondexter suck in 2007?

10. Duke – The Blue Devils used to be called the Blue & White. Now they just go with the blue because the white is obvious.

Take it easy,
Dave