30 March 2008Sports
David(son) and Goliath

In one of the most entertaining NCAA tournament games I can remember, upstart, tiny Davidson took monster Kansas to the wire and almost won the game with a last second shot. This is Davidson, a tiny school without much a basketball pedigree against one of the legendary schools of college hoops-Kansas-the university of Wilt Chamberlain and Danny Manning.

You got the sense watching the game that Davidson was overmatched. Kansas looked like they were going to tear the Wildcats limb from limb. Every time Kansas looked like they were going to pull away, Davidson would get a loose ball, play tight D and hold the Jayhawks to one shot, or hit a big three.

And Stephan Curry was simply amazing, a one man gang against a superior team. He'd been so fun to watch through the early games of the tourney. Against Kansas, he didn't exactly shoot well, only 9 for 25, but the shots he did hit were wicked, raining threes coming off screens and zipping through the trees in the lane on the way to the hoop. He just up one shot short.

It would have been great for Davidson to crash the party at the Final Four. Instead, we've got 4 number seeds. It would probably make for great games though.

You can watch the highlights of Kansas/Davidson on You Tube, at least until the NCAA and CBS discover that they are online.

Posted by andrew at March 30, 2008 09:39 PM


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