Overtime Thoughts - 2/21

Thanks to everyone who attempted to predict the score for today's Louisville/Cincinnati game. We will be having that contest for the remainder of the season. No one got it right. Co-host Michael Vanover got one team's score right and was one off on the other one's. See, we know what we're talking about here.

#7 Louisville was up to the test on the road today and defeated Cincinnati 72-63. The game knocks UC to 0-8 against top 25 teams as their at-large bid hopes are falling away. They are going to have to get a marquee win in order to get in. Louisville goes to 21-5 on the year and 12-2 in the Big East. Terrence Williams led all scorers with 20 points.

Kentucky swept the season series against Tennessee today with a 77-58 win over the Vols. Tennessee simply was no match against the Cats today. From the opening tip, it just seemed like they had absolutely no idea what they were doing. UK's team...wait, I mean Jodie Meeks was held 3-less for the first time this season.

Around the Big East:
#1 UCONN handled South Florida 64-50
#4 Pitt beat Depaul 80-61
#11 Marquette held off Georgetown 78-72
Notre Dame defeated Providence 103-84

Around the top 25:
Texas pulled off a monster upset over #2 Oklahoma 73-68
Maryland came back from 16 down and pulled off a huge upset over #3 North Carolina 88-85 in OT
#6 Memphis held off UTEP 70-63
#10 Missouri defeated Colorado 66-53
Washington State stunned #15 UCLA 82-81 in a thriller.
#18 Kansas beat Nebraska 70-53
#19 Washington defeated USC 60-51
#20 Gonzaga crushed Pepperdine 92-58
#21 Purdue defeated rival Indiana 81-67
#22 Butler beat Davidson 75-63 in a Bracketbuster game. That one probably ended Davidson's at-large bid possibilities.
St. Mary's knocked off #23 Utah State 75-64
#24 LSU beat Auburn 79-72

Due to #1 UCONN's loss to Pitt, #2 Oklahoma's loss to Texas, and #3 UNC's loss to Maryland, Pitt will most likely move to #1 for the second time this season. What happened to all this talk about the ACC's top 3 teams being better than the Big East's top 3? My guess is that the top 6 next week will be Pitt, UCONN, Oklahoma, Memphis, UNC, Louisville. That seems pretty Big East heavy.

Your #17 Louisville baseball team dropped their 2nd game of a 3-game series with #11 Florida 10-4 earlier today. They will try to salvage the 3rd game tomorrow at 12 PM. Audio can be heard on uoflsports.com.

The #1 wide receiver in the upcoming NFL draft, Michael Crabtree, suffered a stress fracture in his left foot that will force him to sit out 6-10 weeks and will not be able to participate in any pre-draft workouts.

Mountain West Conference commissioner Craig Thompson is on a mission to show how the BCS is unfair in that the MWC champion does not get an auto bid to a BCS bowl game, but the 6 BCS conference champs do. He is working on a proposal to change the current system. I, for one, think the Mountain West champ deserves the exact amount of respect and credit as other BCS conference champions. Vote in our poll and tell us what you think!

Arizona QB Kurt Warner is leaning towards coming back next year after leading the Cardinals to the Super Bowl last season.

There are a lot of mixed feelings on what should be done about steroid users in baseball among you all who voted in the poll. But a 1-year ban ended up getting the most support with 37% of the vote.

Keep up the comments guys!