Could be worse. Could be a LOT worse. Still, to all accounts, Richmond is better than a 12 – more fruit of what some are calling the worst field picking in the shot clock era – and so Vegas has this one as a draw, and once again Vandy is the fashionable pick to go down in the first round. I can’t really kick about that after last year. Or 2008. Like it or not, we have a reputation as choke artists in March, thanks to a sub-.500 record in the SEC tournament and 1-11 in season finales under Stallings – and two first-round exists in 3 years as a freakin’ 4 seed.
It’s down to four things: is Andre Walker healthy, is John Jenkins healthy, is John taking good shots, and does everybody show up. This has largely meant “Jeffrey Taylor” but his explosive performance in the SECT suggests that maybe he’s finally flipped the switch.
One thing’s for sure: unless we cut down the nets in Houston, I am going to wake up three weeks from tomorrow wishing it was Midnight Madness already.