I hope you saw that Rutgers-Notre Dame play-in game. Holy yikes. What a great game! That was the spot I thought OU as a #11 should have been playing in. But how can I be pissed after seeing that magnificent basketball game?
Notre Dame now gets a No. 6 in Alabama. I would have to like Notre Dame based on what I saw from Alabama at the end of the season.
Meanwhile…OU plays St. Bonaventure on Sunday night in Norman with the opportunity to advance to the Elite 8 of the NIT.
Everything has a reason at the end of the day. If OU wins on Sunday, they’ll improve to 20-15 and need to win one more game to advance to Madison Square Garden. If Moj Gibson decides to stay, as he should so he could be a possible first team All-Big 12 player next season…Porter will have his top six players in line for next season with the three freshmen coming in who are all Top 75 in this recruiting class.
Now, as far as this NCAA Tournament goes…America from coast to coast needs this one to be special. As a country…we appear to be exhausted from Covid, the Jan. 6th Insurrection, and now the situation the world finds itself in with Putin.
Sports can sometimes be a great societal balm in momentous moments of history. Jesse Owens at the Olympics at Berlin. The 1980 U.S. men’s ice hockey team. Whitney Houston singing our national anthem at the Super Bowl after 9/11, etc.
This is one of those times for America as it seems evident to me our country could be at a tipping point if we’re not careful.
VA-Tech, Auburn, and Texas Tech are the teams I’m rooting for…and maybe even Notre Dame. And of course, Baylor and Kansas.
As a country, we need a great NCAA Tournament.
Let’s the games begin.