Saturday, March 24, 2007
Rutgers 53, Duke 52
Had a good feeling about this one. A nailbiter. Decided literally in the last 1/10th of second by two missed free-throws. But after beating the #2 team in the nation, UConn, why not defeat the #1 team, too? Why not come from 4 points down in the final minute? & why not hold Duke to its lowest score of the year? & why not beat a team you lost to by 40 points in December? & why not do it in North Carolina just down the road from the Duke campus? While I can't generate quite the antipathy toward the Duke women's team as I feel toward the men's team (or for UCLA), it's sweet.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson