>Get ready to watch KU cut down the nets in a few weeks.
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>All 5 KU starters (plus one bench player) scored in double figures.
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>Get ready to weep, Craig...KU is projected to play Utah State in the 2nd round.

You are probably looking at the same ESPN bracketology I am. (http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology). Don't count on Utah State getting past Marquette. Not dissing Utah State but every team in the Big East is battle tested. This is the strongest conference in memory. They are projected to have 11 teams in the tournament.

I am pleased to see Wisconsin not only with a #4 seed but in what looks like a very weak regional. Then again, they got bumped from the Big 10 tournament by Penn State, 36-33. That is pathetic. Two teams of nuns could score more points than that. I will follow my usual pool strategy of picking all the Big 10 teams to be gone by the second round. Maybe Ohio State, but the rest of the conference is a joke.

Kansas is a candidate to win it. We agree on that.

Late in the season I became interested in Harvard, of all teams. They are the only Ivy League team that has not won the conference championship. I think they all operate under the same rules -- no scholarships and you have to be admitted like any other student. This was probably their best team, going 23-6. Unfortunately loss #6 was in a playoff for the conference title, by one point against Princeton yesterday. The Ivy League is one of those conferences that gets one slot and that's it. Somehow Tommy Amaker, the ex-Dookie, got this bunch of too short, too slow brainiacs to believe in themselves. (Northwestern had a shot at him a few years ago and somehow blew it by irritating his wife). You expect teams like Kansas, Duke, North Carolina, UConn, et al to be good every year. Every top high school player in the country is interested in them. When a team like Harvard or George Mason does well, that's worth mentioning.

The most recent basketball player who got my pulse going is a chick. I can use that word because she's only a junior in high school. Her name is Morgan Tuck and last weekend she led Bolingbrook to its third straight Illinois 4-A championship, the biggest schools. They beat Whitney Young -- a Chicago magnet school which is always good in basketball -- by one point in the semis, then wiped out Zion-Benton in the final. Morgan's older sister will be playing for Illinois next year and their point guard will be at Tennessee. Morgan is only a junior but has already committed to UConn. She was first team all state as a 14 year old freshman, quite a feat in a state that produces loads of top woman players, and hasn't let up yet.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/highschool/ct-spt-0306-prep-gbk-4a-state-final-20110305,0,6602809.story