Friday Recap

Do I even have to? What a boring night of basketball. Even Davidson’s win was a yawner for the last 10 minutes. Well, here goes:

Davidson 73 — Wisconsin 56

Did this feel like an upset at any point in the game? Both teams hit their shots early, and then Wisconsin stopped hitting theirs, and that was it. And in case you weren’t swayed by the 70 points he dropped last weekend, Stephen Curry added 33 more, including a few more brilliant buckets: first, the pump-fake three in transition followed by the ridiculous reverse layup and one.

The best part about these two plays? When you watch them back-to-back, you realize on the layup that Curry slowed down for a second to make Michael Flowers think he was going to spot up for another three before blowing by him. Honestly, Curry can drop in 50 on Kansas and I wouldn’t be surprised.

Texas 82 — Stanford 62

I knew I shouldn’t have picked the Cardinal. Didn’t get to see much of this one, but I know Stanford cut it to one with about 10 minutes left and then was dominated. Memphis-Texas should be an excellent Regional Final.

Kansas 72 — Villanova 57

There’s just something about this Kansas team that, even when they’re shredding another team as they shredded Nova in the first half, I can’t buy into. They shot close to 80 percent for the game’s first 10 minutes, threw alley-oops to three different players, played lockdown defense, and yet, I don’t get a championship feeling from them. This is the highly subjective way of saying that while they’re probably the most talented team in the nation, I think they’re losing in the next 10 days.

Memphis 92 — Michigan State 74

Amid the myriad ways I envisioned this game going, Memphis up 30 at the half was not one of them. It is true that everyone has forgotten that the Tigers have only lost one game this season, that they were only seriously challenged in one other game, and that when they hit their shots, they’re probably unbeatable. It will be interesting to see if their taller guards can cause the same kind of havoc in the Longhorns’ backcourt Sunday.