Friday's the big day. If the Hogs want to prove Vitale, Phelps and Packer are full of it (and they are) the best way to do so is to win. Blow USC out. Pink Floyd is a vastly over-rated Coach. Now, that doesn't mean he isn't capable of out coaching us, but I doubt that USC has the size to match up with the Hogs frontline. Go Hogs!

When contacted by the Demozette, Dookie V quickly backed away from his earlier comments about the Hogs making it into the NCAA tournament being an "outrage". Typical of a blowhard. Diclie's darling, Drexel got beat in the NIT tonight by the way. The Hogs should have a Nolan-size chip on their shoulders by the time the game rolls around with all the self-appointed experts bashing them for getting into the field.

Dick Vitale is a Jackass! The "Dookie V." nickname put on him fits for his love of Coach K and all things Duke (yuck!). His man crushes on Slick Rick Pitino and John Calamary are enough to make a person want to throw up. For this blowhard carnival barker to say that our Hogs don't belong in the Big Dance shows his ignorance of SEC basketball and really any basketball outside the Big East, ACC and the wrestling matches that pass for roundball in the Big 10. If he and Digger Phelps could coach a lick they would still be doing so.

Bobby Knight's whining because Vitale isn't in the basketball Hall of Fame is equally disgusting. Knight only wants him there because Vitale has been shilling for Knight for years. Dookie V always has an excuse for his buddy's latest psycho behavior whether it's throwing a chair across the floor or verbally assaulting the President of Texas Tech. What a phony Vitale is. It is only fitting that he is pitching fertilizer in a full page ad in today's USA Today.

If he really wants to find a school that doesn't deserve to be in the field, he should look no further than Stanford or Texas Tech. I know the Hogs lost to TT early in the season, but look at the Hogs' RPI and strength of schedule compared to some of the others. Dookie's darling Drexel had a schedule ranked #131 compared to the Hogs #10. Let them play in the SEC and see if they could be 24-8. No Way!!!

All good things come to an end, and so it was with the Hogs SEC tourney run with the loss to Florida today. Playing 4 games in as many days is tough enough, but to have to knock off the National Champs, who hadn't been extended in the previous 2 games....It was just too much to ask. So it's on to Spokane, WA for a date with USC. We owe them one, or actually a couple. Go Hogs, it was still a productive week.

If this team plays like they did the first 3 days, the Hogs will have a chance to move in to a 2nd round game with ....TEXAS. Better to play them in Spokane than Austin, like earlier in the season. For this team to wake up as late as they did, a lot was accomplished in a short time.

Give Stan heath another year, idf he doesn't win BIG next year.....

The Hogs are in! The NCAA Tournament, I mean. Win or lose tomorrow vs Florida, there is no way the Hogs will not be selected for the field of 65. That was some defensive performance today, especially in the 2nd half. The defense was stifling. Rhodes and Gordon of MissStake couldn't throw it in the ocean, and those two are most of their offense.

Tomorrow, Go Hogs in the SEC Championship game, but win or lose the ticket to the Big Dance has been punched.

What with all the talk about Houston Nutt and his near-miss in the plane the other day (Houston Nutt and objects flying through the air just don't mix, doncha know?), the Hog Roundballers and their 11th hour attempt to get in the NCAA tournament has been overshadowed.

Steven Hill must not be superstitious or he wouldn't have cut his hair with a 2 game winning streak on the line. The first time the Hogs have won 2 in a row in SEC play. I think the pony tail looked better, myself. Oh well, it's his hair.

Anyway, in my opinion, we must win 3 games in the SEC/T to get in, 2 might do it, but don't hold your breath. USC and Vandy are winnable games, don't know who would be next, but all games are losable if the wrong team shows up.

Will he or won't he? Stan Heath I mean. Will he and the Razorback BBall team win at least 3 games in the SEC tournament this week to get into the NCAA's? I figure that's what it will take and that might not be enough. Word on the hill is that Heath must get his team in the "Big Dance" to save his job. I don't know for sure that is right, but suspect it is. The silence was deafening from the administration when asked to comment on Stan's status a week or so ago.