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Not that Mississippi State is incredible or anything, but they’re hot right now and everyone needs a big upset in their bracket.  Sure, they wouldn’t have made it into the tourney as an at-large bid, but they won the SEC Tournament by rattling off four straight victories, upsetting LSU and Tennessee in the process.  Those SEC Tourney wins came on the heels of back-to-back W’s to end the regular season, against Ole Miss and Florida; that’s six straight victories, in case you’re keeping score at home.  What does that mean?  It means that people are going to be picking MSU to beat Washington in the first round, and their reasoning is justifiable.

Of course, you can’t overlook the fact that MSU will be traveling over 2000 miles away from home to play the Dawgs, or that the matchup in Portland will essentially be a UW home game, but how often does that stop anyone?  Mississippi State will benefit from the “what have you done for me lately” mentality and garner a ton of attention over the next week.  They may not have started the year off well, but they’re a streaky team and are currently on a hot streak (of their 23 total wins, 16 have come during three separate streaks of 5, 5, and 6 wins).  Let the debate begin.

Just finished watching the Duke-FSU game for the ACC Championship.  I’ve come to the conclusion that Jon Scheyer is somehow related to Manu Ginobili, who as I’ve stated before is the Devil.  Scheyer has been around for like 15 years and he’s Duke’s token white boy that just rubs you the wrong way.  Ever since the Laettner days, Duke has had one of those guys that just seems to garner everyone’s ire.  Scheyer is now that guy. 

That is all.

Where have you gone?

I was sitting in a bar last night watching Sportscenter when all of a sudden Steve Lavin popped up on screen.  I couldn’t hear what he was saying, since the sound was off, but I imagine it was a plea to all viewers to be on the lookout for his hair.  Steve Lavin’s trademark slicked-back hair had disappeared, and in its place was an imposter, a poofy, volumized center-parted mop of a toupee that just didn’t look right.

Panic set in.  I, personally, felt that it was my mission to find Lavin’s mousse-gelled ‘do.  I looked around.  I couldn’t understand why more of my fellow patrons weren’t moved to action.  This is Steve Lavin, for God’s sake!  The only man at ESPN who cares about us, Pac-10 basketball fans.  If you’re a fan of a Pac-10 school, Steve Lavin is your guy, your leader.  And his hair is missing.  And it’s a tragedy.

Fire ESPN’s stylists, search high and low, do what we need to do to make things right with the world once again.  Together, we can help Steve Lavin get his hair back.  Let’s do this.