Jimmy V Classic

Ok well it's time for me to get my first look at Satan's Army, I mean Syracuse, this season. It's a match-up of top ten teams as they take on Michigan State. I've seen State a few times and they aren't exactly clicking just yet but I'm sure that will fix itself as the season rolls on. Hopefully tonight.

Here are my thoughts:

**I didn't know Fab Melo was a starter. I should have seen him at the Capital Classic at AU in April but he was a no-show.

**Boeheim is about to kill Jardine for not sliding over in the zone. I wish the cameras hadn't had left him. Jimmy called a timeout and was using some of the most colorful words available right in Scoop's grill.

**State is making a bunch of typical mistakes against this zone - sloppy passes around the perimeter, bad 3's, not getting it to the foul line.

**We made it almost an entire 7 minutes into this game before Vitale had to start talking about Duke. He shouldn't still have this job. It's embarrassing.

**MSU should consider fouling Jackson near the hoop. He's pretty good at dunking and not so good at shooting free throws.

**I"m officially bored with this game. I know what is going to happen and I hate it.

**7-0 run for the Spartans and it's down to 4.

**Cuse up 9 at the half. A lot of their scores are coming off of bad shots by State. I'll see this game through but I'm not exactly thrilled about where I think it's headed.

**It's down to 3 at the under 12 minute TV timeout. MSU is doing a much better job of forcing Cuse to take jumpers. Free throws and turnovers are still killing Sparty though.

**Fab Melo sucks. The kid from Senegal is much more of a handful right now.

**You know I watched MSU in the Maui Invitational and I thought they played poorly. They almost lost to Chaminade in the first round - a D2 school. Well maybe they just aren't that great. They are getting a lot of love from last year's Final Four run but that was just 5 games. There's a reason they were a 5 seed in the tournament.

**Nice to see Derrick Coleman all dressed up with a front row seat. I'm pretty sure he filed for bankruptcy within the last year. What a great spokesman for the University.

**Syracuse has some of the fattest fans in College Basketball. I'm guessing it's a direct result of having absolutely nothing to do in Syracuse besides eating large quantities of high fructose corn syrup.

**Syracuse doesn't leave the state of NY until Jan 17, 2011. Pathetic.

**I just want to thank MSU for beating Maryland in last year's 2nd Round. A win by the Terps in that game and it could have been disastrous. I mean Northern Iowa and Tennessee were the path to the Final Four. Talk about a scary situation.

Peace brah