Friday Night in the Garden

There's nothing like it.  There's nothing like a Friday Night in the Garden.

I've been fairly fortunate lately.  Over the past six seasons,  Georgetown has played four times on Friday Night, winning three of those games.

This is not one of those years.  Making matters worse is the first game tonight.

Syracuse is playing Connecticut in the first semi-final and for me, that's the worst possible match-up that the Big East Conference has to offer.  I can usually find a reason to root for one team or the other.  Not tonight.  I have to dig deep.  Calhoun is opposite the Orange sideline so it's really a no win.

But there is one real that trumps everything.  And that rule is never, ever, no matter what, root for the slime in Orange.  Never.

So because of the Boeheim rule, I'm stuck rooting for that cheating, rotting corpse Calhoun.  Man I feel dirty.  The bright side is that if they end up playing 5 games in 5 days I doubt they make it out of the first weekend of the tournament.

Making matters worse is that Orange Fan Boy Sean McDonough is doing play-by-play.  He would be insufferable if not for the excellent work of Jay Bilas and Bill Raftery.  Those guys are the best in the business.

I can't believe this game is going into OT.  They played six OT's and ESPN won't let you forget about it.

Well there is a God.  Syracuse lost.

Tonight is turning out to be a damn good night.  ND blew a huge lead and is now 0-4 all time in the semi-finals.  Mike Brey is such a great coach, pilling up COY award after COY award, yet he's only been past the first weekend of the tournament once in 11 years with zero regular season BE titles and zero BET titles.

I'm all in for Louisville in the Finals.

It's been a tough tournament for me as a fan but it has a chance to avoid total disaster.

Peace brah