West coast basketball

I've got a much longer post brewing on the newest strain of Duke-hating (i.e. cheering after a Duke loss in stadiums where neither Duke nor UNC are playing), but in the interim I wanted to make two basketball related comments:

1. People are making way too much about the VCU win. Yeah, they're good, but Duke is bad. We had no athletic talent on the team this year (save for Gerald "The Hammer" Henderson). Every victory by Mason last year was more surprising than VCU beating Duke. They beat UNC and UConn... those are monster teams. And now they are forgotten by everyone who isn't named Huan or Tyler.
   
2. I'm coming back to the East Coast for the first tournament weekend next year. Games start out here at 9am, which is terrible, but it's more terrible that they're over with by 9:0pm. The beauty of the East Coast is that when basketball is done you have one more drink and then go home. Out here you have a gaping hole in the rest of your evening. Plus, I'm getting too old to start drinking at 9am. Noon is fine. But 9am is harsh.