5. mike and mike - golic and greenberg are the premier sports radio team and are syndicated in markets all over the country. so what could they do to gain more publicity? why, do a commercial for domino's, of course! in a commercial highlighted by nerds trying to speak in bad new york accents, mg squared provide the voiceover for domino's brooklyn style pizza. i’m not sure why domino’s wouldn’t just hire a normal voiceover guy to do their commercials. Maybe they brokered a deal to pay golic in cinnastix. no word on how dana jacobsen feels about the commercial, but she's probably just glad they aren't promoting jerusalem style pizza.
4. mike dunleavy - between friday and sunday, dunleavy scored 72 points and his team notched two wins. when i heard this, i assumed they had split four games, with a doubleheader scheduled somewhere in there. the truth is dunleavy tied his career high in consecutive games, defeating the raptors and bucks. averaging just under a point per minute and shooting 67% from behind the arc, dunleavy has led the pacers to 2 1/2 games behind the eastern playoff logjam. the pacers upcoming road trip (houston, san an, cleveland) will go a long way in determining their fate. dunleavy may have to put up 36 in each of those games as well. it might help if every other pacer scores 36, too.
3. kobe bryant - in a very competitive, very physical game, the lakers defeated the mavs 108-104. dirk nowitzki hit a three in the waning seconds to send the game to overtime and jason kidd had an opportunity to tie it in the extra session, but came up short on a free throw. i'm not saying the kidd trade was a bad idea, but devin harris does shoot a higher percentage from the line. the real story was kobe putting the game on his shoulders and scoring 52 points, including converting seventeen straight free throws. on the anniversary of wilt chamberlain's 100 point game, announcer jeff van gundy said it best: "dallas should go box and one. put the box on kobe and the one on everyone else."
2. arkansas - analysts always talk about a hangover effect after a team scored a big win. i think it's very obvious that vanderbilt needs to drink a lot of water and take a nap. after dispatching tennessee, vandy was no match for the razorbacks. arkansas capitalized on vanderbilt talking a timeout with 7.3 seconds remaining - a timeout the commodores didn't have. senior sonny weems led the way with 20 points and the victory brings arkansas to 8-6 in the sec. this sets up a big matchup against ole miss, two teams desperately in need of a win to bolster their tournament resume. or, they could just do what i do and lie on their resumes. no one checks those things out.
1. cornell university - for the first time since 1988, the ivy league will not be represented by penn or princeton as the big red locked up the conference with a win over harvard. cornell is riding a 14-game winning streak and boasts seven players who score at least seven points. their nerdy statistician would be quick to note that the deviation among these players is 2.93, if that means anything to you. the ivy league is the only one that awards its ncaa bid based on the regular season, which makes cornell the first team in the field of 65. so even if they don't make it out of the first round, they can say they've been in the tournament for two and a half weeks. unless a team makes the final four, they can't top that.
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