Saint Peter's Rules on National Peacock Day

The feel good story of the 2022 NCAA Basketball Tournament continues Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia.  Just a short time ago, the #15 seed Saint Peter's Peacocks knocked off the #3 seed Purdue Boilermakers 67-64 in a sweet sixteen game in Philadelphia.  Saint Peter's becomes the first #15 seed to ever reach the elite eight in the Men's tournament.

The Peacocks were led by Daryl Banks III with 14 points and Clarence Rupert with 11.  The Boilermakers top scorers were Trevion Williams with 16.

Saint Peter's is now 22-11 and will face 8 seed, basketball blueblood North Carolina late Sunday afternoon.  The Boilermakers end their season at 29-8.

Happy New Year!

As the title of this post indicates, I really hope that you and the ones you love have a Happy New Year.  It was a good one, except for the hoosier neighbors down the street waking everyone up with fireworks at midnight.  

You may have noticed this is written on January 2nd, mainly because I spent New Year's Day sampling the Smorgasbord of NCAA football bowl games.

I also learned, again, that if it's New Year's Day the Big 10 (or maybe it's the Big 12 or possibly the Big 14) will choke big time.  The Big Ten went a whopping one and four.  The only winner in the group was Northwestern which finally won a bowl game for the first time since 1949.  The Big Ten losers list includes Nebraska, Michigan, Purdue and Wisconsin.  At the same time the SEC conference played three games yesterday winning two of them (South Carolina in the Outback Bowl and Georgia in the Capital One Bowl).

And a final thought on the Bowl games yesterday; Northern Illinois had no business playing in the Orange Bowl.  Florida State had their way with the NIU in a 31-10 romp.  My guess is Louisville of the Big East will  suffer a similar fate this evening in the Sugar Bowl when they run into the Florida at the Super Dome.  For the record I forecast a 31-14 Florida win.