I’m pretty sure everyone in Tucson right now is proud. Tonight Arizona fell to UConn, ending our tournament run at the Elite Eight. It was a good run, and the team shouldn’t feel any shame in losing. I personally feel that they should have gone for the two pointer and tied it to go into overtime instead of trying for the three to win it, but what can you do. Tonight was some of the best rebounding I’ve ever seen the team have. It was an odd night and the three pointers weren’t coming, but they made up for it by pushing through and getting points in the paint. We managed to hold up against Memphis and Texas. We kicked the supposedly oh-so-amazing 1 seed Duke’s ass, winning by 16 despite being down by 6 at the half. We just couldn’t pull it off today, but considering that the team only had 15 wins last season and didn’t even qualify for the tournament, and this season they have over 30 and made it to the Elite Eight, pretty damn good. And next year, if D-Will stays for his junior year, with the new recruits we have coming in…next year, that national title belong to Arizona. Bear Down Wildcats, until next year.

PS, as for the icon, I thought their play this year was pretty gangster, thus the icon. That is all.

I’m not completely sure what to say about last week. I’ll just sum it up right quick though.

Basketball. Once we swept the Washington schools I knew the southern California schools were going to be the real challenge, especially UCLA. I was expecting a tough game but a win against USC. That didn’t happen. It was an unnecessary loss. The entire game I kept thinking to myself ‘I have no clue who’s playing, but that’s not the Wildcats out there’. Unnecessary turnovers, missing shots that they normally have no issues with. If they had played more like themselves then it would have been a win. But it wasn’t. It was our first loss in 8 games. I shed a tear as I crumbled to the ground. Then came Saturday against UCLA. I ended up missing it on TV, since I was at Matsuri and then Direct TV is screwy and didn’t have the game on when it was supposed to be on. But we ended up losing badly. I thought it was more bad play, but then it was replayed last night. I had to watch House, so I only caught bits and pieces, but from what I saw it was a legitimate loss. We were playing well. Not as well as normal, but a lot better than at USC. UCLA was just brutal, they were playing defense like it was nobody’s business. So we dropped from rank 10 to 18. I kind of think it’s for the best, we weren’t ready for a top 10 ranking yet. We only played 3 ranked teams, only one of those in conference, and lost against all of them. We’re just not there yet. However, I have hope. UCLA has to go up to Washington this week, so I’m guessing (hoping really) that they’ll fall to Washington, possibly Washington State too. We’re at home against the Oregon schools. Undefeated at home thus far, no reason for that to change now. So we’ll hopefully be alone at the top of the Pac-10 after the last games of the regular season. Then we need to prove ourselves yet again and win the Pac-10 title. Then onto March Madness and just do as good as we can.

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