"South" and Stuff

With their 50-47 difficult road victory over IPFW, the Jackrabbit women seem to be finding their stride at perfect time. The most promising part of their win Monday night was their ability to win even though they put up one of their worst shooting nights of the year, shooting 33 percent. SDSU's strongest links in Jennie Sunnarborg and Katie Lingle combined for seven points on the night, but veterans Jill Young, Macie Michelson, and Jennifer Schuttloffel came through with big plays to pace the Jacks, ending the five-game win streak of the Mastodons. An ugly win will surely sit better than a pretty loss.

I was worried about this team when they lost to IPFW and Oakland at Frost Arena earlier in the year but avenging the those same losses on the road is reassuring. They'll head to Fargo with a chance to finish the season winning eight of their final nine conference games.

In listening to IPFW coach Chris Paul after the game, Link Here (Click on video on the right side of the page) it was interesting to hear him say that "South" is still chasing IPFW and that the Jacks finally had to respect going into Fort Wayne for a win. To an extent, he's right because IPFW is 18-8 this season but SDSU has the experience of winning in March. Frankly, IPFW does not. Paul hopes to see SDSU again and I hope the teams meet in Sioux Falls.

*For those of you looking for a "South" count by Paul, I had six. I'm pretty sure he had eight after the first meeting*

Another SuperFriends Team Is Created

I won't talk much NBA, but ESPN will pound this story into submission for the next three days, so I feel obligated. Carmelo Anthony finally was traded to the New York Knicks but so was the rest of the Denver Nuggets for an appropriate share of the Knicks heading to the Rockies. Yes, Anthony and Chauncey Billups will make an immediate impact but I'm not going to put them in the NBA Finals, simply because the East is good and the Knicks haven't proved they can compete with the Celtics (who must be rivals with the Knicks by law), Heat, Magic, etc.

Of course, no NBA trade would be complete without a David Kahn appearance. He gets his foot in by acquiring young talent Anthony Randolph and salary-cap lug Eddy Curry. Kahn will probably make two more trades before the deadline, just because he can. Thankfully, the Wolves traded Corey Brewer. He never excited me and Knicks fans can have him. Brewer comes with: one (1) awesome dunk per season and three (3) defensive stops per season. Use them wisely.

Leftovers

•  That was a ton of snow. 'Nuff said.

• Why will it take until June for the Twins to find out that they don't have anyone in the bullpen other than Morales, Capps, and maybe Nathan?

•  A very entertaining Daytona 500 with the two-car drafting and created some interesting pairings. NASCAR is likely going to try to change that setup because some of those crashes were pretty easy to see coming. Not to mention, a 20-year-old in his second career Cup race won.

• The NBA All-Star game was actually entertaining too. LeBron James could have had a quintuple-double and it wouldn't have mattered because that MVP award was going to Kobe Bryant. (Okay, you got me...I watch a fair share of the NBA. But, I've probably watched more NBA this year than I have in the last five years combined.)

• JaVale McGee had awesome dunks that were probably good enough to win the dunk contest, but there was no way he was going to beat the "Blake Show." (Blake, come on. Jump over the roof of the car! If he would have done that, we would have known if the Clipper Curse was real.)

• Don't even have a No. 1 in college basketball this week. Duke can have it for now, but you can't convince me they're the best team in college basketball.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading.