Rare College Basketball Comment

I do not often comment on college basketball, but today's game featuring #21 Marquette versus #23 Louisville deserves commenting on.

I turned the game on about midway through the first half, and Marquette was playing like absolute crap at home, and this was reflected in the score - they were down 18-2, and it looked like a blow-out of epic proportions was brewing.  I even logged on to Twitter and sent out a tweet that read, "Dear Marquette: Just an FYI, the game has started."

Now, I cannot say for certain whether the Marquette coaches, team, fans, or players actually saw my tweet, but from the moment I hit send something came over that team, and they began playing much better basketball.  How good?

Well, the final score of the game was Marquette over Louisville, 74-63.  The question I found myself asking at the end of the game was - is Marquette that good, or is Louisville that bad?  I mean, that is a 27 point differential that really shouldn't happen to two quality, evenly-matched teams.

Louisville, wave good bye to that top 25 ranking, and Marquette, I am sorry that I did not have more faith in your ability to trounce the Cardinals.