Not a ton to say on another craptastic weekend.\u00a0 My favorite co-worker\/blogger from Paperlicious told me Friday “your blog is so down lately, you guys need to perk up.”\u00a0 First, thanks for reading!\u00a0 But after a weekend like this one, it’s really tough to fire up the mojo.\u00a0 First the Women’s team goes down to Drexel (hate) in the CAA semis on Saturday, although an NIT bid in the first year of the post-Dawn Evans era ain’t that bad at all.\u00a0 Then the baseball team goes and gets absolutely violated by UNCW in getting swept.<\/p>\n
Then today, when we even found it in our hearts to to pull for Drexel getting an at-large bid (love) in the interest of #2bids4CAA, the committee, which oddly had a western bias this year, went and left the CAA regular season champ Dragons out of the field.\u00a0 Yes, we feel bad for Drexel.\u00a0 And yes, the CAA is waaaayyyy better than the MAAC, and yes, Iona lost to Hofstra, whose level of suckitude was right on par with our very own Dukes this year.\u00a0 And yes, it just ridiculously typical of the committee to select Iona and turn all of us in mid-major land against each other.\u00a0 But really what killed Drexel is St. Bonaventure and Colorado stealing bids, not necessarily Iona, BYU, and USF getting them.\u00a0 So it is a little tough to get overly worked up.\u00a0 Oh, but wait, there’s more.\u00a0 Another thing to fire up the #CAAHoops crowd is VCU getting shipped to Portland to take on another mid-major in Wichita St.\u00a0 That is at least 2nd degree\u00a0Mid-on-Mid Crime by the committee, who had a Bonnie-and-Clyde type killing spree in this regard this year.\u00a0 VCU\/WSU was even topped by the New Mexico\/Long Beach St. matchup which was an all-time capital offense.<\/p>\n
That said, Wichita St. must be developing a\u00a0HATRED for\u00a0the CAA that rivals the way we feel about Delaware football, GMU hoops, and Judas Larranaga (Miami getting left out was at least some consolation after his backstabbing of the CAA and mid-majors over the last couple of weeks).\u00a0 The Shockers lost Bracket Busters and Sweet 16 games to Mason in 2006 and to VCU at home in Bracket Busters last year.\u00a0 Needless to say, a CAA team taking advantage of the Shockers has proven to be strong move lately, leading to even more mind-blowing actions!<\/p>\n