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Due to work commitments, me not feeling that great, and my desperate need to lead that Yankees back to glory in Out of the Park Baseball, it’s been a quiet week here at Mid-Major Madness World Headquarters. I’m going to make it up to you.
I took to our NOW VERIFIED Twitter account this morning to ask for YOUR questions and I will do my best to answer them below. Today’s mailbag explores Stetson, Belmont, Monmouth (shouts to Marc Gump), and everyone’s favorite topic: mid-major at-large chances.
Extended thoughts: Louisville 77, Wake Forest 65
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No big lead in today. Tim Duncan walked and fouled out in ‘96.
Let’s hop right in. I think we have to start this post by talking about Samuell Williamson, who has easily (and justifiably) been the most heavily criticized Cardinal through the first two months of the season. That criticism reached an apex after last week’s game against Virginia Tech, where Williamson’s lackluster play (and effort, according to his head coach) resulted in him watching from the bench as Quinn Slazinski took his spot for all of the game’s most crucial moments.
Thursday evening Cardinal news and notes
Share this story NET Rankings Update: No. 24 (up 5 spots). The second-ranked U of L women’s basketball team is back in action tonight at 8 against Boston College. The silver lining here is that the rest of the year was fantastic. Just had to get the nastiness out of the way early on.
Happy 1-year anniversary to the greatest moment in local TV news history. pic.twitter.com/BxlIiZLVdC Mike Rutherford (@CardChronicle) January 14, 2021 Hoops Insight explores how Louisville can challenge for the ACC title this season. The Virginia women’s basketball team has joined Duke in opting out of the rest of the season due to health and safety concerns.
Tommy Lasorda, the colorful and cantankerous longtime manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers who led the team to four National League pennants and two World Series championships in the 1970s and ’80s, has died. He was 93.
Lasorda, who spent more than 70 years in the Dodgers organization, suffered a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest at home Thursday night and was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later, the team said in a statement on Friday.
“In a franchise that has celebrated such great legends of the game, no one who wore the uniform embodied the Dodger spirit as much as Tommy Lasorda,” Dodgers chief executive Stan Kasten said in a news release.