... I am not afraid to say I'm not sad to be escaping this site tomorrow.

It was already fairly short on truly great stories, and the chalky results yesterday made it even less compelling. Michigan State's interviews are in progress, and Pittsburgh, Washington State and Notre Dame will follow. All are fine teams, but from the outside none of the except for maybe Washington State are all that exciting.

Some of it has to do with style issues. Notre Dame is the only true up-tempo team of the bunch. Washington State qualifies as methodical. Michigan State and Pittsburgh just take a "There Will Be Blood" approach; tomorrow's game between the two could be a 54-51 type game by design.

It didn't help that the four games here yesterday were, quite frankly, painfully boring. Michigan State, Notre Dame and Pittsburgh were fully in control at halftime. Washington State simply couldn't miss in the second half against Winthrop, turning a tie game into a rout faster than you can say "First to 45 wins."

More a bit later on after the second set of afternoon games.

--- Patrick Stevens