Pregaming for Judgement Week(end)

Hi all, hope my readers didn't miss me too much as I took a much needed day off to... well, not do anything really that important.  Other than watch every team I like get stomped into the dirt by double digits, of course.  I digress.  To the weekend pregame!


Interesting Matchups


Michigan at Minnesota-

Minnesota is on a general slide.  Michigan just suffered a tough home loss after a Wisconsin buzzer beater.  Both teams teeter on the brink of missing the NCAA tournament.  Who will prevail?  Personally, I've gotta think that Michigan has the edge here.  Even though the wolverines have been consistently mediocre throughout the entire season, they seem to be figuring some things out of late.  At least theyre going in the right direction.  Minnesota, on the other hand, has lost 6 of their last 7, dropping them to  8th place in the eleven-team Big 10 (I refuse to say "B1G" because I am not twelve years old.)  Who knows?  Maybe Michigan gets hot again and makes a run in the tournament.  Then again, maybe Evan Turner shows up and kills their dreams again.  I wouldn't be surprised either way.


St Johns at Villanova-

I told all my friends at the beginning of the year that St Johns would be back in a couple years, as their upcoming recruiting class makes John Calipari's group look like a middle school basketball team.  Little did I know they would be back this year.  If you're looking at quality of wins alone, St John's should be a number one overall seed in this postseason.  However, bad losses to the likes of St Bonaventure have relegated St Johns to the likes of a seed in the mid single digits.  Regardless of the regular season as a whole, no one can deny how hot the Johnnies are right now.  They followed up their last second upset of Pitt with an absolute beatdown of DePaul (side note: look for the blue demons to pick up another win this weekend at home against USF).  Now they go on the road to Philly to try and stay hot against the wildcats, who haven't been playing up to their potential of late.


Texas A&M at Baylor-

You know what they say about desperate teams... one more loss will all but eliminate Baylor from at large contention.  Texas A&M, meanwhile, is a team that has a tendency to drop games that make you think... huh?  They lost to who?  It's definitely a potent combination.  In case I'm not making this clear, I think Baylor is going to win.


Recommended Saturday Basketball Watching Schedule- As stated before, this schedule is centered around the "best" basketball games and matchups, not necessarily the highest ranked teams that are playing.

12-2:  Syracuse at Georgetown
2-4: BYU at SDST
4-6: Arizona at UCLA
6-8: Miss St at Tennessee
9-11: Texas A&M at Baylor


Predictions:
last week: 17/22

Saturday

Duke at Virginia Tech
Kansas at Oklahoma
BYU at San Diego State
Texas at Colorado
Seton Hall at Notre Dame
Arizona at UCLA
Syracuse at Georgetown
Florida at Kentucky
St Johns at Villanova
Texas A&M at Baylor
Vanderbilt at LSU
Mizzou at Kansas St
Idaho at Utah St
Temple at George Washington


Sunday

Indiana at Ohio St
Pittsburgh at Louisville
Purdue at Michigan St
Northwestern at Wisconsin
UConn at Cincinatti
Maryland at UNC