bullets13

either your team was invalid for some reason (not every roster spot filled), or it just hasnt added it to your main total yet for some reason

Let's get it started!

I'm with you, but i also agree with La Russa... Towles is setting himself up to get smashed.

There's a lot of talk that he might. He said he was going to think "long and hard" about his decision. If he comes back, Texas should be the preseason #1 at the start of next season.

no shock here.

He might get drafted due to his size alone, but is anyone really going to fall all over themselves to draft a guy who's 7 feet tall but only averaged 8 points and 6 rebounds on a COLLEGE squad? Hopefully he'll decide to give A&M another year, improve his numbers, and reevaluate things at the end of next season.

A bust? I doubt it. Now, I don't see him coming into the league and averaging 20/10 or anything, but he'll find a spot on a team and be a decent contributor. As for Collison, i have a feeling you're probably right.

These two aren't stupid for going pro, but it amazes me the amount of kids out there who leave after their freshman or sophomore year that have absolutely no shot at getting drafted.

UCLA lost in the Final Four and now it looks like they'll lose two players who got them there. The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday that Kevin Love and Darren Collison have both decided to make themselves available for June's NBA draft. Citing sources close to the players, the newspaper said that Love and Collison told coach Ben Howland of their decisions in separate meetings. Ford: Who's In, Who's Out Underclassmen will transform the 2008 NBA draft. Chad Ford takes a look at who's going, who's staying and who's on the fence. Story The newspaper reported that the two will hire agents, making them ineligible to return to the Bruins next season. But Love's mother told The (Portland) Oregonian that Love has yet to make that decision. She told the newspaper that her son planned to travel home to Lake Oswego, Ore. on Wednesday to spend time with his family and discuss his options. "The report is wrong because he hasn't made his decision yet," Karen Love said, according to The Oregonian. "He's coming home this week, and we'll sit down and talk about it as a family, just like we've said all along. Honestly, that's the truth." Collison also denied the report through a UCLA spokesman, saying he hadn't yet talked with his parents about his future plans. Howland has a news conference scheduled for Wednesday. In his freshman season at UCLA, Love led the team in scoring at 17.5 points per game and rebounds at 10.6. The 6-foot-10, 271-pound Love was a first-team All-American, the Pac-10 player of the year and the outstanding player of the Anaheim regional. Love, who has been projected to be drafted in the middle of the first round, was upset by the report, his mother told The Oregonian. "Kevin called me in a panic [Tuesday] saying, 'Mom I have not made a decision yet and I'm coming home to do that,'" Karen Love said, according to the report. "He was really upset that someone had said he declared." The 6-foot, 160-pound Collison scored 14.5 points and added 3.8 assists per game in his junior season. Collison struggled in the 78-63 loss to Memphis on Saturday, scoring two points, adding four assists but committing five turnovers. A Western Conference team official told the Times, however: "I thought he was a mid-first round pick [before Memphis]. I think he still is. That's what his talent says to me." The Bruins will also likely lose sophomore guard Russell Westbrook to the draft, the Times reported. He led the Bruins in assists at 4.3 and added 12.7 points per game. The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the draft is April 27.

who won the nac/brenham game?

Memphis finally relasped on their freethrows and it cost them the game...

this is the best final i can remember!

hell of a game!

Well, at least my horns will either be able to say that they lost to the eventual national champion, or that they beat the national champion in the regular season. Not much consolation though.

College, but it's amazing how easy the pros make it look.

I'm going to go with Memphis. I've been predicting against them for quite some time, and they're proved to me that they're a very, very good team. Memphis by 11.

i have ya'll right where i want you.

Yeah right...(Rockets reserve) Steve Novak and (Celtics reserve, reserve ;D) Matt Scalabrine....Those are my picks... :....Stop stirring the pot, bullets13! I actually heard they were giving it to Greg Ostertag. Can you confirm this?

I overheard Dick Vitale saying on here that he strongly feels it should be a co-mvp between Dirk and Nash... ;D

The window I'm looking at has you with 22 points for Beckham and 2 for Christman. So you might be OK. And I can't leave this alone... it also says that you have 10 points on your bench with Sean Franklin... a DEFENDER with the Galaxy... Dude, if you're looking for sympathy in this league, make sure you don't have any defenders on your bench from the Galaxy. That's like being Darth Vader's yoga instructor. What purpose does that guy really serve? it shows the points i would've gotten if my roster wasn't "incomplete". With the 76 points i would've gotten so far (not counting whatever i'd get in the dallas game, which is still going on) , I'd be in 4th right now instead of 14th. just gives me something to come back from, i guess.

If this is the case for Deaver, that's stupid. The only games he missed were because he was out-of-town on Tennis Tourny's. I'm not saying i agree with this, but could it be that the coach didn't nominate him because he made soccer his 2nd choice, leaving his team for these tourneys?

By some kink in the system, I managed to somehow drop four players while i was only able to pick up three. because i was short a midfielder, and didn't have one on the bench, i will receive no points this week. What the hell?

He was one of Silsbee's best players last year too, he plays club in Houston, did he just have an off year or something? Because I remember playing against him last year, and he was pretty dang good... When a team's whole starting lineup makes it, there's not much room for the teams at the lower end of the district. I'm not trying to take anything away from lumberton, as they were certainly the best team in the district. That's just a bit extreme to me. 51 players honored, which represents half the starters in the district (absurd), and 29 of those from 3 teams (more absurd). If you're going to give out that many awards, you need to find a way to represent the bottom half of district as well. I'd much prefer to see the MVPs, 11 on 1st team, 11 on second team. Then the absence of players from the lower teams wouldn't look so offensive. I can understand the way you feel; however, you talk about it being absurd to have 51 named, but do the other teams you talk about have players better than those 51? I will say I watched every team in the district muliple times, and the bench and quite a few JV players on the top three teams were better than most of the starters on the lower tier teams. Not only that, but a few of the lower teir teams were beaten by JV teams. I agree with you. The key word in your statement is "most". As bad as those lower teams are, there are a few players on them that would not be stretches to put on the 2nd team (Deavers, for example), even if it means Lumberton's 11th best player only gets honorable mention (or LCM or Nederland's 9th best). My point, basically, is this. If you're going to dilute the honor by putting 51 players on the team , then you need make sure the lower teams are better represented, at least on the 2nd team. If each all district team had been only 11 players, I wouldn't say a word if I didn't see an HJ, Silsbee, or WOS player on the list. As it is, if the district is going to go out of it's way to pat as many kids on the back as it can, it should honor some of the kids who might have succeeded in other squads, but were stuck on bad teams.

He was one of Silsbee's best players last year too, he plays club in Houston, did he just have an off year or something? Because I remember playing against him last year, and he was pretty dang good... When a team's whole starting lineup makes it, there's not much room for the teams at the lower end of the district. I'm not trying to take anything away from lumberton, as they were certainly the best team in the district. That's just a bit extreme to me. 51 players honored, which represents half the starters in the district (absurd), and 29 of those from 3 teams (more absurd). If you're going to give out that many awards, you need to find a way to represent the bottom half of district as well. I'd much prefer to see the MVPs, 11 on 1st team, 11 on second team. Then the absence of players from the lower teams wouldn't look so offensive.

about time the bats came alive.