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Georgia fired Dennis Felton in mid-season appeared to be thoroughly botching their coaching search. They targeted Missouri coach Mike Anderson, and had to wait until he finished a strong run to the Elite Eight. In doing so, Georgia missed out on other coaches like Anthony Grant. If not for the farce of a coaching search in Arizona overshadowing things, Georgia would have been receiving plenty of ridicule.

Anderson rebuffed Georgia and the reported $2 million plus offer to stay at Missouri for a nice raise, but not what Georgia was offering. Georgia's coaching search appeared to be in disarray. As if the program did not expect to be rejected by their first choice if they overwhelmed him with cash.

With the UNLV win today and the OT victory for the Nevada Wolfpack over Creighton, 77-71, it's been a good day for Nevada residents (unless you apparently bet against the home team). Both schools were 7 seeds, just to add to the coincidence

Nevada and Creighton had a back and forth game. Nevada shot better -- especially from outside -- then Creighton and was much better at the free throw line to help offset a whopping -11 turnover margin.

While All-American Nick Fazekas is always the big name for Nevada and had decent numbers, he was in foul trouble most of the game and fouled out in the OT. It was really Marcelus Kemp who carried the team in the second half and the OT. Kemp had 27 points and was a clutch 7-7 at the FT line, including 4-4 in the OT.

Nevada now gets the Memphis Tigers on Sunday. I'm not much into conspiracy theories, but with the number of mid-major teams and non-BCS conference teams that had to face each other in the first round. Now you add in the fact that Nevada and Memphis have to face in the second round, well I would understand if some started to thing the Selection Committee wanted to help the numbers indicating the mid-majors just don't appear to have much success compared to the major conferences.

In his second start as the one-and-only-officially-the-starting quarterback for the Arizona State Sun Devils, Rudy Carpenter lit up the Nevada defense for five touchdown passes in a 52-21 win.

After a slow start in their season opener against Northern Arizona, the Sun Devils looked to Colorado's embarrassing loss to Montana State for inspiration to motivate them against the lowly Wolf Pack.

Fittingly enough, the #23 Sun Devils will travel to Boulder this weekend to meet the winless Colorado Buffaloes, whose road to victory this season seems tougher than ever.