New Scaratings

The Lady Cardinals pulls a major upset against the defending champs Baylor 82-81 in a regional semi, ending Britney Griner's collegiate carrer.

While the men's team beat Duke 85-63 in an emotional win after Kevin Ware suffers a extremely bad leg injury that has the crowd and BOTH teams and coaches visibly shaken.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

Scar, guess you wanna get tickets for the game eh?????

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

Kevin Ware's broken leg will heal in time, and he will be back. He sure isn't a quiter, and worked his way off of being a bench sitter to being Pitino's first choice to go in at guard to replace either Siva or Smith when needed. The kid has a lot of heart, and I think that will carry him through his terrible injury. I expect to see him back, with fire in his belly to pick up where he left off.




................................ Look at the expression on Kevin's face. He'll be back.

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What worries me is why the leg broke on a seemingly innocuous play and more important, why it broke in the fashion it did. According to reports, it actually broke in two places. Am certainly rooting for the kid to make a full recovery and play ball at some time in the future.

A friend of mine was working on a toilet a few years back tightening something with a wrench when his arm broke. Just snapped his arm while putting pressure on a tool, spiral fracture of his humerus. Very strange. Turns out he had an aggressive tumor pressing on the bone.

Scary stuff for sure.

Rick Pitino was with Kevin Ware when surgery was done on his leg....hope the best for him....but Louisville must press on and take on Wichita State.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

I just couldn't believe it.

Was heart wrenching. Never seen anything like it.

Really proud of the fortitude displayed by Louisville and the caring for a teammate, and appreciative of the class exhibted by Duke and Coach K.

A few years back, De'Sean Butler from WVU tore his knee up in an Elite Eight game against Duke.
Never was able to get it back to where it was previous and never made it to the pros; His ab assitant coach at WVU now.

Huggins was in tears after the injury, just like Pitino.

Hope the kid gets better.

I heard something awful tonight, and I pray that this doctor's guesses are wrong. We were all talking about Kevin Ware's compound fracture tonight, and Watson said that he was working at a bone specialist's house earlier today, who said that such a severe break for such a young man is not normal for what transpired. The doctor said that he was concerned that it might be osteoporosis, or worse bone cancer. He also said it might be a result of a previously undetected stress fracure. I'm sure we will soon find out why it happend. I'm hoping that this doctor's first two hypotheses don't prove to be true, and if they aren't, I think Kevin will be back raring to go next year. Keep your fingers crossed, and pray that he will be okay.




This kid is a team player, and as I understand it, as he was laying on the floor he told Pitino something like, "Don't worry about me, win the game."

A final thought:

If Louisville is lucky enough to make it to the championship game, I wonder if the NCAA would allow Kevin to take the court, wearing his cast and using his crutches in a brief cameo appearance as a player during the game. It would have to be something both teams agreed to and backed off for a minute, as long as Kevin promised not to dunk the ball and score.

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Well, I know it was once done in the women's game with one of the UConn players, but I can't imagine you'd ever see this in the men's game (at least not at the BCS level). With the amount of money wagered on the title game, there'd be too much public outrage & backlash about the "integrity of the game" for that to ever happen.

Thirty seconds would be long enough, and the timekeeper could stop the clock for those thirty seconds. It wouldn't effect game play in the least, and would give this kid, who's basketball career could possibly be over, a chance to say goodbye to the game standing on his feet instead of lying on the floor.

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