Best and Worst of 09/10 part 3 of 3

Round 3:

~ Best: In looking at the teams taken in round 3, it really looks like a pile of shit. Out of this, Babs and Maryland snagged this award, pulling in 60 pts from pick #30. While Maryland was looking good coming into the season, I don't think many - including Babs - had Maryland sharing the ACC title.

~ runner-up: Xavier was very good this year despite losing some key players from last year's solid squad. Yet, they still managed to make a strong run at the end and snag Phunmunki one of her only positive notes this year, bringing in 55 points from pick 25.

~ Worst: CEO and Oklahoma at pick 23.Remarkably, this team has 3 players who think they did well enough to jump to the League. Maybe a little more teamwork, practice, and execution first boys, or its the D-League calling. Oklahoma's disappearance from all things important in college basketball snagged the CEO only 23 points and a Babblemur Worst of the Worst Award. Well done.

~ runner-up: TIE. Tulsa and SGII, Gunz and UCLA. 26 points from both. Not good boys. UCLA only won 14 games all year. Seven more wins from these fools and Gunz wins the league.



Round 2:

~ Best: Babs and Butler, at pick 11, bringing in the second highest point total of all teams this year at 119. This is amazing - I just didn't think a team from a conference with few others selected could snag so many points. But with undefeated conf season, tourney champs, a few good wins during the year, and an awesome NCAA run, this team snags a Babblemur Top 5 award.

~ runner-up: Jutdog and Tennessee. Tenn brought in 75 points from pick 12, which is a solid outing when considering half your lineup is arrested and jailed for drugs and illegal guns with the ID removed. Bab's was right to say he just didn't feel comfortable with those thugs. That said, it really seemed that getting rid of their preseason all-american thug and the other junkies made the team seriously better, taking them deep in the tourney and getting wins over #1 Kansas and #1 Kentucky.

~ Worst: Not too difficult here. Phunmunki wins a Babblemur Worst of the Worst award scoring only 26 points from the 16th pick. I didn't like this pick, but Babs was talking them up highly and Phunny bought it. Michigan just was not good this year.

~ runner-up: Turtle's UCONN, bringing 36 points from pick 13. Maybe here is a trend - lose a monster interior player and your stock goes way down (see Oklahoma). These guys just didn't have it together this year.



Round 1:

~ Best: Hands down Gunz and Duke snag this trophy. 168 points is just massive, and they did it with much more than just the NCAA Final Four points. Duke had endless wins over other players (almost 50 pts!!), they won a preseason and postseason tourney, and they tied for the ACC league. Surprisingly, Duke had ZERO wins over another AP Top 10 team. Duke does win a Babblemur Top 5 award.

~ runner-up: TIE. Jutdog with West Virginia (pick 9) and Jaybird with Kentucky (pick 2). West Virginia really paid off for Jutdog bringing in a third best 112 points. Kentucky snagged Jaybird 108 points. Both of these squads tie for a Babblemur Top 5 award.

~ Worst: SGII rounds out the last Worst of the Worst awards with UNC bringing in 41 points from pick 4. This would explain his horrendous performance this past year. Might we suggest placing teams in a hat and allowing Cara to pick (its been over 12 years, so if that's not her name we can pretend).

~ runner-up: Despite spending over half of the season in the top 5 in the country, Akaoni's Texas disappeared when anything mattered, bringing in only 50 points. Texas is starting to become consistent, in that they bring in great players who don't win when it matters. May Iowans take them again and again.