Would include having the free time to actually participate in a fantasy football draft for once, instead of having to autodraft. This is the third time in four years I’ve had to autodraft. Not sure there’s a more frustrating thing.
Well, maybe having the last pick in a 16-team league is a little more frustrating. Here’s hoping tonight’s draft (in an 18-team league!) turns out a little better. Fingers crossed for L.T.
Speaking of fantasy, not sure what the editors at Blue Ribbon were thinking by making Marquette’s Dominic James one of the five cover boys for this season’s Yearbook. Don’t get me wrong, James is a good player who will probably be preseason All-Big East and will get some All-America votes.
But a cover boy for something like the Yearbook should be a slam-dunk conference player of the year. The other four players, UNC’s Tyler Hansbrough, Georgetown’s Roy Hibbert, Tennessee’s Chris Lofton and Michigan State’s Drew Neitzel, are just that. (Neitzel may be pushed by Indiana’s D.J. White and Tyler Hansbrough by Virginia’s Sean Singletary, but Lofton and Hibbert are shoe-ins — though Villanova’s Scottie Reynolds won’t make it easy.)
I would’ve pushed for UCLA’s Darren Collison, Memphis’ Chris Douglas-Roberts, Kansas Brandon Rush (though he’ll miss some of the season due to injury) or a small-school guy like Utah State’s Jaycee Carroll. (He’d be a tough sell because you have to sell the mag on newstands, but still worthy...)
Then again, maybe James will shrug off the mini-sophomore slump from last season. Those guys at Blue Ribbon are pretty smart.
• As a Kansas grad, I still find time to visit Lawrence every few years. Here’s a new reason to go. (Sticking with the fantasyland theme...)
There’s more info on the College Basketball Experience here, too. Anyway, the upstairs basketball court sounds great, but I’m always amazed at how far $20 million goes to creating a place like this (and vice versa. It sounds cool, but I’m reserving judgment.)
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College-Basketball Notebook about NBA Draft JOURNAL WIRE REPORT ? Coach Roy Williams of North Carolina says he has met with Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington about the possibility of their entering the NBA Draft. In an interview on the school's Web site posted>
Hansbrough will return to UNC; Ellington, Lawson to enter NBA draft Journal File Photo Updated: 04/25/2008 05:08 pm Tyler Hansbrough will return to North Carolina for his senior basketball season next year but Wayne Ellington and Ty Lawson are headed to the NBA Draft. Ellington and Lawson will not>
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End of Tape: Davis, North Carolina's trainer, is stepping down after 31 seasons on Lawson's ankle so he could return on March 1. Two seasons ago, Davis had to take center Tyler Hansbrough into the trainer's room to stop the bleeding from a broken nose suffered at the end of a game against Duke. In the 1992 season, Davis had to close>
