Calling Judy Southard

Well, it's not only Rutgers who'd like a few private moments with Judy Southard and her NCAA Selection Committee. Robert Morris coach Sal Buscaglia - who, incidentally, has nothing on C. Viv in the long run-on sentence/sentence fragment response category - spent a looong time in today's meet-the-media session moaning about his team's 15th seed. "I'd like," he said, "to see a little more openness (from the committee)."

Buscaglia's Colonials for the second year in a row won the NEC. They won 23 games and they're on a 17-game win streak. They traveled to SEC and Big XII middlers Florida and Nebraska, respectively, and they lost to Missouri, which took out Oklahoma in the Big XII tourney, by just a point. Their backcourt tandem of Sade Logan and Chinata Nesbit scores more than all but one backcourt pair in the country and their dribble drive motion offense, which Memphis' men's team has popularized and very few women's teams run, led to six double-digit scorers in their final game. So the 15 seed Robert Morris got, Buscaglia said, "that's disappointing to us."

Then he repeated the sentence, verbatim, several times.

Noting the outrage ESPN's analysts expressed over Rutgers and UConn sharing a region, and the subsequent "explanation" from Southard, he said, "It's also very important for every kid in the tournament, the 15 and 16 seeds, it's equally important to them (to get answers)."

Mocking the "reward" to his 23-win team, he said, "You're talking about going into the tournament and playing one of the best teams in the country. They could win the national title."

Of where HE would've put RMU, he said, "I really felt like we should've been a 13 seed, or at worst, a 14."

Maybe that Sen. Singer should go find his counterpart from Moon Township in Pennsylvania...