X marks the Monday

Xavier pastes the Flyers - In-state rivals loooove destroying perfect seasons, don't they? Now comes the inevitable "I'd-rather-lose-now-than-later" debate / conversation.

Irish over DePaul - Whew!

Welcome back, Michigan - You know, you got us all worked up, what with the win at Hawaii. Nice to see you again.

That's it? - Speaking of Hawaii, little bit anticlimactic to get throttled 22, 16, and 24 after the oodles of hype and discussion beforehand. Reminds me of when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace came out, but without the Jar Jar Binks-induced nausea.

Atherstone not human, possible cyborg - 30 kills and only 7 errors on 61 swings in Cal Poly's 5-gamer over Long Beach. She's like some kind of mindless offensive machine, sent back from the future to ruin Brian's weekend.

PSU @ Badgerland - Over 10,000 watched PSU escape W's clutches at Camp Randall, 15-13 in the fifth. Harmotto and Reineke with ZERO errors on 58 combined swings...outside of, you know, that last swing by Harmotto. Talk about robbing from Peter to give to Paul-- Russ, I mean Russ.

New Orleans is back! - If ever there was a sign that the city of New Orleans has recovered from Katrina, it's UNO's 5-game win over Western Kentucky! Am I right? No? Yeah, you're right; that was a stretch.

The Cauldron's heating up - Two straight sweeps for the Huskies! Is that Cauldron PHENOMENAL or what? It's like the Magic 8-ball, I swear. You got a question...you ask the Cauldron.

Y O Ming - FYI, Wyoming has won 4 of their last 5, including wins over New Mexico and the Frogs with the horns on 'em. OK, Wyoming did get blanked by Hilbert's Harbingers of Doom, but...how often do I get to mention the Cow People?

That's the problem with predictions - After AZ lost to Stanford, Brooke Buringrud channeled Joe Namath and declared ""We're not losing (Saturday against Cal)." And for two marvelous games, it looked like she was right...until Cal came back to win games 3, 4, and 5. That wasn't very nice, Feller, ruining a young woman's bold prediction like that. Shonda!

NW beats up Gophers...? - I don't get it. Do you? What is that? Is Dave Boos looking at these boxscores and saying "I told them they'd miss me. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"