I Hate Adam Morrison. Period. I Hate Him.

Kansas.

There, that's better.

Well, it's been an exciting four days of basketball fun and now that the dream has officially died for 49 apparently unworthy teams, it is time to look back at the best weekend of the year. As usual, I have quite a bit to say, so I suppose that bullet-format is the most effective way for me to empty my head of the many thoughts that are presently swirling around (with apologies to those of you who served as "test cases" during weekend and, therefore, have heard much of this already).

* Now that Mike Davis' resignation is official, I must say that part of me is genuinely sad to see him go. In my opinion he handled the last two months with class and I wish him luck in the future.

* Truth be told, I am not particularily sad to see Marco Killingsworth go. Marco's technical foul with 16 minutes remaining in IU's loss to Gonzaga pretty much robbed the Hoosiers of any chance that they may have had to beat the Zags. In looking at the replay (and I have looked at it an odd 40 or 50 times), it is clear that the technical was not deserved, but Marco's history of ultra-physical play and his penchance for losing his temper definitely did not help matters. I have to imagine that the officials are instructed before the game to watch Killingsworth closely and he has to show more discipline than he exhibited on Saturday. Oh well, now he's somebody else's problem.

* Don't fret. He'll love Belgium or whatever European country he winds up playing in.

* Perhaps the NCAA may want to instruct their zebras to pay a little extra attention to Gonzaga's Adam Morrison, as well. I haven't seen that many flops since Mary Lou Retton's routine in the 1984 summer games. If Morrison was a hockey player, besides likely getting the crap beaten out of him by a gang of on-ice goons, he'd likely spend most of the game in the penalty box for flopping. He's also a dirty player in the mold of Bill Laimbeer. Morrison's classy move of the game? How about elbiwing Roderick Wilmont directly in the head and then throwing him out-of-bounds. Nice.

* I hate that frickin' guy.

* Thank gosh CBS is so quick with up-to-the-minute always-accurate stats. During the IU versus Man-I-Hate-that-Freakin'-Team-So-Much game, CBS flashed a graphic showing that Indiana had had seven possessions, during which they had committed five turnovers and missed two free-throws. Keep in mind that the Hoosiers had ten points at the time. I guess the games in Salt Lake City must have been played with a drop-down 10-point Rock-N'-Jock basket.

* Boy, they must play an awfully physical brand of basketball in the Big Ten (make that played). After the Illini lost to Washington on Saturday, Bruce Weber wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the referees sent the Huskies to the free throw line 39 times, while the Illini only shot a total of 11 free throws. Stop your whining Bruce. Try winning a game when your opponent goes to the line 41 times and you only get 6 freebies. Ask Mike Davis whether its easy.

* In my honest opinion neither Illinois nor Indiana lost their games as a result of the free throw descrepancy. Let me repeat that for those of you who did not hear me the first time...neither Illinois nor Indiana lost their games as a result of the free throw descrepancy. That said, in my opinion, there is something conceptually wrong with a 41-6 free-throw difference.

* Bruce Weber already has a Coach of the Year trophy on his mantle and has a national championship game under his belt. Few doubt that the man is a great coach (and he is exceptionally adapt at teaching the art of the moving screen). But, if Weber is looking for a reason for the Illini's loss, he really ought to head to the nearest mirror. Illinois was scoring at will during the first 12 minutes of the second half against Washington, but went to a seemingly-modified four-corner offense with about eight minutes to go in the game, forcing the Illini to launch jump shots at the tail end of the shotclock on possession after possession. Why, Bruce, why?

* And how about the last play? Weber's huddle conversation must have amounted to "Uh, give the ball to Dee and let him shoot from 30 feet." How about a pick-and-roll? A pick-and-pop? The ol' picket fence? Something.

* Weber must have forgotten that Dee Brown is not Jimmy Chitwood.

* Did I mention that I hate Adam Morrison?

* Isn't Tony Skinn truly the heart-warming story of the tournament? During Friday evening's Michigan State-George Mason game, CBS continually showed shots of Skinn sitting on the bench in a suit cheering on his teammates. The announcers waxed poetic about how great it was that Skinn's teammates had banded together without their second-leading scorer and won a big game, giving Skinn a chance to play another game in a GM uniform. How nice. Makes you smile, that Tony gets a chance to play again, doesn't it? And who can blame CBS for focusing on such an inspiring story?

Memo to CBS...the guy wasn't sitting out the game because he was too stricken with grief over the death of his faithful dog. He wasn't on the bench because he suffered a gun shot wound after jumping in front of a bullet that was targeted for an 8-year old girl with pigtails. The dude was suspended because he punched a guy in the nuts.

* What is with all the camera time being given to coaches' wives, players' mothers, and assorted other relatives and friends. Heck, I think I saw a shot of Winthrop's assistant athletic trainer's nephew at one point. In fact, it seems as though the only person who didn't get air time was Arizona guard Hassan Adams' parole officer.

* Speaking of Adams, it must be tough to play defense against Villanova's superstar Randy Foye. Especially with that cumbersome ankle bracelet.

* Nice to see Brad Pitt's multiple personalities finally battle it out on the court. Shocking that CBS did not find time to show either Angelina or Jen during the game. Why doesn't he just throw in the towel and hit on Jessica Alba, already?

* Brad's victory over Pitt was one of the nice moments of the tournament. The scare that Albany put into UConn was nice as well. Of course, there is also the performance of the fro' and his Demon teammates. We can only pray that Northwestern State's victory over Iowa will severly damage Steve Alford's chances of becoming the next coach at IU.

* By the way, rumor has it that Texas A (screw the ampersand) M's Billy Gillipsie is the front-runner for the IU job. I guess he just can't take that stupid punctuation any more...

* Shifted gears this year and went to Joe's on Weed Street for the first two days of the tournament. Good setup. Great atmosphere. Better cheese fries.

* Today stinks. The four most-fun days of the year are over and there is no college basketball worth watching on TV (the NIT is not worth watching). If only another sport would hold an international competition pitting the best players in the world against one another for world supremacy. I mean, the USA would be sure to dominate, right? Oh, never mind. I guess I'll watch Love Boat reruns.

Have a great day and stay out of trouble...unless you run into Adam Morrison. If you do, please Tony Skinn him in the nuts for me.