Thursday, February 15, 2007

5 Hottest Teams

The Tigers are listed as the second Hottest Team exactly one month before the tourney begins. The others are Florida, South Alabama, Winthrop, and South Connecticut State. Interesting and varied group there.

From ESPN:

Memphis (14 consecutive wins)

The Tigers are talented, but not battle-tested. They've dominated a mediocre-at-best Conference USA, and their best non-conference win was against Kentucky before Thanksgiving. They've played only three ranked teams, and none since losing at Arizona on Dec. 20. Not exactly a recipe for March success. Yes, Memphis played a similar schedule last season and got to the Elite Eight. But they were a more talented team a year ago, with Shawne Williams and Darius Washington Jr. -- and they had a pretty easy road to that regional final against UCLA, beating 16-seed Oral Roberts, 9-seed Bucknell and 13-seed Bradley along the way.

1 comment:

Lee Ann aka Dixie said...

I have had this kick ass cold for 2 days now. Home alone sick, watching those Tigers play Gonzaga... Whew.... .they pulled it out... didn't help my headache any....

Woooo Hoooo Vandy beat Florida today and that means Memphis now has the longest winning streak record....

GO TIGERS GO!!!!!!