Players of the Weekend

The beautiful thing about college hoops is you never really know who and when the stage will be stolen. With just three weeks until Selection Sunday, the Madness got a great prequel with a handful of spectacular performances.

Player of the Weekend:

Grieves Vasquez recorded Maryland's first triple double in more than twenty years in leading the Terps to an improbable OT comeback victory over the Tarheels. Trailing by six with less than a minute to go in regulation, the Terps surged back with trapping D and clutch scoring; the final bucket to tie coming on a Vasquez drive with seven seconds to play. For good measure he blocked Ty Lawson's buzzer beater attempt and controled overtime for the entire five monutes.

Honorable Mention:

AJ Abrams looked more like the November All-American worthy version than the Abrams that showed up the past few weeks. With the Horns on the ropes and the season on the verge of slipping away, Abrams scored 15 points in the final five and a half minutes and shot Texas to a huge victory over arch rival Oklahoma

Gordon Hayawrd (Butler) - The sensational freshman upstaged the heralded Steph Curry netting 27 points in Butler's easy victory over Davidson. The bitch of "Brackbuster Weekend" is that is a lose-lose for the small schools. Butler wins, and "Davidson isn't that good." Meanwhile, for Davidson it is another strike in the "they can't hang with the big boys" column. Unfortunatly for the 'Cats, it means they better win he SoCon tourney in two weeks if they want to dance.


OK, off my soapbox - the point; Hayward and the Bulldogs looked great.

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