Lexington Conquered: Day 3

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The man-child has eluded us yet again.

We're now 0-for-2 in our quest to take in Greg Oden up close, missing Wednesday when we lost track of time and yesterday when we were too busy writing to attend his game against Central Connecticut High School.

Sorry to pick on the Blue Devils. They're actually really hard not to root for. They have only nine players on their team and had unreal height disadvantages at every position.

But that wasn't even the most lopsided game of the day. Whatever the final score was, the Louisville-Stanford game was 10 times worse.

Stanford looked like it had never seen a full-court press before, the way they were throwing the ball around.

Speaking of Stanford, in the "you can't blame the genetic lottery for this" category, what's up with the Lopez twins?

Brook, who Wheeling correctly pointed out about an hour and a half into the game, does not have an "e" in his name, is one of the best big men in the game. He was the only guy who could do anything right against U of L.

Brook's twin ~~sister~~ brother Robin, is a foul machine who couldn't really do anything on offense.

How is this possible? Didn't they have the same coaches all along? I mean, my brother played in high school, and I suck, but we have different bodies and had different coaches all through our careers. Shouldn't these guys with the same genes and the same drills under their belts not be so different on the court?

I'll never understand this one.

Basketball games watched: 25, including all 16 Tournament games yesterday.

Vital correction: Loyal Buzz reader Steven J. Bilsky pointed out that the Daily actually asked 11 questions during Wednesday's press conferences, not 10 as reported in the Day 2 post.

Moment of the day: Watching the aforementioned Bilsky get kicked out of the media buffet.

The ever-clever Bilsky used a classic line of "I'm with the cheerleaders," as he breezed past the guard who was checking that his pass said "M" for media, which it did not. Then after the guard tracked him down in the buffet line, he said he would go seek a higher authority from the NCAA to get him in. No word on how that turned out. But a nice job by Bilsky not to play the "Do you know who I am" card.

Quote of the day:"That's the first thing I thought of when I woke up today." -- Josh Hirsch on our morning discussion of us not putting this up last night.

Since he's not a senior, we'll blame it on Wheeling.