2011 West Shakedown

Apologies for the late Shakedowns after the bracket deadline, but we're sitting in the Asylum at J-Dawg's already sweating over the West Va/Clemson and Butler/Ol' D

But lets break it down anyways

WEST REGION

#1 DUKE v. #16 HAMPTON
Kyrie Irving coming back will make a difference! Period point blank! But he'll have to play 2nd fiddle still to Nolan Smith. Can you say Outhet Player of the Year Nolan!?!?!? Nolan says, "Outhet POY, Commissioner Adolph!"

It's been well documented on Nolan's dominance on the high ball screen! The brothers Plumlee will be a presence in the paint. The Dukies have timely 3's from Seth Curry and Andre Dawkins. Kyle Singler is a gamer! Straight up.....he is consistent at 2 things going on o-fer streaks and hitting timely late game shots! He is clutch and has a short memory on his 3-15 shooting performances to still have the stones to take that clutch shot without thinking twice.

Bottom line is that Nolan Smith is like Dave Adolph at an all you can eat buffet, UNSTOPPABLE!!!! Nolan is down right InsAnE! He scores at will!!! Now add the addition of Kyrie, and for you Dukie honks, you have a bonafide Madness favorite in the Poo Devils!

8 MICHIGAN vs. #9 TENNESSEE
For eff sakes, I just wasted 3 minutes back spacing the Tesseeesseeee name. When do you double up on the letters!?!?!? Coach Pearl is a weasel of a coach and recruiter. The only thing Tenesseeeessseeee's main guy, Scotty Hopson, has going for him is his wicked we-tawded flat top. He's their main offensive threat but doesn't show up in big games.

Michigan came into the year as a consensus pick to be a last place team in the Big Ten. Their PG Darius Morris is a bit of a Greg Sale ball hog, but does get his dimes to killer slasher Tim Hardaway, Jr. Freshman Big Gah, Jordan Morgan continues to develop as a semi-big post with quick feet who can run the fast break lanes. Senior, former walk-on, Zach Novak is not as completely useless as the Insanity Report Staff thought earlier on in the year. He and Stu Douglass hit timely 3's and pull off great Bernie Madoff routines with their constant hustle!!!!

Somewhere you hear Charlie Sheen with his M16 in hand taking on the Russian invasion in Colorado, yelling, "WOLVER-EEEEEEEENE'S!!!!!!" Taking Michigan's development over Tennesseeessseeee's fraud of Bruse Pearl. (Bonus Smack Cred for the first Inmate to name that Charlie Sheen movie on the Message Board.....go!)

#5 ARIZONA vs. #12 MEMPHIS
Folks, jump on the Derrick Williams bandwagon!!! You gotta, cuz he is a Top 3 NBA Draft pick this summer. Williams can post up, he can face the hoop and drive into the paint and on the baseline. He's somewhat physical on the boards, but relies on his athleticism to board on the offensive and defensive end. He is intelligent on his positioning on defense. I can hear the non-yearly Inmates saying, "What?....Adolph, english here!" My bad, bottom line with Williams, is he got game! Enjoy watching him play!

As Robert De Niro from Heat would say, "There's a flip side to that coin!" And that is the utter erratic play of Arizona PG Momo Jones! If Zona had a point guard then Arizona would probably be a mimimum 2 seed. They have size to help Williams and Kyle Fogg needs to get hot from downtown!!

Memphis? Pfffffffttthhhfff! Beat it Conference USA. Ya heard Sco!?!?!?

#4 TEXAS vs. #13 OAKLAND
What's the hub bub on an Oakland upset!?!?!? Texas has had bad scores recently and have had a bad beat down to non-Madness team, Colorado. But we'll give you one tidbit on Texas......Rick Barnes can't coach. Oh wait that's not it.....Texas is quite persitent in pounding the ball down in the blocks to Freshmen bigman, Tristin Thompson even when he's ice cold. He has a short memory and will still take shots, and he can pass well from the blocks to players like Jordan Hamilton. Barnes' defensive schemes blow but Texas' players play great one-on-one defense.

Oakland? Even Barnes can get by these tomato cans!

#6 CINCINNATTI (?) vs. #11 MIZZOU

Eff you double letters!!! Cinnciinnatti had a brutally weak non-conference sked to pad their couple wins vs. big Big East teams. And as a 6 seed? This is a brutal match up vs. another jeckyl-n-hyde team in Mizzou. Just ugliness here folks! .....just think Scottie Pippen's shaved head......UGLY!!!!

#3 UCONN vs. #14 BUCKNELL
Main fear is that it's tough to trust a team in UConn that is coming off a Big East title winning 5 games in 5 nights. That's like Jerry Seinfeld's "Heeeellllllooooooo!!!! Baaahh baahhh baahhh!!!" Belly Button quote: TIRED!

UConn was a team last year that had no chemistry and had a team full of Me-guys. This year, their main Me-Guy in Kemba Walker has a team surrounding him that has bought-in and gived Kemba his 35-40 shots per game. Let's see if UConn can continue to ride the Kemba Wave.

#7 TEMPLE vs. #10 PENN STATE
At press time, we've just had Temple make the 3rd freaking buzzer beater in the 5th-6th game of the tourney. Are you kidding me.

Before we move, big huge ups have to be given to a great team in Penn State. They have All-Adolph 1st Teamer, Taylor Battle who hit an unreal 3 to tie the game before Temple's buzzer beater. J-Dawg was saying in the Asylum during this game, "You have to guard him when he steps off the bus!!!!!!" Battle battled all year with killer performances like todays!

Then parlay that into the killer years their bigmen Jeff Brooks, David Jackson and Andrew Jones had. Jeff Brooks was a bonafide All-Big Ten player until one month ago when he separated his shoulder. All he did was come back 2-3 weeks later and help PSU get to the Big Ten final. Today he even played without his shoulder sleeve. Jeff Brooks is a MAN!!

So big ups PSU! Great year! They had these 5 guys average 35-38 minutes a game with zero bench. Way to truck this far Nittany Lions!

#2 SAN DIEGO STATE vs. #15 NORTHERN COLORADO
Apologies, didn't watch the SDSU/BYU game on CBS a coupe weeks back.

Just have one thing to say......with all the upsets so far, we're seeing if the underdogs can keep covering the double digit spreads. Northern Colly +14.5?

Onto the next region!!!!