NBL Finals series on tap

NBL Finals Series underway

With basketball seasons around the globe in overload, Australia’s NBL season has reached the Semi Final stage with the top seeded New Zealand Breakers (22-6) facing the fourth seeded Perth Wildcats (16-12). The other semi matchup is an all Queensland affair with second seeded Townsville (17-11) playing number three seed Cairns 16-12).

The New Zealand/Perth matchup kicked off on Thursday night with the Wildcats shocking NZ in Auckland by a 101-78 score. The match was delicately poised at the half with the score knotted at 52. Perth held the NZ crew to 26 second half points to run out victors and gain the advantage in the series. Game two will be on Sunday afternoon with the decider, if necessary held on Wednesday night.

Cairns and Townsville kick off in a few hours with game one starting at 8pm tonight. The series will finish with games on Saturday night and Sunday if necessary.

Tune in to OneHD for the action. 

NCAA Final

NCAA Men’s Final

Well, the denouement is neigh for the 2010-2011 NCAA basketball season. Of course my bracket is shattered, of course my picks in the semi final games were wrong, of course I’ll attempt to pick the winner of the championship game and this will be my last prediction of this year’s college season.

The Final:

Butler vs. UConn

Well one UConn team has bitten the dust in the Final Four after the Husky ladies suffered a shock loss to Notre Dame in the semi finals. As for the men’s team, they come in a slight favourite over Butler although the Bulldogs are in the championship game for the second year in a row.

Prediction wise I will go with Butler due to their nucleus of players left over from last season. UConn will not get away with another bad performance like the one they put forward against Kentucky

So….

Butler wins 66-62.

My tourney picking record for 2011: 40 right-24 wrong