The best part about this horrible flop by Greg Paulus Thursday against VCU is the replay – if you listen closely, there’s a room full of Duke haters that breaks up in laughter when the slow motion video proves that Paulus was barely touched … and he tried to draw the charge, anyway.

**Unrelated to Duke … there’s a spectacular finish in the making between Xavier and BYU. And there aren’t many better things in the announcing world than when Gus Johnson has the call in a close game. In most of our pools we took BYU, and in all of our bets we had the Cougars, too. A lot of the latter had to do with GW repping the A-10 real well against Vandy.

Well, Xavier won, 79-77. Sets up a bit of a local battle – Ohio State against Xavier Saturday. Plus, Thad Matta used to coach Xavier. Think it’ll be as interesting as Louisville-Texas A&M? Doubt it.