If you watched the NCAA Women's basketball national championship game last night you saw quite a game. One I don't think I have watched or seen for awhile, or at least at that level. The national championship on the line and both teams were not good to say the least. 12 points at halftime? Cmon man. This is a team that they are rating up there with the UCLA teams when it comes to winning streaks. 12 points at the half. And they had to have a surge to get that. But still they won. They being UConn so that is worth something cause as bad as they were in the first half, Stanford was just as bad in the second. Some of it was due to defense, but alot of it was due to ineptness. It may not have set the game of women's basketball back and step. But it sure did not move it ahead a step. And if it stayed in the same step, it was a wobbly step. But I watched it cause there was still some uncertainty right down to the end as to who would win or not. Honestly, SDSU might have given both of those teams last night a run for their money. Then again, probably not.
List of Mr. and Mrs. Basketball nominees are out. No one from central South Dakota on the list. I would say Jarred Hannigan from Aberdeen Central will win the Mr. Basketball and the Miss Basketball will come down to Shaunteva Ashley of Sioux Falls Roosevelt and Christian Janis of Pine Ridge. And I believe that Janis will get the nod.
A legendary coach in North and South Daktoa has passed. Rollie Greeno had a hand in thousands of young peoples lives over the course of his long and illustrious 52 year career in coaching football and track and field, cross country and wrestling. He died of cancer yesterday at the age of 84. He coach Milbank to a state record 44 consecutive football wins, a record that still stands here in South Dakota. He is in the Northern State Hall of Fame and North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame for sure. He coached 37 years at Jamestown College.
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Don't look now, Rod, but I think you just made a prediction, with those Mr. and Miss Basketball picks. And I must say you get a pat on the back because I was figuring exactly the same thing on both sides. Hannigan has to be a shoe-in, I think, although congrats to the White River boys for being named as finalists. And I think Janis is the best girls player this year, with Ashley next in line. The third possibility I would also throw out there would be Rachel Krogman from Elkton. Those are my predictions, and of course, we all know how "good" my predictions usually are, so those awards are pretty much up for grabs.
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