Weekend Recap: Cats and Cards Win, Ranked Teams Lose and a Boogie style Birthday

Let's make this quick.

• The Cats repaid the favor and defeated the Dawgs in front of 24,000 fans at Rupp arena. The Highlights: Darius Miller had his most impressive outing this year and has put together two impressive games in a row and has scored in double digits in five straight games. Miller's performance is the key to March. Terrence Jones continues his dominance and had a little whisper chat with the always hot UK fan, Ashley Judd. The Low lights: Georgia was able to creep back in the game even after a 19 point Kentucky lead. The emergence of a seventh man is still lacking.
• The Cards got an impressive double overtime victory at Uconn, winning by one point. The Cards hit circus shot after circus shot, particularly Peyton Siva, keeping them in the game and securing the victory. I am sure how they are winning these games but they are. I keep expecting the lack of talent to catch up with them but it hasn't yet. Kudos to the basketball Cards. They are playing inspired ball and I can't deny it.
• The Celtics beat the Lakers at home. Rondo had another HUGE assist game and Kobe whined like a little girl after the loss. Just like he does after every loss.
• Duke went down to St. Johns. And they went down big time. Which goes to show that any team can be beat at any time by any opponent in college basketball. There is no such thing as a sure victory. Plus I don't think Duke is all that good.
• On a similar note, a ton of ranked teams went down to un-ranked teams this weekend. Duke lost to St. Johns, Washington lost to Washington State, BYU lost to New Mexico, Syracuse lost to Marquette, Texa A&M lost to Nebraska, Wisconsin lost to Penn State and Florida lost to Mississippi State. Ohio State barly got out with a win against Northwestern by one point and Pitt nearly lost to Rutgers. This year is any body's championship.
• One final note: Boogie has been blowing up lately in the NBA. My all time favorite UK player posted 25 points and 10 rebounds in a Kings upset over the Hornets, stopping a 10 game winning streak for New Orleans. And even more impressive he outplayed Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum by scoring 27 points and grabbing 10 boards in a stunning win against the Lakers. Don't give that Rookie of the Year trophy to Blake Griffin just yet. Boogie might be hitting his stride. So, in honor of the Boogie Man, I leave you with this:

We miss you DeMarcus. Sniff, sniff.