BAN JAY BILAS FROM MICHIGAN COVERAGE

Listening to Jay Bilas during the last 5 minutes of today's Michigan basketball game was like Chinese water torture.

Keep in mind, this is the same guy that said Michigan was getting screwed if they didn't get a bid to the NCAA Tournament last year.

Well with time running out, Bilas started searching for reasons - er, excuses - why we suck.

His first idea?

We were trying TOO hard. Jay, did you notice Amaker benched all the starters in the last game? I wonder why that is.... I guess the guys were trying so hard in practice, Tommy decided to give them the extra rest.

And did anyone notice how when they sent it back to the studio, Rick Majerus and Steve Lavin kept calling Michigan "apathetic" and "lethargic"?

Then either Bilas or Raftery said it's "not about the X's and O's with this team, it's mental." Actually, X's and O's are exactly our problem! We don't even have them because Amaker doesn't run an offense! Instead of X's and O's, we just get the twirly finger.

Then Bilas topped it all off with this gem: "If they could get some scoring, this would be a completely different team."

Just like Amaker. It all sounds so simple.


Another reason to hate Duke...