Musketeer Madness

This from the A10 notebook on the A10 site.

STAN THE MAN: Xavier senior Stanley Burrell is one of the top defensive players in the A-10 this season. Now ESPN analyst Jay Bilas says it's time to mention Burrell on a national level as well. "We also have a national Defensive Player of the Year award, but we have no candidates for it. Well, if I were to provide candidates for the Henry Iba Award (that's the Mr. Iba Award to you), I would list Kansas guard Mario Chalmers, Xavier guard Stanley Burrell, UCLA guard Darren Collison, Washington State wing Kyle Weaver, Marquette guard Jerel McNeal, and UConn center Hasheem Thabeet. Just looking at the steals and blocked shots leaders won't tell you the whole story on defense. Among a lot of great defenders out there, these few have stood out to me."
http://atlantic10.cstv.com/sports/m-bas ... 08aaa.html

Stan is getting noticed and give Bilas credit for calling it right.

It's nice to see Bilas making positive comments about the school and XU players but he has a long way to go before I respect him. After years of arguing against mid majors because of RPI/SOS he posted an article this year stating that the RPI has overstayed its welcome. He did this because Drake and several other mid majors were looking strong according to the RPI and he can't imagine them being as good as the power conference teams. Of course the negative comments about XU last year pertaining to both our inclusion over Syracuse in the tourney and about the Oden foul not being flagrant are also reason enough to dislike him.

He can't change the rules just because they now work against his desire to see only BCS schools in the tourney.

No doubt..but then our Jesuit training teaches us to forgive....but not forget.