Clay does love to shake things up and covers a ton of stuff for women's basketball, but when he posted this line at the head of an article from early last December, I just thought "Sometimes your fingers have to override your brain before it tells them to do something stupid."
"We’ll start with Tennessee, which throughout the history of women’s college basketball, has been just about as sure a thing as possible."
Um, Clay can we deal with the present not past history? I know sometimes it's hard to remember that this is the year 2013, but Ball State was a possibility an eon ago back in 2009. His preview of UConn-ND #4 was about as wishy washy a piece as could be written along the lines of "whoever coaches with the best tactics will win." I've heard Carolyn Peck speak more inciteful words.
But for Clay at his absolute best, read the Baylor-Louisville preview, which he should make his calling card for being the all-knowing perfect pundit of WCBB (if you just ignore the final paragraph). Simply put, he says Sara Hammond is the key. "But unless she can magically raise her game Sunday, her Cardinals are pretty much done." Perfect, and if Clay had stopped there he could have had himself immortalized in the prediction pantheon, but then he tarnished things a bit by writing, "Baylor is one of the best women’s collegiate basketball teams ever, and though they claim they play the games because there’s always a chance, the only way the Bears lose this one is if the bus gets lost and they have to forfeit."
Oh well, the bus got lost, but before we all start feeling smug, we should remember that there are BYers who are already jumping into the injury-probability game for a team that has 9-11 players and only plays with 7 to 8 in March April. Sick.
