Final Four day! Here’s my brief analysis. I’m in st louis and typing on a phone, so sorry in advance for misspellings etc.

I like this matchup for state. The key is depth, not just of rotation guys but offensive threats. But the key is raymar Morgan. He doesn’t need to score twenty, but he needs to appear often enough as a threat that Connecticut has to deal with him. He poses a matchup problem for them. If he’s playing well they’ll have to put Stanley Robinson on him, meaning Robinson won’t be available to check suton. So thabeet will have suton instead, and I think goran can pull him away from the basket.

Defensively, john gasaway said it well this week when he said he assumed a j price would have a bad game because travis Walton is guarding him. The key then is kemba walker . . . And how well guys like chris Allen and Durrell summers do at the offensive end. I’m picking state.

One other note, I was hopeful the lions would go after jay cutler, but now that I see the pricetag I’m glad they did not. It’s steep for Chicago and makes no sense for the lions given the number of holes they need to address.