Dude! That was awesome! I mean at first I was freaked out, sure, but then ... yeah.

This weekend's basketball was notable for one overriding reason, one thing that people will be talking about from now until, well, maybe March: Boston College's stunning but altogether convincing upset over the previously indefatigable North Carolina Tar Heels. A team many thought could pull off an undefeated season, UNC struggled for a variety of reasons, most of which were covered by our own Chris Chase in his late Sunday analysis. For that reason, we're going to move on from the UNC-BC thing and let it die, at least for a day. Like I said, I have a feeling we'll be talking about that game for a while. It could be UNC's only blemish all year, after all, even if that prospect looks considerably less likely than before.

No, there were other great games on Saturday and Sunday, some of which I was lucky to have witnessed. Onward, upward, like an Edgar Sosa jump shot.

Speaking of Edgar Sosa: Edgar Sosa has no conscience. In one of the best games yet this year, Kentucky and Louisville -- two regional rivals with a shared hatred any Louisvillian could attest to -- played a well-shot, uptempo game for 40 minutes before it was ended by Edgar Sosa. Consider the unlikelihood of this shot: Sosa, a player who had gone 7-for-35 from three coming into Sunday's game, and who before the game was asked by Rick Pitino to transfer (!), and -- and -- who somehow got the start, and somehow scored 18, and somehow on the last play of a tied game pulled up with time running out and chucked a 25-foot three that smashed the back iron on its way into the hoop. That stuff just doesn't happen, until it does.

It was a one-time reproduction, the NCAA equivalent of Kobe Bryant's famous proclamation about Gilbert Arenas: that Arenas "had no conscience." For all of his problems off the court, and his struggles on it, for one night, that lack of conscience made Edgar Sosa look totally badass. (For me, that would be worth it. Just saying.)

Pittsburgh and Georgetown grind like The Clipse. The Big East has its reputation as a "tough" conference, not only tough as in "it's really tough to be a team in the Big East -- just ask Syracuse," but also in the sense that the teams play a tough brand of basketball. Whether that's more or less true than other conferences in the country is up for debate (and might be one of those sports debates that are relatively impossible to quantify or solve). But there's no question that at least of these teams play a slow, banging, brutal style of basketball, and two of those teams faced off on Saturday. One, Pittsburgh. The other, Georgetown. Between them, 118 possessions, below both of their season averages. That sloth produced the sort of game you get when you have really strong, really athletic guys walking the ball up the floor on every possession -- a brutal, aesthetically boring grind. To watch Georgetown-Pitt is to watch college basketball as an efficient, ruthless machine. It's the exact opposite of North Carolina's, or Tennessee's styles, and it might be more effective, but man is it tough to sit through sometimes.

In any case, Pittsburgh outlasted Georgetown, a big win for a Pittsburgh team that needed to justify its current high esteem. Ugly or not, it did so.

Speaking of slow, this was not it. It's probably fitting that just after I get done complaining about the slowness of Big East basketball, I get to discuss Bruce Pearl. Actually, given that I'm writing this, and thus get to choose the sequence in which these ill-conceived notions are ordered, I suppose it's not really "fitting" at all. In any case, those who got tired of Pittsburgh and Georgetown's early afternoon slugfest got something of an antidote in the late game, in which Tennessee and Kansas shared 154 possessions and scored 177 points. Kansas, as it were, scored a greater portion: 92 to Tennessee's 85, a game in which, in spite of the speed, neither team really played much defense. The difference may well have been Sherron Collins' all-court game. Kansas' guard had 26 points on 7-for-14 shooting, and tossed in five rebounds and nine assists for good measure. What's more is that he controlled Kansas' pace all day -- when the Jayhawks needed to run, Collins did so, and vice versa. It was an impressive performance from a guard many people lost track of after Kansas' national championship in 2008.

Everywhere else: There was a whole lot of everywhere else this week, and UNC wasn't the only team to get the upset disease: Notre Dame was outrebounded 40-27 by St. John's, and lost ... while Arizona State was outshot by Jerome Randle and the rest of California's uncharateristically hot shooters ... Duke had no problems with Virginia Tech ... Michigan beat a capable, fast Illinois team, and look out for Alex Legion, Big Ten ... and UCLA handled Oregon easily. Some upsets, some non-upsets. As if we even know what an upset is in January. (As if we even know what "is" is. I just blew my own mind, man.)

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