Cram Session recaps yesterday's best individual performances, highlights, and other flotsam, all for the love of the blog. I'd tell you more, but then I'd have to ruin your tournament chances with a phantom over-the-back call. You're just going to have to read it. Sorry.

The Bill Raftery Performance of the Day: Joe Alexander

Joe Alexander was an honorable mention in this category yesterday, and for good reason: He scored 22 points in a tight, tough win over Providence Wednesday, a win that put the stamp on West Virginia's entry into next week's festivities. Yesterday, though, Alexander went from really good to oh-my-god-your-face-son! in the matter of 40 minutes. The former Taiwan resident (Raftery teaches me something new every day) went 12-22 for 34 points and seven rebounds, including 10-12 from the free throw line. He was thoroughly impressive ... but never moreso than in his two-handed dunk over Stanley Robinson, which caused this vintage Bill Raftery moment. Anytime you get Raftery to name a dunk after you, and casually drop the word "alacrity" as if he didn't just look it up on Thesaurus.com during the last 20-second timeout, well, you know you're doing something right. Correction: Joe Alexander is doing everything right.

Honorable mention: Pac-10 officials. After the series of calls that gave UCLA a win over Cal, or the foul call on Stanford that put Darren Collison on the line (and earned UCLA a win), you might think this award is being given sarcastically. And you'd be absolutely right. The latest Pac-10 team to get screwed? Arizona State, on a very, very dubious foul call by referee Michael Eggers that erased a late-minute basket by Jeff Pendergraph. The call sealed the Sun Devils' collective fate while simultaneously making Tim Floyd feel so guilty he started campaigning for Herb Sendek and crew immediately after the game. If there's any silver lining, it's that ASU might just sneak into the tourney regardless of Thursday's result, but the idea that a bad late call leaves things in doubt makes Eamonn angry.

Don't get me wrong: Reffing is tough. (At least, it seems tough.) But the Pac-10 can now add its third high-profile, game-changing official's decision to the litany described above. It might be time to find some new zebras. Or at least send these back to the Yakima high school circuit for an intensive training course in not ruining everything.

The Bob Knight Refuses to be Interesting Disappointment of the Day: Baylor

In the lexicon of teams you ought to want to see succeed, the 2008 Baylor Bears are up there. Given where Baylor basketball has been the past, oh, 10 years, and seeing that the Bears have won more than 20 games just four times in 100 years, it'd be nice to see them make a little noise in the NCAA's. Baylor has a solid resume. The work is there. But when you blow double OT games to Colorado in the first round of a lackluster Big 12 tournament, what are you if not disappointing?

Honorable mention: Bob Knight. Seriously dude. We know how you really are. Stop it with the made-for-TV, aren't-I-nice-to-Rece-Davis nonsense. If you're not going to choke somebody, or throw a TV, or chuck your papers across the room the next time David Padgett misses the secondary break outlet, well, why are you in the studio? Besides, of course, your encyclopedic basketball knowledge. We don't want that! We want you to strangle something with your bare hands in a fit of red-faced rage! Is that really so much to ask?

The Big Lead True Identity Revelation of the Day: Florida

It's a classic case of They Are Who We Thought They Were. Florida had one last chance to break its way into the NCAA Tournament with a solid tourney showing (OK, an incredible tourney showing), and what did they do? Make Alabama look like the Houston Rockets, that's what. The Gators trailed 42-16 at one point, the kind of score that passes your retinas on ESPN's Bottom Line and immediately causes convulsions and hysteria. We're sure this isn't the first round of the NCAA's, right? This isn't a No. 1 vs. No. 16 game? We're positive?

I'm not sure what it is, but I wanted Florida to get it together this year. Whatever. Florida fans have had their fun. Welcome back to Earth, you lucky fools.

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