Can a Kentucky Player Solve a Rubik's Cube?

My personal best was 38 seconds. I haven’t done it in a couple of years, but I bet I could do it in under 2 minutes even now.

In the nicest and most respectful possible way…..Cornell (and throw in Duke and Vandy and Stanford and all the rest of the smug lot) can suck it ; ) Just for the record, I’m not anti-elite education (just a little jealous, maybe) and I’m not throwing a grenade in the culture war. Reflexively hating the well-off is no less offensive than the class snobbery that I think these comments about the “smart kids” are imbued with. BUT. They already have all the advantages in education and connections and appearances. They already have the leg up. Somehow I think these fancy school kids and their alum fans are gonna squeak by in life just fine. We state schoolers get basketball domination, ‘kay? It’s only fair. They get the rarefied college experience and the corner office, and in return we get athletic scholarships in order to offer college to basketball geniuses many of whom wouldn’t get to go to college otherwise, so that we may beat the slow 5’11" “smart” kids down on the basketball court. It is only right. I always thought the remark about how rooting for the biggest, most dominant programs (such as Kentucky) was like rooting for General Electric is crap…..rooting for the Ivy League or the wannabe Ivy exclusive private schools is like rooting for GE or maybe Enron is a more apt modern example. Public schoolers all the way!

if cal thinks he can motivate using the rubik’s cube, he will find a way to work it in :)

My son, a summa-cum-laude graduate of UNC (cough, cough) could solve a Rubik’s Cube in no time flat. He’s also 5’10" , has his mom’s small hands, and last played organized basketball as a sophomore in HS . The talking heads (and Bilas, while I generally like his comments, is a brainiac Dukie, lest we forget, and those kinds of guys hang together) would do better to stick to how the teams play basketball and leave out kids’ puzzles.