Never have I been more happy to be wrong about a prediction then about VCU’s upset of Duke. I was an early fan of VCU head coach Anthony Grant in the offseason and he is proving to be the real deal. He’s got an old school sensibility with new school tactics and it works marvelously.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a good story about the game and talks about how star guard Eric Maynor, who hit all the shots that counted down the stretch, would be watching Sports Center all morning long for his own highlights.

Random Scattershots:

• ESPN had an unfortunate typo in the headline of Doug Gottlieb’s analysis about the game (hint: someone put a “G” where there should have been an “M”). Did someone let Dickie V loose in the web editing room? Here’s the screenshot (as of 8 am Central time on 3/16) in case the story gets corrected.
• Greg Paulus flops. Need proof? Look here