Playoff Power Rankings

You know what's sad?  I'll tell you what's sad.  Basketball intramurals playoffs are here and that means the season is over this week.  That also means that this blog traffic will die down again.  Thanks Demion and Drew for checking multiple times a day if I have posted anything about your squads.  This year's intramurals were defined by stupit and spectacular play.  I truly have no idea who will win this whole thing.  What I do know is that these next few days of basketball are going to be so incredible that you will be telling your children and your children's children what happened the week before spring break in 2012.  Now lets rank these teams.

1.  The Maroon Squad.
Last week was a great week for this Maroon squad and they are entering Championship Week with all the momentum.  The only team that has beat them this year had to have a Kobe Bryant performance to even beat them by a few points.  You have all heard the saying offense wins games but defense wins championships.  Well Maroon has given up the least amount of points during this season (actually this stat was taken before they played their last game yesterday...so of course they have given up the least cause they had played one less game...the point is they play pretty good D ok).  Last week they played the Orange team and pretty much did whatever they wanted.  They are the #1 seed in these playoffs for a reason.  This team will play the winner of Purple vs Yellow that will take place tonight in the Thunderdome at 5:30.  This team doesn't have any holes.  You have to outplay these guys to win the game.

2.  The Gray Squad
To quote Dennis Green these guys are who we thought they were.  They lost to the Maroon squad by a point and they want nothing more then to beat them in the championship game.  This group of Late Night All Stars is starting to gel at the right time.  This team also beat the Orange team last week by double digits (Hey!  The Orange team lost alot last week...what of it!)  If your team is playing Gray you need to pick your poison.  Do you want Boomer to go off on you?  Do you want to risk them catching fire from the arc?  Do you want Demion to slice up your D like a ginsu?  Do you want Aaron Stanley to pump fake you and then hit an obscene fadeaway?  Pick your poison my friend.  Choose wisely.

3.  The Orange Squad
Let's be honest the Orange Squad got what some people might call exploited last week.  They played three games vs the top teams and only won 1.  If Orange was thinking about getting to the Championship game then they needed to play well last week.  Now the Orange team is faced with many questions.  Are they going to be able to get points in the paint?  Are they going to be able to stop anyone? (Orange plays the worst D...this isn't an opinion this is a fact...most points allowed...geez)  But the question that is on most everybody's mind is Will Micah's boss let him off work this week.  In both of their losses last week they were missing key players in the starting lineup.  I have a feeling that this team has too much pride to go out like some chumps.  Or maybe they are some chumps.

4.  The Yellow Squad
Let me paint a picture for you.  There is a team that is underrated for most the season.  They lose some games and enter the playoffs not really scaring anyone.  They take out the best team in the league in the second round of the playoffs and then head to the championship game as underdogs.  They put a clown suit on the other team in the championship game and win going away.  Sound familiar to you?  Well it should because that is what the Yellow team did last year.  They could very well do it again.  Except this time I don't think people are going to sleep on J Hen's squad.  Kyle Latterell has a nick name for J Hen.  He calls him the J Train.  His theory is that you can't let the J Train leave the station.  Because when the J Train leaves the station what happens is this...choo choo.  Yellow has to beat a hungry purple team to advance.

5.  The Navy Squad
This squad has gotten better through out the year.  In their last game they came back from 17 down to bring it within one shot of tying the game.  Out of all the freshman squads that Union has had this is one of them.  You see what I did there?  Don't be surprised if this squad upsets the third ranked Orange team tonight in the Thunderdome at 6:30.

6.  The Purple Squad
Part of me thinks this squad did not live up to its expectations this year and lost interest in the season after the third game.  And the other part of me thinks that this whole thing has been an elaborate set up and we are about to get hustled by this squad.  This squad reminds me of the scene in "The Color of Money" Forrest Whitaker Hustles Paul Newman.  I have a question for you purple squad...are you a hustler?

7.  The Light Blue Squad.
If we can learn anything from this squad this year it's this.  Don't pick the color light blue.  You saw what it did to my squad in the championship game last year and you saw what it did this year.  That color is cursed!

I really don't know who is going to win this mug.