Lorenzo Romar said he’s disappointed after losing two top-10 national recruits who committed to Washington, spurning the Huskies and signing with Kentucky.  See Story.

Did the Huskies really have a chance? Now that their run has ended and they are back on campus and Isaiah Thomas is tweeting full-time (he is out having fish somewhere), it’s time for a light touch to begin the healing. Could it be the mascot?

There is a long shot, with the accent on long, that the University of Texas and the University of Washington could meet in the NCAA tournament. If that happened, it would be in the East Regional Finals. But for that to happen and bring high-school teammates Avery Bradley of Texas and Abdul Gaddy of the Huskies to the same floor at the same time, each team must win three games and therein lies the problem.

Texas, with an 8 seed starts off against (9) Wake Forest. If the Longhorns win, they will face likely face Kentucky, the No. 1 seed in their bracket who opens against E. Tennesee State. If they were to win that, they would have a pretty fair shot against either Wisconsin or Temple. That’s their road, unless other upsets occur.

The Huskies face Marquette out of the box and if they were to win that, they are probably looking at New Mexico, then either Clemson or West Virginia.

Marquette is probably the key game for the Huskies, if they continue playing well on the road, something that hurt them earlier this season, they could ride that win to the East finals the weekend of March 27-28. Obviously, Texas would have to play its best game of the season to upend Kentucky. If they did and the Huskies hold up their bottom end of the bracket, the Bradley-Gaddy matchup could happen. Seems like much stranger things have happened in the NCAA tournament.