Arizona Wildcats find the "Zone" and crush the Blue Devils

If you're an Arizona basketball fan, chances are you will be up for a while tonight, after watching your Wildcats not just beat...but crush the Duke Blue Devils, 93-77, at the Honda Center in Anaheim.

Chances are you'll have a tough time going to sleep...and why wouldn't you? You just witnessed the greatest game in the history of Arizona basketball. Well, maybe I shouldn't go quite that far. There was this game back in 1997 that comes to mind, but let me just say, what I saw in 40 minutes of basketball tonight, was truly remarkable.

The fact the Wildcats rolled over the defending national champions was one thing, but how they did it, is another story. First of all, Derrick Williams puts on a show in the first half of the Sweet Sixteen matchup by scoring 25 of Arizona's 38 points and single handily kept his team in the game as Duke clings to a six-point lead at the break. Then, in the second half, Williams and his teammates find a "zone" and outscore the Blue Devils 55-33 and amazingly walk away with a 16-point win that is still being dissected by the sports announcers on the East Coast.

They're probably saying, at this point: Who are those guys?

Well, come to attention you biased hound dogs. The guy doing the dunking is Derrick Williams, the Pac-10 Player of the Year. And then there's that little guard MoMo Jones, who hails from up your way. Those other guys who are running up and down the court and taking the air out of the Blue Devils are: Solomon Hill, Kevin Parrom, Jamelle Horne, Kyle Fogg, Jesse Perry, Brendon Lavender, Jordin Mayes and a big fella named Kyryl Natyazhko.

And now it is on to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight for the Arizona Wildcats. At 30 wins and seven losses, don't you think it is about time you give the Wildcats some respect? Charles Barkley tried his best to clue you eastern boys in at the halfway point of the game.

And now you know the rest of the story.