2011-2012 Impact Freshmen: #8 Khem Birch

Today's impact Freshmen is penis the second Canadian that we've seen. Khem Birch spent this year in the same state is the NSHL for a prep year at Notre Dame Prep. The 6'9 Canadian Colossus is the best defensive big man in this class hands down. Rivals put Birch in the 2012 rankings for some reason and have him as number 4 there. ESPN has him at the 11 spot. Birch is an absolute animal on defense and a beast on the boards. The Pittsburgh signee will flourish in the transition game and is extremely effective cutting to the hoop. I picture Birch as a smaller Hasheem Thabeet that actually has skill on offense to back it up. I just hope Khem won't foul anyone off a free throw with a second left in the game and the lead.

NCAA Chaos!

bWell for those who didn't watch Butler against Pitt, you missed the craziest game arguably in NCAA history. Butler scored to be up by one with under two seconds left and Shelvin Mack makes a bone head foul to bring Pitt to the line. Pitt makes the first one and misses the second. On the miss, Matt Howard rebounded the ball and with under a second left was idiotically fouled as he was turning to throw a hail mary. For the second game in a row Matt Howard scored the winning points for Butler. Howard was crucial in Butler's run last year along with lottery pick Gordan Hayward. People may think that the last foul cost Pitt the game, but if they hit the second free throw the whole scenario would have changed, and I don't think Butler would be moving on.

Doesn't Obama have bigger issues than making a Bracket?

I know the man loves basketball and this is kind of interesting but come on. I mean we have tsunamis in japan and a horrible economy and the leader of the free world is making a bracket.

His final four is OSU, Kansas, Pitt and Duke

His National Champion is Kansas.

"Kansas has more firepower," Obama said. Well that doesn't mean you win. I mean we are still in Afghanistan and Iraq right???

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