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Kentucky just cut down the nets, but it’s time to turn the page.
Some teams can already be counted on as next season’s top contenders. Here’s an early look (with this season’s final records in parentheses):
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Louisville (30-10): Seattle’s Peyton Siva should be the Big East’s top player next season and the Cardinals bring back everyone but Kyle Kuric and Chris Smith from this season’s Final Four. Having Wayne Blackshear for a full season is a major benefit.
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Indiana (27-9): The Hoosiers bring back every top scorer — as long as Christian Watford and Cody Zeller decide to play in Bloomington another season. The Hoosiers could be aiming at a national title.
Duke (27-7): Losing Austin Rivers to the NBA hurts, but the Blue Devils return Seth Curry, Andre Dawkins and Ryan Kelly.
Georgetown (24-9): Jason Clark and Henry Sims are gone, but the rest of the Hoyas return. Forwards Hollis Thompson and Otto Porter should emerge in their roles.
Michigan State (29-8): Perhaps no loss in college basketball hurts more than the Spartans’ loss of Draymond Green. The Spartans still have coach Tom Izzo, Branden Dawson and a top-10 recruiting class.For now, the Seattle Mariners believe a proposal to build a new NBA/NHL arena in Seattle needs to find a different home.
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The Mariners sent a formal letter to the city and county officials on Tuesday opposing the idea of a new multipurpose arena in the same neighborhood as the Mariners home of Safeco Field.
“The proposed SODO location, in our view, simply does not work,” Mariners chairman Howard Lincoln wrote. “It would bring scheduling, traffic and parking challenges that would likely require hundreds of millions of dollars to mitigate. We doubt that an arena could succeed financially at this location, given mitigation costs and necessary scheduling limitations. Without highly restrictive scheduling limitations, traffic gridlock would put all of the area’s teams at risk.”
