Well, it’s that time again. Here’s my 2005 list of my favorite things I read and listened to this past year. I only read one fiction book this year, but I have several fiction books I hope to read in the coming year. I also didn’t read as much this year. With back surgery, then moving back to Little Rock from Alabama, and various other reasons, I just didn’t read as much as I wanted. I actually have several partially read books that I don’t anticipate finishing before year end. So, with that said, here’s my list for this year.

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Book of the Year

• Seizing Your Divine Moment : Dare to Live a Life of Adventure - Erwin McManus

Runners-up

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families : Stories from Rwanda - Philip Gourevitch
• God’s Politics : Why the right gets it wrong and the left doesn’t get it - Jim Wallis
• The Barbarian Way : Unleash the Untamed Faith Within - Erwin McManus
• Blue Blood : Duke-Carolina : Inside the Most Storied Rivalry in College Hoops - Art Chansky
• Obsessed - Ted Dekker

Honorable Mention

• Making Sense of Church: Eavesdropping on Emerging Conversations about God, Community, and Culture - Spencer Burke
• The Gutter : Where Life’s Meant To Be Lived - Craig Gross
• The Church of Irresistible Influence : Bridge-Building Stories To Help Reach Your Community - Robert Lewis
• A Fragile Stone : The Emotional Life of Simon Peter - Michael Card

Other stuff I read

• It Takes A Village Idiot : Complicating the Simple Life - Jim Mullen
• flashbang : How I Got Over Myself - Mark Steele
• EPIC - John Eldredge
• I’m Back For More Cash - Tony Kornheiser
• Home Court Advantage : Preparing Your Children to be Winners in Life - Kevin Leman
• Eyes Wide Open : Looking for God in Popular Culture - William Romanowski

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Album of the Year

• I See Things Upside Down - Derek Webb

Runners-up

• Reflection Of Something - Todd Agnew
• Nothing Is Sound - Switchfoot
• A Collision - David Crowder Band
• Ogre Tones - King’s X
• X&Y - Coldplay
• All To You - Lincoln Brewster
• Eternity With You - Clay Crosse

Honorable Mention

• Brave - Nichole Nordeman
• …And The Rest Will Follow - Project 86
• Panic - MxPx
• The Art of Breaking - Thousand Foot Krutch
• Wherever You Are - Third Day
• Restored - Jeremy Camp
• Atom Bomb - Blind Boys of Alabama
• Worship In The City - Grace Church Worship Band
• Redemption Songs - Jars of Clay
• Farewell - Petra

Other stuff I listened to

• Death on the Road - Iron Maiden
• Look To You - Hillsong United
• Strong Tower - Kutless
• For All You’ve Done - Hillsong
• The Great Depression - Blindside
• All The Right Reasons - Nickelback
• Better Days - Robbie Seay Band
• Passion 05 : How Great Is Our God - Passion Worship Band
• mmhmm - Relient K
• Day of Fire - Day of Fire
• Dirty Diamonds - Alice Cooper
• In Christ Alone - ZOE Group

I think it was Solomon who said “Everything is meaningless.” That pretty much describes the college bowl season for the most part. Since they created 243 bowl games at the end of the season and created the BCS, they’re all meaningless. There’s no watching multiple games to see who will win and lose, and who will end up ranked #1. There’s only one game now that matters at all, and that is the championship game - which I’m looking forward to this year because I think it might actually be a game instead of another blowout.

However, this year there was one other game that I was interested in, because I thought it, too, would be a good game to watch. And if you’re an LSU fan, it was. That game was the Peach Bowl tonight - LSU vs Miami. Two good teams, you expect a good game. Unfortunately, it was a 40-3 blowout by LSU. Miami drove all the way down the field on their first drive, and then didn’t show up for the rest of the game. They didn’t have a first down the last 40 minutes of the game. That’s just sad. Plus, they couldn’t stop LSU. LSU was scoring at will.

So, I was wanting LSU to win, so that was good, but I still was looking forward to a better game. Once again, though, just another meaningless game.

This post is not the sports year in review according to me. Duke did not win the national championship in basketball in 2005, so there’s really nothing to review. However, much funnier than anything I would write is the sports year in review according to The Onion. So here are some highlights, links and other Onion sports headlines.

First is The Onion’s 2005 Year In Review - Individual Sports. It wasn’t as humorous to me, since I’m not into individual sports except for tennis, but there was one highlight:

Dec. 13 - Power forward Ron Artest, formerly of the Indiana Pacers, announces his intention to play basketball all by himself for the rest of his career.

And the highlights from the 2005 Year In Review - Team Sports:

Apr. 5 - The Baylor women’s basketball team defeats Michigan State to win the NCAA women’s championship, showing the nation and their own university what a Baylor team can do when it works hard, plays as a team, and does not conspire to murder one another.

Aug. 1 - Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Tice makes a preseason promise that the character and behavior of the players on this years’ team will soon make the fans forget the shameful off-field antics of Randy Moss. (my personal favorite)

Oct. 17 - NBA Commissioner David Stern announces that he is implementing an especially strict dress code for himself, including tailored Italian suits, handmade silk ties, custom-crafted leather shoes, and wafer-thin gold or platinum Patek Philippe watches. Financial aid is made available to allow less-affluent commissioners to conform to the new rules, violation of which is punishable by three weeks off with pay.

Nov. 27 - Punter Jeff Feagles becomes football’s “Iron Man,” having played every fourth down of 283 consecutive NFL games. When asked to comment on the difficulty of such a streak, former Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. asked reporters who Jeff Feagles was, snorting derisively, shaking his head, and sauntering aimlessly away upon finding out Feagles is a punter.

Dec. 8 - Anxiety for the 2006 World Cup begins early for the United States, who cross their fingers before the seeding and pray they are not matched up against a soccer-mad powerhouse European, South American, Asian, or African team in the first round. Feelings are mixed but generally gloomy when their first opponent turns out to be the Czech Republic.

Dec. 11 - The Houston Texans, searching desperately for a way to improve and threatened by the potential for awfulness displayed by the Green Bay Packers, voluntarily forfeit the remainder of the 2005 season in order to draft Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush of USC.

Dec. 12 - USC Trojans running back Reggie Bush announces that he has done much soul-searching and has decided to stay in school in order to complete his college degree, lead the Trojans to another national championship, and avoid playing for the Houston Texans.

Now, some other stories and headlines I found hilarious:

Threat Of Catching Olympic Fever At An All-Time Low

Terrell Owens Pre-Emptively Disparages Next Contract

Quarterback Has Normal, Healthy Son

NBA Playoffs Interrupted By NBA Preseason (my personal favorite)

Pony-Wanting Ron Artest To Be On Best Behavior Till Christmas

Joe Namath Guarnatees He’ll Lose Battle With Alcoholism

And a few headlines from the sports ticker:

Several Gearing Up For 2006 Winter Olympics

NFL To Fine First Team To Beat Colts

Pacifist Linebacker Dodges NFL Draft

Jerry Rice’s 8-year-old Son: ‘Playing Catch With My Dad Is The Most Stressful Part Of My Day’

Scottie Pippen’s Retired Jersey Number Hung Directly Behind Michael Jordan’s (my personal favorite)

Eagles Fans Long For Days When Inevitable Playoff Elimination Happened During Playoffs

So, there you have it. Hopefully, this time next year I’ll be writing an entire “year in review” post on the 4th national championship won by the Duke Blue Devils.

Joseph, son of Jacob, soon-to-be husband of Mary, first appears in the first chapter of Matthew, when, after finding out that Mary was pregnant, is considering what to do next. 

The birth of Jesus took place like this. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. Before they came to the marriage bed, Joseph discovered she was pregnant. (It was by the Holy Spirit, but he didn’t know that.) Joseph, chagrined but noble, determined to take care of things quietly so Mary would not be disgraced.

While he was trying to figure a way out, he had a dream. God’s angel spoke in the dream: “Joseph, son of David, don’t hesitate to get married. Mary’s pregnancy is Spirit-conceived. God’s Holy Spirit has made her pregnant. She will bring a son to birth, and when she does, you, Joseph, will name him Jesus - “God saves’ - because he will save his people from their sins.” This would bring the prophet’s embryonic sermon to full term:

Watch for this - a virgin will get pregnant and bear a son; They will name him Emmanuel (Hebrew for “God is with us”).

Then Joseph woke up. He did exactly what God’s angel commanded in the dream: He married Mary. But he did not consummate the marriage until she had the baby. He named the baby Jesus.

Matthew 1:18-25 (The Message)

We are given no words from Joseph’s mouth in scripture. We are only given a little information about him at all, and nothing after a few events related to Jesus’ birth, his first year or two, and then once when he was twelve. I’ve sometimes wondered what he really thought about all of this. Most of the time we see him in Matthew and Luke, he’s being spoken to by an angel. “It’s okay - marry her.” “Go to Egypt.” “Okay, you can come back now.” But nothing is recorded to tell us what Joseph said in response, or what he might have been thinking in response. All we know is that he obeyed.

I guess it’s natural that, being male, I wonder more about Joseph than Mary. I think of my own reaction. Or at least I try. The incarnation is impossible for me to fully understand, so trying to fathom being chosen to be the father of God while he’s living on earth as one of us is also mind-blowing. Two modern Christmas songs give a voice to Joseph, expressing what could have been some of his thoughts during this time.

Michael Card’s “Joseph’s Song” has Joseph wondering “how can it be” that I’m holding the Son of God in my arms. “How can I, just a man, be excected to raise a King, the very Son of God?? Even so, while he’s not my biological child, I pray that I will love him like my own.” Michael Card is one of my favorite songwriter’s, and this is one of my favorites of his. Joseph was, I suspect, no different than any other man. If he were to ask questions, I suspect they would be something like these, the very ones we would think to ask, too.

The group 4 Him also recorded a song which ponders Joseph’s response to the incarnation itself. In “A Strange Way To Save The World”, the writers have Joseph (as the title would suggest) questioning why God chose to come in such an unusual way. “If he had come in a way more appropriate for the King of Kings, the Lord of the universe, then there would’ve been no need for an inn or a manger. Shepherds wouldn’t have been notified first. And there wouldn’t even have been a need for common folks like Mary and myself. But who am I to question God’s methods?” Again, more things that I probably would’ve wondered about as well.

It probably didn’t make sense to Joseph. It doesn’t make sense to me - God leaving heaven to come to earth, and especially in the manner he chose to do so. It doesn’t make sense for a man to be father to the one who’s Father is God. But it happened, and as strange as it was, we are saved because He came. God was with us.

These songs are among my very favorite songs related to the birth of Christ.

Joseph’s Song words & music by Michael Card   How could it be this baby in my arms Sleeping now, so peacefully The Son of God, the angel said How could it be Lord I know He’s not my own Not of my flesh, not of my bone Still Father let this baby be The son of my love Father show me where I fit into this plan of yours How can a man be father to the Son of God Lord for all my life I’ve been a simple carpenter How can I raise a king, How can I raise a king He looks so small, His face and hands so fair And when He cries the sun just seems to disappear But when He laughs it shines again How could it be

A Strange Way To Save The World words & music by Dave Clark, Mark Harris & Don Koch   I’m sure he must have been surprised At where this road had taken him ‘Cause never in a million lives Would he have dreamed of Bethlehem. And standing at the manger He saw with his own eyes The message from the angel come to life. And Joseph said… Why me, I’m just a simple man of trade? Why Him with all the rulers in the world? Why here inside this stable filled with hay? Why her, she’s just an ordinary girl? Now, I’m not one to second guess What angel’s have to say. But this is such a strange way to save the world. To think of how it could have been If Jesus had come as He deserved. There would have been no Bethlehem No lowly shepherds at His birth. But Joseph knew the reason the love Had to reach so far And as he held the Savior in his arms He must have thought… Why me, I’m just a simple man of trade? Why Him with all the rulers in the world? Why here inside this stable filled with hay? Why her, she’s just an ordinary girl? Now, I’m not one to second guess What angel’s have to say. But this is such a strange way to save the world. Now, I’m not one to second guess What angel’s have to say. But this is such a strange way to save the world. This is such a strange way, Such a strange way, Such a strange way To save the world.

Okay, here’s the deal: I’m really tired of all of the nonsense about “Happy Holidays” vs “Merry Christmas.” Why? Because it’s stupid.

It seems to get worse every year. I mentioned in a recent post some news stories regarding certain retail stores choosing “Happy Holidays” over “Merry Christmas”, others choosing to not allow the Salvation Army outside of their stores, and the President sending out cards using “holiday” instead of “Christmas”. And of course, Christians all over the country are bent out of shape about these things, including boycotting certain stores. It seems that some people feel that it is our right - as Christians, or as Americans, or maybe both - to have “Merry Christmas” and reminders of Jesus’ birth visible everywhere we go. The idea seems to be that people should be forced to recognize Christmas (as a religious holiday) whether they want to or not.

Now, I’ll admit - I don’t get it from the other side, either. I don’t know why people are so intent on removing Merry Christmas. The fact is, Christmas is as much a secular holiday as a religious one, perhaps more so. The average person, at the mention of Christmas, probably thinks of Santa Claus, decorated trees and gift-giving before the birth of Jesus comes to mind. So I personally don’t understand why people would be so offended by it to begin with. If I walked into Best Buy and saw a “Happy Hannakuh” sign, I simply wouldn’t care.

Also, I realize it’s a cultural thing, too. Whether religious or secular, most middle-aged and older folks in this country grew up with Christmas all around them in December. Christmas trees, decorations, Santa and reindeer - it was all there. And if some of that is taken away, or toned down to some degree, it just doesn’t seem right. Christmas has changed. But that’s not really what the boycotters are objecting to - they say that Christ is being taken out of Christmas. It’s a religious issue.

My question is this, though: from a Christian perspective, what do these things really mean? How is the church’s mission impacted by them? Nobody is telling churches to stop celebrating Jesus’ birth. If Wal-Mart fails to display “Merry Christmas” banners, if the Salvation Army isn’t ringing their (exceptionally annoying) bells outside of Target, and if their employees, as well as the President, don’t wish us a merry Christmas, are we destined for failure? Are large numbers of people coming into a relationship with Christ at local discount retailers every December that I’m unaware of? What is the message of Christmas, anyway - “God with us” or “Merry Christmas from Wal-Mart”? Whose job is it to recognize and celebrate Jesus’ birth and share His story with others - Target or the church?

I suspect most people going shopping in December aren’t looking for Jesus. They’re looking for stuff to buy, and on occasion they’re fighting one another to do so. Again, as I said in the earlier post, don’t we have better things to do than complain and boycott? More important things to do? Is it any wonder we so often have a bad image among unbelievers?

Instead of spending so much time and energy making our objections over holiday policies known to retailers, maybe we should be spending that time and energy making Jesus known to the world, and doing so without embarrassing him.

I just finished watching the Texas - Tennessee game. No, not football. That would normally be a good game, although this year would’ve likely been a Texas blowout. That’s pretty much what I expected on the basketball court today, too. The basketball Horns were #2 just a week ago before being blown out by #1 Duke on national television. So, I expected them to come back against an unranked Tennesee team today and run them out of Austin. Instead, they were blown out again. Not quite as bad - only 17. But they were down as many as 25, and 20+ during most of the 2nd half. Texas ranking will drop like a rock this week. They need to get it together fast - they have to go to Memphis to play a very good Tiger team on January 2nd. They can’t afford to lose all of their big games this preseason. Is Rick Barnes coaching them, or Mack Brown??  

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Long Journey Home  

There’s a good article on U2 by Paul Mitchel worth reading here at Charles Colson’s BreakPoint site.

After watching It’s A Wonderful Life and Miracle On 34th Street this week, I was thinking about my favorite movies that always show up this time of year. So, I decided to list my favorite holiday movies - well, I’m not limiting this strictly to movies, but am also including the Christmas specials you see on television every year as well. (By the way, I chose 7 because that’s my favorite number.) These are the shows everyone should watch every year, in my opinion. I’ve seen all except one so far this year. 

7. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
The Grinch was (and still is) a little creepy, but this was always fun to watch. He’s angry, mean, maybe evil, and he does everything he can to stop the Who’s from enjoying Christmas. But he realizes, as they arise and sing on Christmas morning, that Christmas isn’t about all of the gifts or food or decorations, and he is transformed. And for some reason I’ve always loved the song that the Who’s sing at the end on Christmas morning.

6. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
I loved this one as a child, even though the Abominable Snowman always frightened me when I was very young. I remember how great I always thought it was to see the reindeer and sleigh take off at the end with Rudolph leading the way. He was different, and an outcast, but they all found out that he had something to offer after all. I love watching my kids watch it now.

5. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
You can’t help but feel sympathy for Charlie Brown. But as he struggles with the meaning of Christmas and it’s commercialism, Linus comes through with a fantastic scene where he recites the Christmas story from scripture. One of my favorite Christmas program moments.

4. Miracle on 34th street (1947)
Crazy old man thinks he’s Santa Claus. A woman and her little girl don’t believe in Santa Claus. A good story about believing, having faith - even when it goes against common sense.

3. A Christmas Story (1983)
Darren McGavin and Peter Billingsley are both just fantastic in this movie. I remember a few years back it seemed It’s A Wonderful Life played every day during December, and they finally cut it back. Now it’s this movie that seems to be on constantly. And I’ll sit and watch at least part of it every time I find it on.

2. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
My favorite Chevy Chase movie will always be Fletch. But this is certainly one of his very best, and better than the other Vacation movies as well. There’s nothing quite like Christmas with the Griswald’s.

1. It’s A Wonderful life (1946)
You just can’t get any better than this. I’ve actually not seen many Jimmy Stewart movies, but I can’t imagine him being any better than he was in this one. He thought he was poor, with the money having disappeared, but realizes he’s rich in the things that really matter. Even more so than he imagined. My favorite line is still at the end: “To my brother George, the richest man in town.”

I watched the documentary on the DVD this year and learned that this didn’t really become a classic until the early 70’s (it was largely forgotten about after it left theaters in the late-40’s). When the copyright ran out, stations could show it all they wanted without paying royalty’s, so it started getting a lot of airtime, and now we can’t imagine Christmas without it.

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Getting ready for 2006  

Check out Greg Taylor’s post regarding some tools to use in 2006. All 3 of his suggestions look like very good resources.

One of the things I’ve learned in the last six-and-a-half years is that your children can ask really hard questions. Sometimes that’s because they are questions you don’t know the answer to. Sometimes it’s because it’s difficult to explain the answer to them in a way that they will understand. Then there are questions like the one I was asked last night.

It was one of those times where you have to answer a question that you just don’t want to answer. I was sitting there merrily watching Miracle On 34th Street and my 6-year-old daughter was busy with her crayons and a coloring book. She was only halfway paying attention to the movie, but it was just enough to ask the question I didn’t want to hear. As best as I can recall, she’d never asked this question before, at least not to me.

The movie, of course, is about a man who presents himself as the one-and-only Santa Claus and those around him trying to determine what they believe about him. My daughter asked a few questions from time to time: “Is that Santa Claus?”, “Is he really Santa?”, “Why isn’t he wearing his [Santa] clothes?” and things of that nature. I guess I should’ve seen it coming, and maybe I did, but was hoping that it wouldn’t.

There are several occasions where the characters are discussing the existence of Santa Claus and whether this man calling himself Kris Kringle is actually him. During one of those scenes, may daughter finally did it, looking over at me and dropping this baby on me:

“Daddy, is there really a Santa Claus?”

Have you seen those commercials where people do something stupid and the voice-over says, “Ever want to just get away?” or something like that? Well, I hadn’t done anything stupid, but I did want to get away. I was hoping for a reprieve - the phone would ring, the electricity would go out, Jesus would come back - something, anything, to avoid answering the question.

Technically, there is (or was) a Saint Nicolas. So if I answered yes, I would sort of be telling the truth. The man from which the Santa Claus legend grew was, in fact, real. However, the Santa Claus legend we know today is just that - a legend. There’s not really a man flying all over the world in a sleigh led by reindeer who leaves presents at everyone’s home. So to answer the question she was asking, the answer had to be no.

So, I paused briefly, and then I reluctantly nodded my head. “There is??” she asked excitedly, trying to hold back a smile until I confirmed it again. I nodded again. She then went back to coloring, grinning from ear to ear. I went back to watching the movie but not feeling very good about telling her something that wasn’t true.

I grew up believing in Santa Claus. And the Easter Bunny. And the Tooth Fairy (who, incidentally, had just paid a visit to our house two nights earlier.) My parents let me believe. Perhaps I asked them the same question at some point, and maybe they answered the same way I did. However, Christmas with Santa Claus was a lot of fun - anxiously waiting for the day to arrive, finding it impossible to sleep on Christmas Eve, and then discovering the gifts under (or at least near) the tree the next morning. I finally discovered the truth one year when, because I suspected I knew the truth already, I crept out of my bedroom, down the hallway, and into the kitchen - just enough so that I could see into our living room - where I saw my mother stuffing our stockings. Aaaa-haaaa!!

It was not really a big disappointment by that time. I didn’t flee the house, running out into the winter’s night lamenting the fact that there was no Santa Claus, or jump out and angrily expose my parent’s deception, or think less of them for “lying” to me all of those years. I just went back to bed, now knowing for certain the truth about Santa. I think it was actually a bigger disappointment for my oldest sister, who tried to convince me otherwise. I am the youngest of four, so I was the last one to stop believing. When I stopped, the Santa charade was over at our house (until we started having our own kids.) She still enjoyed it, I suppose, and wanted it to continue. But I would have none of it.

In the end, I guess I look at it this way: I grew up believing these things, and I turned out pretty normal (or at least that’s my opinion - others may dispute that.) I’m intelligent enough to realize this was a fun part of being a child and I don’t have any “emotional scars” because of it. I trust that my children will be smart enough to understand this as well, and someday will be up late on Christmas Eve arranging presents around the tree for their own children, eating the cookies and milk along the way.

The thing that I’m trying to do for my kids, which I did not hear about as often while growing up, is to share more about the real Christmas story, the one we find in Matthew and Luke. There are some things we must outgrow - Santa being one of them. Jesus, on the other hand, will always be a part of Christmas.

They say things are bigger in Texas. So I guess it was fitting that when #2 Texas lost to #1 Duke today, it was a BIG loss - to the tune of 97-66. I was just hoping for a Duke win. I’ve admitted they haven’t looked great in their last couple of games. But I thought they would definitely come to play today, and had a good chance to win. However, a 31-point win was not in my wildest dreams.A lot of people seemed to start doubting Duke a couple of weeks ago when they had a close game with unranked Drexel in the NIT semifinals. However, I thought Drexel showed they were a pretty good team in that game and in nearly beating a ranked UCLA team in the consolation game. The questions continued after Indiana’s Marco Killingsworth had a monster game against Duke (although he failed to score in last 7:30 of the game). Duke still won the game in a hostile environment. Then came Virginia Tech this past Sunday. Unranked, they basically beat Duke, but Sean Dockery’s miracle at the buzzer saved the day. And then a less-than-stellar offensive performance against Penn on Wednesday had nearly everyone outside the Duke camp expecting a Texas win this afternoon.

Including John Frascella. In his article “Duke No. 1? Not For Long”, written for the UConn Daily Campus, he attempts to break down Duke and implies they’re not worthy of being at the top right now (hmm… I wonder who he’d vote #1?). In his comments on the Indiana game, he points out that Shelden Williams was outplayed by Killingsworth and fouled out late in the game, but neglected to mention Williams’ big plays down the stretch that helped win that game. He closes his article with the following:

“Duke will need other players to step up offensively to take the pressure off Redick and Williams. Duke plays No. 2 Texas this weekend - expect a changing of the guard at the top of the college basketball rankings.”

Let’s see… Redick had 41 today, and Williams added 23. That’s 64 points. Texas scored 66. I guess they only needed the rest of the team to step up with 3 today (but they ended up with 33 instead). I do see his point, though, and would agree they need the other guys to step up, but they are and will continue to do more so as the year goes on. Plus, they’ve been without DeMarcus Nelson - they’re #3 scorer - since the first half of the Drexel game. In time, they’ll be okay.

I was thinking this morning about how this Duke team is quite a bit different than the Duke teams of years past. How they aren’t going to be the type of team that blows everyone away like teams in years past, especially the teams from 1998-2001, who regularly ended games by halftime. And I think that’s still true, despite the fact that they DID hammer a very good team today.

A lot of people have doubted them. A lot of people questioned their #1 ranking. And they will lose games - the ACC will be as tough as usual, and they still have a few non-conference games with some good teams as well. But I think they came out today to make a statement, that despite the doubt and the questions, they are a good team worthy of being ranked where they are.

And by the way, do not expect a changing of the guard at the top of the college basketball rankings just yet.