Illinos-Washington

Instances of incompetence during today's afternoon matchup:

• 
  CBS affiliates that scheduled the Illinois game for the afternoon slot and then aired the entire second half of Witchita State vs. Tennessee. Not that the latter wasn't a decent game, but by scheduling Illinois, the blacked out the San Diego pod feed, so none of the area bars (or March Madness on demand) had the first half of the Illinois game. It makes you want to go and illegally download something.
  
• The referees that called one of the more lopsided games I've seen in a good while - and I catch a fair number of Duke games. They completely stopped any rhythm the game had, and left us with a ridiculous second half free throw margin of 19 to 0 before the clock management fouls began.
  
• The Illinois offense that had some of the prettiest ball movement I've seen in years for the first ten minutes of the second half, only to abandon it for milling around and poor three point shots. I can't tell if their inability to run any sort of play out of their last two timeouts was a coaching or implementation failure, but the fact Dee Brown's couldn't even get a screen on the final play was embarassing. Not to mention Augustine's last bucket coming at the 15:04 mark.

And don't get me started on the Illini Coke ad.