For the most part, I thought that karma caught up with the Memphis Tigers last night at the free throw line. After all, Calipari said all year when hounded about free throws that "we make them when we need to." And, of course, this time they didn't.

But apparently there may have been more significant reasons why karma caught up to Memphis.

The day of the championship, a student at the University of Cornell wrote an article about how he expected Memphis to win the Tourney, but he had this extra interesting tidbit to say:
His primary focus in the article - aside from calling Calipari "a greasy sleaze" - was the criminality of the program. And let me just say, I'm impressed with Memphis' rap sheet.

Shawn Taggart and reserve player Jeff Robinson were arrested for inciting a riot outside the Plush Club in Memphis. The charges were dropped after the players completed anger management classes and the two were never suspended. Neither was starting center Joey Dorsey, who made it rain at the Plush Club just before his teammates were arrested.

Dorsey’s frontcourt chum Robert Dozier got in on the action in February when he followed his ex-girlfriend after she left the Plush Club, got out of the car he was driving in at an intersection, and proceeded to hit her twice. Dozier was suspended for one meaningless blowout game against SMU.

But back to Dorsey. Back in October 2006 Dorsey and his teammate Hashim Bailey were accused of threatening, pouring water on, and throwing water bottles at two female students. Dorsey has also apparently been in two other police reports alleging he punched someone in the face then ran away.

Dozier wasn’t the first Tiger to beat up on his girlfriend however. Back in 2005 then Memphis standout Jeremy Hunt was arrested for battering his girlfriend. Hunt went on to break his hand in a bar fight, a crime that got him kicked off the team until two Memphis players left for the NBA and Calipari brought him back on the team out of desperation.

And the author just keeps going.
I'm not going to say that other programs out there don't have somewhat similar problems, but when you step back and look at this team's rap sheet, it's pretty bad. And there's no question that Calipari has always been a huge slimeball who always seems to put winning over everything and let's pretty much anything go. I'm even predicting that we find out Derrick Rose got the Chris Webber treatment in about 3 or 4 years.

So perhaps there is such a thing as karma. Because after Memphis' loss last night, it sure looks like there is.