2010 ncaa

john wall debut anticipation?

The Harrison Barnes press conference was hilarious.

link?

I can't find it. I can only find the Q&A afterwards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZDYLZlRwq4

Before this, he spent ages going through the strengths and weaknesses of each prospective team before ultimately introducing Roy Williams via Skype, and the crowd roared.

Look at all the placards!

Thursday should be fun - Tobias Harris is supposed to announce, then North Carolina/Ohio State and Cal/Syracuse at MSG, with winners and losers getting each other the next night.

As a Syracuse fan, this is about as stoked as I've ever been four games into the season.

xxxxxxxx (9:33:25 PM): lol something called lemoine college just beat syracuse in bball
xxxxxxxx (9:34:42 PM): their mascot is a dolphin

haha

missed u bill raftery

dude how old is this butler coach??

this kentucky/unc game is good

xp lol the butler coach does look like he belongs in middle school

Roy Williams loses his cool, has heckling fan ejected

lame

gat damn usc got raped for its one year of oj mayo.

i wonder when this will happen to kentucky

I'm sure everyone does it. Just in this case this one dude had a big ass mouth on some radio show or something and spilled the beans.

Will be interesting to see if something similar happens to the sc football program..

The theory goes that USC voluntarily imposed the self-sanctions on the basketball program to give the NCAA the appearance that they are policing themselves, to try and deflect NCAA scrutiny from the football program, in the hopes that the claim "we're handling it internally" will be acceptable. USC could have done even worse to its basketball team without much long-term damage, but if the football team received serious penalties, it'd just about kill their athletic department.

Granted, I follow some extremely embarrassing UCLA fansites (where they are basically convinced that everyone at USC is a cheater and a criminal), but Pete Carroll is 100x more valuable to the school than Tim Floyd ever was.

lol north carolina

they made 12 less threes than c of c & still only lost by three. haven't looked at the box score so i'm confused as to how it happened.

it happened because bobby cremins is magical, apparently

well they shot 28 more fts & outrebounded them by 20, yes plus cremins

56 fouls called so far in nova/louisville, still 5:48 to play

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/images/01/12/kentucky-cheerleaders-1958.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc9073pxyzk

ahahaha @_@

local sports anchor reports on unlikely half-court ncaa ticket prize fraud proceeds to freak out cameraman.

wow, great end in south carolina tonight. little 5'9 dude just wreckin shit

i fell asleep but that guy was superhuman against UF

can i just say that i love everything about kansas state?

1) their coach is hilariously unglued
2) they call their arena the "octagon of doom"
3) they wear purple for no apparent reason
4) they just went for it and put "k-state" on the uniforms
5) they use terrible italics block font

they're cheesy and have no tradition to speak of. it's awesome.

omg a k-state player just completed a successful classic sky hook

dude wall's lebronesque block today was @_@

whoops i slept thru this whole game

is it okay that i think that it was cooler that lebron was at the UK game than obama being at the georgetown game

jordan stop sleeping thru college basketball, this seems to be a running trend

yeah it is >:(

i watched the whole kentucky game tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaBn3cVmQo0

i didn't watch kentucky game; it was a blowout and i was watching kardashians tbh

well, i watched the senior bowl for the whole second half actually, but the first half was nice

"tebow struggles" appears to be all i need to know about that one

yerp

this guy clemente is a cock, he used to play at miami

that was a retarded shot

yooooooooooooo

wow

can't argue with that

jesus that has to be the most depressing way to end a game that i've seen in a while

OH GOODY THE X-GAMES

i know, so pissed

btw there was something really cool about that game which was both teams played as hard and as physical as they possibly could but everybody was cool with each other and there was no bullshit.

half baked & bourne ultimatum are on so everything is gonna be alright

xp yeah def, collins and pullen hugging at the end was very *aw*

loool i was also happy when half baked came on~

i couldve said this 4 wks ago but baylor is p. legit

CAN I JUST

DickieV Jayhawks will be # 1 baby thanks to the clutch play of S . Collins as they edge KSU in ot!
4 minutes ago from mobile web

^__________^

??? are you a KU fan

lol NO -- i'm a fan of old ass dick vitale being on twitter

ha ok

i assume you hate kansas then?

nah not really actually -- i pretty much like this kansas team as it stands -- but no i'm not a KU fan

as it were

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh http://bit.ly/aBgkP3

u madness

stupid, but whatevs

you should have to go .500 in yr conference to make the field imo -- more mid-majors, fewer second-tier major conference jokes plz

i only support 96 teams if they can schedule that first round such that i would be able to watch 24 straight hours of live college basketball

haha otm

this means uconn will make it!

*supports measure for one year*

hahah

http://www.formspring.me/eddavis

You say Rome wasn't built in a day, do you think we're at the Seven Kings phase of Roman History, the Roman Republican Era, or have we progressed into the Roman Imperial Era? Please at least tell me we haven't reached the invasion and fragmentation period

the hell is u talkin bout

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll43/myknsj/d34fc96f.gif

hahah yall remember when i got tons of shit for posting a suicide gif?

RIP, and texas is on its way out of the top 20

was clearly just skip bayless goin all skiiiip baaaayyleeeessss but dude was raggin on john wall today it was ridic

lol tarheels

great block by walll

he's very very good

this means uconn will make it!

― rasta batman gigolo (k3vin k.), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:53 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

may not even need a 96 team bracket now! kemba walker has stepped up majorly

*hi 5*

kemba is so shaky, he turns the ball over way too much and can't really shoot.

<3 john wall but that flex dance move is so retarded

what channel is this uk game on?

do you have notre dame on cbs? i couldn't find uk

yeah damn

just one more reason to hate notre damn

watching uconn women instead - surprisingly close game

game is on cbs for me now, uk w/in 6

tie game!

word--thx for notification!

I apologize to people who had to watch Georgetown-ND. Austin Freeman is normally better than that, but he was sick or w/e. But really in general the Hoyas have every chance of making the Final Four and every chance of losing to a 12 or a 13 seed in the first game.

you go to gtown C-L?

feel like you probably mentioned this in the med school thread

I am not sure if I mentioned it on the med school thread, since I sometimes get all paranoid and figure it is pretty easy to identify someone going by their initials from amongst a small group of students. (It really is!) But yeah I use my student section seats here to make up for the loss of my beloved Pac-10. <3 Greg Monroe and <3 Austin Freeman, though.

i haaaate georgetown - when i was a kid my basketball coach/dentist was a former syracuse basketball player (i grew up in upstate ny) and instilled a strong hoya hatred in me. now i go to uconn and root against both SU and georgetown, all love for you and the med school tho <3

It is all good as you do not like the USC Trojans. UConn still gets love from me due to the 1999 team, and Syracuse even has the ridiculous mascot + Carmelo + Jonny Flynn playing like a man last year. It is totally fun to get swept up in a current of Big East hatred during the games themselves, though. Hating on all the white three-point specialists who play hacky defense is A+ fun.

yeah i find it hard to root against syracuse becuase i was such a huge fan growing up and was so attached to that '03 championship team. last year over spring break i was in new orleans with about 60 students from my school at a volunteer shelter populated by kids from all over the country, and watching that 6-overtime game with all of them and about 30 syracuse kids was one of the most memorable sports-related moments of my life. and yes their mascot! got no problems rooting against georgetown, tho, and in fact a girl i grew up with from my highschool (class val actually) is pre-med there now and we used to talk shit about basketball to each other

i have the sound off what the hell was that old cowboy hat dude doin running around for syr ?

man i hate both these teams ~ guess i ~respect~ nova a lil more so will root 4 them

big east basketball is like nfc east football -- all the "big" match ups are totally uninspiring & redundant & i have a hard time mustering up 10% of the enthusiasm that the press does for such things

yes nice analogy otm

johnny we want nova so our win over them looks better

thats a good reason too; i just cant root 4 'cuse ever i think

novas gettin overwhelmed by the environment tho

bob knight's espn sweater is such a grandpa thing to wear

you realize the guy has worn a sweater since like 1970

i hate when espn makes up these faux-important stats for every sport like "first lefthanded point guard with 17+ points, 6+ rebounds, 4+ steals and under 2 fouls on a wednesday night since 1984" & i'm totally rolling my damn eyes at them touting "the largest on campus crowd in ncaa history" because it's obviously named as to exclude from the stats games played at neutral sites i.e. football stadiums without nothing that syracuse plays IN A FUCKING FOOTBALL STADIUM

that's all

no one anywhere cares abt the attendance shit. it's not just espn cuz the same principle applies 2 the nba allstar game in dallas

i have the sound off what the hell was that old cowboy hat dude doin running around for syr ?

the Dome Ranger

sounds like a swag crew mixtape title

how the fuck do they have us as one of the last 4 in?

big east bias

i'm kidding -- this year is a bit weird cuz the pac-10 might only get one team in & the acc is really down this year as well, so a team like uconn has a better shot of getting in w/ their record than they normally would

also SEC only has like 3 lock teams

uconn getting thumped

yeah wth

http://www.waynedixon.com/books/images/0399131493.01.jpg

mike jarvis once screamed at me during a game

i was probably 11 or 12, and they were playing miami at the old miami arena, and i was probably yelling vile stuff at him and his team, and he turned around at a time out and yelled "where are your parents?"

mike jarvis otm

there's no better time to be a heckler than ages 11-14 because you can't reasonably be attacked by anyone

altho once at UF i got made fun of for not having hit puberty

is jim calhoun above accepting an nit bid y/n

probably cuz uconn could host all the way until nyc

also it would help him create jobs for the state of connecticut, as is his dearest wish

espn4d Just guessing: I'd put the over/under on time it takes UConn to decline NIT bid at 15 seconds. Huskies look ready to be done w/ each other

will be surprised if they let dyson/walker on the bus ride home

I just found out that Seth Davis's dad is Lanny Davis, the crazy dude who used to show up on political talking head shows during the 2008 Primaries shilling for Hillary Clinton.

...I don't know what to do with that knowledge.

i am so ready for this uconn team to be done, i hope we decline the nit invite

Maybe I am just a little bit biased, but I really could not hate Andy Rautins more.

hahaha, i usually root against all white people but rautins i like, probably mostly because he got his start there before i started school & was still a big SU fan

i think because of mcnamara, white people at syracuse have a bit more leeway than others?

wtf syracuse

He is not AS bad as Eric Devendorf, but still, it is difficult to be worse than Eric Devendorf.

Also hahahahaha YES HOYA SAXA etc. I am happy Georgetown got to beat Syracuse once this year.

fuck GT tbh

cuse better hope onuaku recovers

fuck GT tbh

cuse better hope onuaku recovers

― mookieproof, Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

no fuk u

well devendorf was actually a wife beater right?

I don't think it was his wife, but he did (allegedly?) hit a woman in the face.

hard to believe, he was such a nice-looking young student-athlete

has scottie reynolds been at villanova for 10 years y/n

I think he and Harangody are both like in their late 30s at this point. Harangody even has a little freshman dude on ND who looks just like him, and is equally hateable. It's pretty horrible tbh.

PS: UCLA yeahhhhhhh we beat Arizona yeahhhhhh Cal is probably to crush us tomorrow though.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/ncaa/03/11/uconn.calhoun.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

this is gonna end well -- and by well i mean with a mid-season death

yeahhhh we all saw it coming - we're gonna suck next year too anyway, i'm just glad i'll be here for the next 3 years

dang @ ev turner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjqtJptW0Bk

I don't know anything about the NCAA but I figured tihs thread could benefit from more youtubes aight man see u

whoa gus johnson looks v. strange rocking some thick frame glasses

conf usa sans calipari at memphis is a total joke. the crowd at the BOK CENTER (lol) is v. small

w/ all the talk about pac 10/ big 10 trying to grab extra teams i keep thinking about memphis and then remember that all that shit is 100% football, and memphis barely plays football.

memphis is in a great location for football, they just have no cache being in conference usa and therefore can't compete with tennessee, bama, arkansas, mississippi schools etc when it comes to talent

kelvin lewis is ballin 11-15, 28 pts so far

gus johnson is enjoying himself

lol a houston player just said 'it's fuckin over' w/ a throat cut motion directly into the camera

uk-tenn is almost unwatchable

pretty sure i could do joe lunardi's job

purdue is down 26-4 (four!!!) with less than 5 to play in the first half

lol yea wtf purdoo

realllly hope they stay in single digits for the half

yessss

noooooo

it could be that i'm just being a cranky old man, but . . . don't these teams all kind of suck? i feel like the top ten or five teams from five or ten years ago -- not even talking like unlv 90-91 -- would rip today's top five or ten teams in half

really enjoyed that washington win

huggy

that was a good game

http://vault.ncaa.com/?tag=pageRow;pageContainer
^^ can watch all the sweet 16 games since 2000. uh, just in case you really need to watch more basketball between now and thursday.

can't believe the end of the kentucky game - missing the free throw intentionally never works

hoooooly shit

john wall leaving two huge shots short tho, damn!

wait wtf didnt the ref call a foul on that play before?? how did uk get to bring it down the floor?

miss st players are sooo tired, their big guys literally walking up and down the floor

aw well that's it

haha, wall finaly made one

that was a crazy three by wall, but his decision making sucks

miss st could still make it with this strong showing, esp since temple won today

yeah, i'd feel pretty bad for varnado if they don't make it

We got bracketz

The tourney gods gave Duke a huge sloppy blowjob.

it's gonna be hilarious when people spend this whole week hand wringing over duke's region and they lose to louisville/cal in the second round

the ncaa roundtable reminds me SO MUCH of an ilx clusterfuck thread

Duke is definitely not going to lose to Cal. Louisville, possible.

However, I CAN see Cal beating Louisville.

welp the games there arent that intriguing but it'll still be awesome i think -- i have all session passes 2 providence

AM STOKED 4 THE MADNEZZ

ps kevk i read uconn nit tix are $2 for students u shd hit that up homie

here is this for those who care:

Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg - 1st & 2nd Round at Jacksonville, FL; Regionals; Final Four at Indianapolis, IN
Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas - 1st & 2nd Round at New Orleans, LA; Regionals
Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery - 1st & 2nd Round at Providence, RI; Regionals
Gus Johnson and Len Elmore - 1st & 2nd Round at Buffalo, NY; Regionals
Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner - 1st & 2nd Round at Oklahoma City, OK
Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkel - 1st & 2nd Round at Milwaukee, WI
Tim Brando and Mike Gminski - 1st & 2nd Round at Spokane, WA
Spero Dedes and Bob Wenzel - 1st & 2nd Round at San Jose, CA

verne & raft are like 2 of my fav human beings

^^^^

yes, totally

if i was 1 to change display names id use 'considering a. katz'

he interviewed all 65 tourney coaches yesterday in fine fashion and i considered him

So, the only bracket I have filled out, and the only one I'm GONNA fill out, has a Final Four of Kansas, Kansas St., Marquette and Louisville. Marquette over K.St. in the Final.

Am I crazy?

It was weird to make a bracket considering the only games I have watched this year were Cal games. But Ohio State will defeat West Virginia for the title, you heard it here first!

Hah, figuring that 4th time's a charm for K State vs KU? But yeah, you're a little nuts. xpost

damn I probably should have watched some cal games this year

Kansas, Kansas St., Marquette and Louisville

u mad

damn I probably should have watched some cal games this year

You can watch at least one more and at most two more.

we only won the pac10 cause everyone else was horrible, right?

Yeah.

And we're going to be terrible next year because all our best players are seniors.

It's hard to say though, because they went 8-4 before conference play, and the losses were to Syracuse (1 seed), Ohio State (2 seed), Kansas (1), and New Mexico (3). But they lost 5 games in conference, and I guess that's unacceptable this year.

uh oh, "we" alert. need a ncaa tourney alum rollcall.

Cal, but also rooting hard for San Diego State.

Oh, and also St. Mary's.

Rutgers, but cheering for the Terrapins of the University of We Know How to Riot After a Duke Game (my dad and bro's alma matter).

Duke.

I name all my bracket entries J.J. Drinks Fresca.

Richmond

connecticut

;_;

Duke.

I name all my bracket entries J.J. Drinks Fresca.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:38 (1 hour ago)

Jeff,

Please do not be offended when I note that, for the remainder of the NCAA tournament, I cannot be friends with you.

This has nothing to do with you as a person, but has everything to do with your alma mater.

Sincerely,

B.L.A.M., the Marylander

more like jj drinks fresh cum

ha but seriously redick was one of the few white players i actually liked

UCLA, but also Georgetown. So at least I have something to follow this tournament.

When UCLA is not playing I tend to support the Pac-10 also, but this year that really only means Cal, because I don't like this year's Washington Huskies. Isaiah Thomas irks me, and Justin Holiday reminds me that his brother exists.

i am also not b.l.a.m.'s friend for the next few weeks

I actually didn't go to Duke, I went to NC State. However I had been a Duke fan since I was approximately 4 years old. It's required that you pick Duke or UNC before you enter Kindergarten in North Carolina.

You chose the blue pill, eh?

But not from beer. Although fans can drink beer at regular season Providence College basketball games, the NCAA prohibits alcohol sales at all of its tournament games.

the ncaa are disgusting savages. they actually do allow booze in the suites fwiw. just assume that every person u see in the crowd btwn 18-35 has smuggled in like 6 nips. i sure will have

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/sports/ncaabasketball/18gonzalez.html?ref=sports

seton hall really knows how to end a season applause.gif

i wonder if mooney would leave richmond for seton hall before kevin anderson's senior year. guy is a10 p.o.y. he may be mooneys ticket to a better program than seton hall.

some of these nit games have been pretty intense

also, groin punches

fremme jimmer fredette

Upsets right off the bat. Wheee

god damn i wish i could watch these games

Scottie Reynolds: 1-13, 0-7 3pt, 12-12 ft, 14 points

The last four minutes have been Reynolds making free throw after free throw

Watching two overtime games simultaneously on my computer is one of the finest uses of technology I have ever found. Even though it doubles my chances of seeing one of those Ivan Brothers commercials, which are for...credit cards?

Whole lotta bad acting in that commercial.

this day should be a nat'l holiday, no way around it

Robert Morris NOOOOOOO

damn bobby mo got boned on some calls~they had a jump ball call that 1 ref ran in and overtuned that wuz gay as hell

I think at this point it would almost just be relaxing to watch a blowout of a higher seed over a lower seed. Murray St and Sam Houston St are getting their Robert Morris on so far.

more nailbiters

yeah, kstate the only high high seed to get any separation so far

murray state!

Murray State is CLUTCH

that was dope

richmond has sum srs matchup probs w. samhan..fortunately he has 3 fouls

yea that murray st shot was hot

enter samhan

Weird note: First time "Sandman" by the Chordettes has ever been played at the tourney!

It is a pleasure to watch St. Mary's play.

Small schools should never be matched up against big conference schools in the first round imo. I feel guilty rooting against Richmond in this game.

Haaaaa Verne being all "let me shift into my golf voice" and then reading the Masters promo all calm and quiet.

that st marys game was a forgone conclusion. they are actually pretty comparable teams, but it was just an impossible matchup, waaaaay to big for ur to handle inside.

that is why i picked against my school in my "real" brackets. ;_;

too big

u can ttlly discredit any "analyst" that thot richmond had a prayer in that game

How were they a 7 seed?

I mean, I wouldn't assume that St. Mary's was going to win given that they'd only won one tourney game in their entire history before today.

richmond had a bunch of good wins -- they just caught a bad match up

tourney teams that richmond beat

mizzou (neutral), old dominion (home), florida (neutral), temple (home), xavier (neutral)

ha they were a 22 rpi with 5 top 50 wins and no losses out of the top 100 wins against temple xavier florida etc-- schedule waaay harder than st cupcake, they just dont match up against a 6 11..."talent"

dont worry st mary's turn will come :)

im not sayin richmond is bad but if ur job is 2 kno ncaa bball and matchups, etc.....they got outrevoubded almist single handedly by samhan

go ohio!!

The Georgetown Hoyas are who we thought they were. I am sitting in a bar on campus surrounded by very uneasy fans.

what a maddening program

feel bad for schools like g town cuz they don't even have football to look forward to

They have a football team here, although they might be the worst program in Div I-AA.

Wow, they've never played this badly for a full game.

gtown showing some signs of life.

ohio is resilient as fuck

uh dj cooper is fukkin baaaaalin

Northern Iowa from like 25 ft!

you could see that from a mile away. dude was just chilling there.

assuming oh wins, they just ttly outplayed gtown,was not a fluke at alll

Oh by no means, Ohio's ball movement was sick and their guards blew past Gtown (especially J Clark) at will.

Oh well have fun in the NBA Greg Monroe.

Still feels a lil like UCLA-Detroit Mercy from 98 or 99. Just embarassing as hell, front to back.

PNDEXTER!!!

that guy is a fucking beast

fuck my work for making me miss the best day of ncaa ever

calling in sick todays pros/cons:

pro: I live in Canada so nobody knows it's March Madness
Cons: day after st. patrick's day, kinda shady

calling in sick tomorrow:

pros: see above
cons: none!

i feel like ive been watching bball 4 10 hrs ...o wait, i have....go sdsu!

lmbo @ bruce pearl getting credit from cbs for coaching the maccabi team to a gold medal -- represent imo

damn, ohio! need a new cleveland state.

Lot of red ink on my bracket, but at least all my Elite 8 teams are still alive!

best thursday evar? still <3 u robert morris

yeah i can't remember a better thursday

i'm going to mainline college basketball after work today and who wants to bet all the games will suck

My bracket lies in ruins. RUINS.

Relaxing after work w/ WVU - Morgan State - does WVU have anyone I should be watching?

enjoying the fact that minnesota has white center named iverson.
"iverson filling up the stat sheet!"

ohio state really has a guy named dallas lauderdale

so porny

desperately needs to be a 12th man on an nba champion

btw--i need to record this for posterity--the country's leading scorer just hit a sweet three high off the glass and whoever is calling that game goes "THE BANK IS OPEN LATE TONIGHT IN SPOKANE!" on the way to commercial

am i the only one who feels like threes have been out of control in this tournament? they still need to push the line back

btw 20-20 is in play for samhan tomorrow

i'm in the 97th percentile atm but i'm fucked - i had gtown in the final four

Oh man I am sorry. I <3 Evan Turner, so I had Gtown bounced in the Sweet 16 every single time I made a bracket.

I was just watching tOSU vs. UCSB, and I saw the crazy score movement going on in Cal-Louisville and was like "Hey I should watch this, this might be interesting", and I have been rewarded with so many clanging rims. This has a chance to be Texas-Wake Forest II.

OK nm Jerome Randle just hit a SICK buzzer beater to end the first half.

louisville has the actual skill of a 14 seed

actually i had them beating su...finals :(

lol

i have ku-cuse-wvu-baylor so i'm still in play -- my big ticket number is a&m over duke in the elite 8

er, FOR the elite 8

Dallas Lauderdale's current line: 4 pts (2-2 FG), 7 rebounds, 6 blocks, 2 steals.

This game is too close for my liking.

edgar sosa's play tonight can best be described as a murder-suicide

Really gotta appreciate Louisville imploding at a critical moment in the game.

MAX ZHANG~~~~

Pac-10 reprezennnnt

Someone outside is blowing a horn.

I watched the Big East and Pac-10 more than anything else this year and would not have really guessed that the Pac-10 would go 2-0 vs the soft middle of the Big East like they did yesterday and today. I don't think that means they are gonna go any further than this weekend but still.

When I read the Villanova had the 268th best defence in the country or whatever I assumed they just played at a really fast pace, and they do, but also wow does that team not defend at all.

That was exhausting! Australia are a fun team.

yeah, luv them

if i was a villanova fan i would've thrown something thru my tv when that bank 3 went in

nova deserved 2 b out 2 days ago tho so thats justice...feel bad that smc will prob get baylor in houston

This big white dude on Butler can play.

reynolds blowing

samhan, unfortunately, will be a baller in greece or a place like that

clearly murray state are the best team from the state of murray

this rule in college basketball where the offensive player can have a basket counted and still get called for a charge if the contact happens after the ball is released is incredibly stupid

http://www.gusjohnsongetsbuckets.com/

awesome

I realllllly liked the end of that Butler game. The poor Murray St dude is gonna have to live with the thought of that trap getting closer and closer and finally swatting the ball away for the rest of his life, though.

wow ali is going in

Kansas is down 10.

isiah thomas is awesome

wow ku looks like garbage

ali farokmanesh is having the best nowrouz EVER

sherron collins with maybe the most dramatic murder-suicide of the tournament this far -- edgar sosa and scottie reynlods are appreciative

god sherron is playing like dogshit

Man, the left side of the bracket is going to be pure chaos.

Come onnnnn Northern Iowa.

Big three right there!

refs are rolling the red carpet out for KU when their on offense -- they should drive literally every time down

OMG TRAPS

LOL @ sherron

bill self is beside him self.

I wonder if that red head with the clover tattoo gets teased alot. He's walking stereotype.

omg 1 point game

for threeee

U CAN'T BE SERIOUS WITH THAT SHOT

omg

FAROKMANESH!!!

Good job Iranian volleyball spawn.

bracketual napalm

http://ruthhubbard.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/indian_onion.jpg

"You can't be serious with that shot!" best line of tourney

although how awesome would this game have been with Gus Johnson calling it

gus actually would have died -- it's better that he's not calling it

BEST NOROOZ EVER

NAPALM

awesome

were there any published brackets that didn't have ku winning

NOT THE CRYING CHILDREN

lol@ a single tear from jayhawk baby

if you can see that baby cry without laughing, you have a HEART OF STONE

kansas was my first elite eight team to lose, but I still have my final four.

Baylor looked fucking bored at the end of that game, how weird.

never knew Northern Ioway was a skool

Kansas was picked by 42.2% of ESPN Tournament Challenge players to win it all. Only 0.9% picked N. Iowa to reach the Sweet 16.

*heads to KU message boards*

I had Ohio State beating KS in my bracket, so this helps a lot

I had Ohio State beating KS in my bracket, so this helps a lot

I have Ohio State winning it all, so ditto.

ohio st has to be the prohibitive favorite right now imo

It's funny to me that after all the talk about how formidable Kansas's region was, they couldn't even beat Northern Iowa.

Bad start for K State

kansas losing was so huge for me, everyone in both of my groups possible points plummeted

just checked, im the only 1 with OSU winning in my whole pool

Late games are snoozers for the most part

wake could play kentucky 6 on 5 and it wouldn't matter

not sure what yall think about joe po but this is pretty good imo (re: kansas)

http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2010/03/20/unplayed-music/

disappointing that gus johnson site doesnt have "theyre really poppin their collars" imo

thx gus, never change homie

<3d it

turner ballin'

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z130/Pycho237/Ballin.jpg

cornell just abusing wisconsin too. this is surprising because the badgers are rarely "good," but they are almost always "though to play against"

ha ha maryland.

As someone who mainly watches NBA I'm really looking forward to Kentucky-Stanford - hopefully it is gonna clarify a bit why being a tall really skillful 'unathletic' player isn't enough?

Stanford, Cornell, thingie.

that mich st shot was so cold

;___; mizzou

damn cornell putting up 87. everyone on that team can shoot jumpers.

duke is way too big for cal. no chance.

Yeah, it looks like I picked the wrong 2nd round 1 seed upset. It is disappointing that the last Pac-10 team standing will be the f'ing Huskies, though.

disappointing...or totally fucking awesome

I should probably watch the end of this Purdue game since I have Texas A&M in the final four. (lol)

And they lost. :(

i had them beating duke -- oh well

baylor's about to run that bracket anyhow

Between the ILX Fantasy Baseball draft and watching C-Span, somehow I just now realized that Cornell won today! I love the opening paragraph from the NYT account:

Cornell players jumped up and down near midcourt, exchanging chest-bumps and high-fives, then ran toward their fans.

And stood around.

I'd do the same, I suppose.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/03/340x_cornellstuffbig.jpg

also, samhan may (should!) be an ilxor

http://deadspin.com/5498398/villanova-got-poopshowered

http://www.gusjohnsongetsbuckets.com/

hahaha "the catch" made me lol

that's the best one -- it's from the ucla/gonzaga game -- gus's call should be playing on loop in one of the smithsonians

Had to restrain myself from posting it on Tuesday (the 4 year anniversary! 3/23 Never Forget), but I guess if you dudes are talking about it I might as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt0VUSyVIr4

That game was SO dope.

http://welikesportz.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/crying2.jpg

It probably took me like three or four times to really appreciate Mbah a Moute's diving steal on Raivio, but that is probably my favorite play in the whole insane sequence. I kinda feel like Mbah a Moute was really the key to the three straight Final Four runs (although Afflalo is my favorite player ever). There was a stretch in 2008 where he was gone and the Bruins suddenly were no longer able to win games just on defense. But that was the year UCLA had Kevin Love and had several questionable calls go in our favor, so it didn't blow up the season.

xp that image is my avatar on any msg board allowing avatars. More for Afflalo than for Morrison, although still LOL @ Morrison. And it was my Facebook profile photo until 2008 (when I started at a new school and some people got confused I wasn't black).

nerds lol

SYRACUSE, NY—Despite overcoming long odds as the lowest seed remaining in the NCAA Tournament, Cornell's basketball team had on Wednesday squandered most of its underdog goodwill by using every opportunity to explain that, given a finite set of possible outcomes and a sufficient period of time, the sheer quantity of opportunities available to accomplish an improbable outcome makes its achievement likely if not almost certain. "It'd be foolish to ascribe any of the properties of a pan-dimensional function space to the NCAA Tournament," said Cornell center Jeff Foote, who has averaged 14 points per game in the first two rounds. "However, bear in mind that we're not talking about a null probability space. With eight teams in the Ivy League and 65 in the tournament, you eventually run out of possible permutations. One could even make the case for historical inevitability; we won, so we were always going to win. I think my good friend Baron d'Holbach would agree—that's decidedly nonzero. Decidedly." Foote excused himself after the interview upon receiving a fifth rejection-of-transfer letter from Harvard.

lol not only is that like the most uninteresting math analysis ive ever heard, dude talks like a cmoplete tool. kentucky should win by 40

it's not a good sign for your team if gus can break out the "poppin their collars" line for your opponents in the first half

hahaha <3 gus "the baby faced assassin is alive and stroking it"

wow, that was some bounce

it's like cuse gave up on the game? no one on their team looks like they care

lol at k3v. k getting trolled by an onion article

;)

Did the CBS just play a Passion Pit song?

andy bernard is freaking out right now

rise and fire

haha i tiotally thought that was real

gus!

gus = mvp

haHA

finally getting good use out of gus

smh & o_O @ uk

im impressed cornell has kept that game so low scoring

i hate that they are not showing that ot right now

being in the midwest pays off for once

well they just switched, thankfully

kelly is a damn beast. fuckin calhoun ran him out of uconn

holy

good god

xxxxxxxxxavier

X GONNA GIVE IT 2 YA

WTF was that??

imo

http://fantastiksports.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/sammy-cassell.jpg

k st is getting all free throws/layups, x is throwing in shots from 28 ft

yeah it's been out of control

k st is in srs foul trouble too

this guy is a genuine cult hero http://twitter.com/#search?q=%22Gus%20Johnson%22

if only xavier was more in shape

haha

they got an open shot but crawford has to shoot there

are those military medals on the k-state coach's jacket?

Prof. Charles Xavier's University for Mutants (pronounced /ˈzeɪvi.ər/ ZAY-vee-ər) is a private, Mutant, co-educational university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Xavier University is one of 28 member institutions of the Justice League.[1]

yeah well, Prof X didn't help them tonite. they shoulda won that game dammit.

plus Syracuse out -- there goes my entire bracket.

oh well -- go Sparty!! all homerism now

i'm hoping that Kalin Lucas died in the space shuttle only to rise again as Dark Lucas

omg guys i'm fucking dying right now listening to the highlights of the xavier-k st game on mmod.ncaa.com

they took the crowd noise out significantly so you get a much clearer listen to gus, and on the loooong crawford three he doesn't say anything from the time he spots up till the time the ball goes in -- he just goes "ohhhhh... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" -- he sounds like an 8 year old going down a roller coaster -- seriously the funniest shit ever, my god

when it pops up on youtube i'll post itt -- it's the most absurd thing i've ever heard, cuz at least during the ucla-zaga game, gus was shouting, but he was shouting words

johnson's uhHHH?!?! on that crawford shot is so great.

release the kracken

http://imgs.sfgate.com/gate/pictures/2010/03/26/ga_omar_taylor_part4.jpg
'I love you, Taylor! Call me'
Omar Samhan, the Gaels' lovable, chatty center, has a thing for the country star.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/26/SPCU1CLF5T.DTL

he really IS an ilxor

This Tenn/OS game is great!

baylor-st marys was sadly predictable

^yes xp

baylor is destroying smc

baylor is getting out on smc's aussie guards and fuckin their shit up

yeah... i mean, i think it was pretty obv that samhan was gonna have a comedown after facing two teams with pretty much no one at center as opposed to baylor who has 3 legit big men -- that in turn was gonna close off all the open threes for the cute lil aussie guards (yes homo), also baylor's guards are quick as shit

For a really good team Tenn seem weirdly bad at like layups and catching and stuff.

lil stevie pearl is especially bad at those things

haaaate pearl's kid

every1 other than ev turner on osu, sucks

lucky refs like them :(

has been a great game

onions!

nightly news

is the CBS Sports internet feed for the MSU/NIU game not working for anyone else? all I get is audio. Duke/Purdue is fine.

nm. it's working now

dude on purdue with the shaved head is one of the worst cbb players i've ever seen

lol i said the same thing abt diebler on osu abt 2 hrs ago (altho i know hes actually ok/can be good) fuck that guy imo

fuck yeah

GREAT job Sparty, and another masterpiece for the great Tom Izzo

baylor is gonna run duke out of the building

agreed

from your lips 2 gods ears

butler vs ks state

good game here

this tourney has been dope

lolll 'dont let the smooth taste fool ya'

he called him "the baby faced assassin" the other night

they need 2 let him do the final four & finals

jim nantz is the fucking worst

he's overusing "pure" today

Hooooollllly crap what was that last K-State sequence? Have fun in the offseason, guys!

butler defense in the last minute was good too

Wall is playing insane.

Hate Kentucky.

Does WV take 2's?

Yeah - I have no idea what's going on but this tourney is so amazing.

jesus, butler

not the team i mean

they need to push the 3 pt line back to nba range, shit is absurd in college

Was that free throw the first non 3 pointer point they've had?

yes, they're 8/13 from 3 right now

with 25 pts

Yes.

I cannot ever remember something like this happening before.

and winning xp

some baaaaad officiating here

Don't lie, you all were hoping that WVU would make it to the half without scoring a 2-pointer too, weren't you?

*nods head*

Oh yea

I hope they don't hit one the whole game.

As long as Kentucky loses.

i wish i could forget enberg

Wow can't stand the Kentucky guy who thinks he never commits a foul. He acts like tim Duncan.

it's weird rooting for west virginia & bob huggins

Wow @ WV being outrebounded 31-15, and up by 8.

lol kentucjy

so by my count, combined from three and free throw, UK are 11-38

my lord cousins is a fucking animal

cousins can't jump

bad officiating

this is going 2 help my bracket A LOT

wtf john wall walking away with four fouls committed in ONE PLAY!!!!

and RIP to the john wall era

flowers has the worst ft motion ive seen in a long time

do u remember?

http://www.nba.com/media/act_luis_flores.jpg

the last bill raftery game is always bittersweet

yup

the high smooch

good ballgame

i dig both these teams

i feel like wayne chism has been at tennessee for ten years

Lundquist is a master of understatement.

Man, what is it about Duke that makes them so loathsome.

I can't stand them, despite knowing absolutely nothing about any of these players.

welp

oh well

that non block on zoubek was the worst call of the tournament

yeah

racist ass tech foul

All is good.

baylor is gonna run duke out of the building

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Friday, March 26, 2010 11:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yep

should i go to the final four y/n

i find it curious that baylor was up going into the half up 6 points and then the second half was followed by duke shooting 9 free throws in four minutes, but hey what do i know

that sentence makes little sense -- "and that was followed by duke shooting 9 free throws in the first four minutes of teh second half, but hey what do i know"

Most of the fouls were fouls

Baylor seemed like they ran out of gas. I don't think they actually had played against a team with a defense in the tournament before this game.

baylor left them so many fuckin open 3s and was lazy as shit on the boards

Thanks, Duke! I clinched my bracket! w00t!

SPARTY!!!!!

Tom Izzo is the greatest coach in the game. There can be no argument.

(sry for delayed chest-beating, was at bar all day)

6 Final Fours in 12 years.

6 Final Fours in 12 years ... please, bro .. please .. Nobody is better than Izzo. NOBODY.

that is impressive

11 in 25 years is pretty good too

NCAA To Strip Duke Of Its '08-'09 Losses

http://www.theonion.com/video/kentucky-violated-ncaa-rules-while-recruiting-bask,17041/

This really does feel like watching the last game in "Hoosiers".

CALIPARI DENIES SILENT DOG WHISTLE WAS
USED TO KEEP FETCH IN LEXINGTON

lols my mom: "heyward is so pink, he looks like he just hatched."

Currently Michigan State is playing more white guys than Butler is!

did obama just say "splash"? :D

that obama segment was hilarious

also, it's old news and all but still, dude's form is so solid

I don't think anyone can say that the refs have helped duke this game with their amont of free throws.

nah, wvu is a good match up for duke -- no real big men to speak of, none of their players are particularly quick & they're just getting screened to death

And that bs tech...

eh not sure what miles was doing there, his momentum wasn't going to carry him + that ref is a notorious tech caller (he called one in the elite 8, forget on who)

back to what i was saying -- it was pretty obv i think that duke was gonna be able to swing this game like they have -- wvu is playing the same way they did against kentucky but duke is never gonna shoot 1/22 from 3, which is really what bailed wvu out in that game

College basketball is generally pretty good about calling techs for hanging off the rim, unless a dude is laying down under the basket. Plumlee was hanging there without much reason to be.

are they reenacting the end of the titanic or

Awww shit that sucks.

There was a lot of rim hanging in the Baylor game that wasn't called. I'm still bitter over that.

christ, his left leg is just DRAGGING

Super-awkward-looking, but I <3 Huggy Bear for that.

his knee literally exploded?

Why would you be bitter about borderline calls in a game your team won?

Wow, the shot of him on the cart...that is a ganked-up knee joint.

Poor guy.

whitest final ever

we all thought huggins was gonna make out w/ him

the most uncomfortable part for me was the thought of cradling a man that sweaty

too true

whitest final ever

not a long enough memory

ok can someone gif the baylor coach staring down that player right there

my girl mya is GOING IN btw - 12 pts in 7 minutes

brittney griner looks like a manlier version of stephen curry

http://deadspin.com/5510069/the-gus-johnson-megamix-a-special-deadspin-films-presentation

he loves to feel his defender

there needs to be a sister thread called "unintentional homoerotic sports analysis"

that was a fukkin terrible 6 minutes for howard

hayward <3

yea that was sick

good game so far

scheyer is such a weak on the ball defender, they gotta feed hayward if he's gonna be d-ing him up one-on-one

holy shit smith just clowned that whiteboy

it's bugging me that nantz sounds like he's saying NORAD and Zouback

scheyer flop count at 3

matt howard is playing like a goddamn idiot

he's like nba-era greg oden

damn didn't know hayward was a tennis player, kinda like him now

why wouldn't you like him otherwise? dude is a str8 baller

idk i thought he was kinda dorky (uh not that this was remedied by me learning he is a good tennis player, lol)

pussy ass charge call

they blew that one big time -- college needs a half circle

i just hate charge calls when the defender doesn't even attempt to play defense, scheyer just slid under him

i agree with that

yankees & duke winning championships in one cycle would be end times shit imo

oh that was filthy

h8 duke so so much

lakers too xxp

tru

at least we got the peyton INT

re hayward does EVERY athlete have to be a bible freak? can't we have just one agnostic athlete

http://slamonline.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/AdamMorrison1.jpg

lol

ha, he's incidentally just as bad

http://images.dailyradar.com/media/uploads/ballhype/story_large/2008/11/20/robert_swift1.jpg

what is that

he looks like the dude who sold pot to everyone in my dorm freshman year

one of the best title games in any sport in recent memory

this is kind of unbearable tension

damn

fuck

good D

omg

AHHHH

fuck dis gay earth

BALLS

really thought hayward was a step away from being under & behind zubek on that drive, don't think the jump-stop fade was the best shot but he almost made it

Amazing but sad ending

if he would've made that shot the world would've just exploded into an ether, because things like that just do not happen

didn't get emotionally invested in that game cause of odds of duke winning

i tried not to, but then duke started to choke it away, and i started to believe, but oh well

fuck :(

still kinda sad; just can't stand the thought of mike krzyzewski being happy

i have mixed feelings about coach k -- i love him as the usa coach -- but he's a huge cunt as a duke coach (as great of an actual basketball coach as he is)

The sad thing is that Duke is probably getting a lot of these guys back next year.

dammit quit showing that shot

well scheyer is a senior -- singler will prob test the draft -- nolan smith could be a first round pick -- zoubek & lance thomas are seniors -- so maybe/prob not

they're getting seth curry tho (steph's brother)

yeah i would have just mildly disliked him until some of my friends from h.s. went to duke and told me what a cunt he was.

he's a great coach -- he MURDERED bob huggins in the nat'l semi -- but he whines like a baby to the refs & no one ever has the balls to t him up or to tell him to stfu

apparently he cusses out the kids who go to duke games for not getting loud enough--even during the bullshit early part of the sched.

this duke team is a lot like the unc team from last year, but less outwardly talented -- a group of guys that had played together for a while, hadn't been hit really at all by nba early jumps (aside from gerald henderson) and eventually just broke through to win the title -- guys like singler & nolan smith are quintessential great college bball players --- duke & their seniors def took advantage of a season that didn't have another elite team that had been playing together for years (altho you could prob say that butler qualifies)

also HE LOOKS LIKE A RAT

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Mike_Krzyzewski_-_basketball_coach.jpg/150px-Mike_Krzyzewski_-_basketball_coach.jpg

HI GUYS

coach k is a terrible interviewer on PTI, sounds really smarmy and guarded

well tbf the smarm drips off him

The fact that this game was so heavy at the end that Nantz couldn't even drop a one-liner makes me hopeful he will narrate a winning putt by Tiger on Sunday at 18 by saying "You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly."

All is good in the world.

singler was really impressive. i think i kind of mentally wrote him off way back when he was too hyped as an nba prospect, but he really is about all you could hope for as a college player.

scheyer face

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs383.snc3/23461_380893406366_14553116366_4277011_5636695_n.jpg

http://d3gkbha1s7sr56.cloudfront.net/someecards/filestorage/spo_32.jpg

I have no idea if Scheyer is a decent dude or an asshole or what, but maaaaaan that is such a punchable face.

OTOH my only problem with Kyle Singler is that he doesn't have that sweet floppy hair he had going in Gunning For That #1 Spot.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2rf7ber.jpg

Kings of Oregon

puke

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u233/terpbe2/scheyergt08b.jpg

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/redefining-what-it-means-to-work-hard/

David Brooks: A few hours after that atrocity of opening day, Duke went on to beat Butler for the national championship. You should know that Duke is one of my alma maters. I am very generous in my definition of alma maters. I claim that affiliation with any school I went to, taught at, lived near (Villanova and St. Johns) or parked at.

Unlike 90 percent of America, I was rooting for Duke last night. This was widely cast as a class conflict — the upper crust Dukies against the humble Midwestern farm boys. If this had been a movie, Butler’s last second heave would have gone in instead of clanging off the rim, and the country would still be weeping with joy.

But this is why life is not a movie. The rich are not always spoiled. Their success does not always derive from privilege. The Duke players — to the extent that they are paragons of privilege, which I dispute — won through hard work on defense.

Gail Collins: I’m sorry, when the difference is one weensy basket, I’d say Duke won neither by privilege nor hard work but by sheer luck. But don’t let me interrupt your thought here. I detect the subtle and skillful transition to a larger non-sport point.

David Brooks: Yes. I was going to say that for the first time in human history, rich people work longer hours than middle class or poor people. How do you construct a rich versus poor narrative when the rich are more industrious?

srsly why is the american middle class and poor just so lazy these last 2 years?

UGH I didn't think there was a way I could hate David Brooks EVEN MORE DAMN YOU AMON

UGH

currently resides in Bethesda, MD ;)

what the living fuck

take the red line, pay him a visit

i saw him walking around bethesda once, he's shorter than i imagined. also saw tommy freidman

be careful with your words amon, an anonymous ilxor might pretend to be david brooks and call you up for that threat

http://www.msn101.com/content/forums/2008/10/23/lolcopter7ro_4WX3NR.gif

Gail Collins: I’m sorry, when the difference is one weensy basket, I’d say Duke won neither by privilege nor hard work but by sheer luck. But don’t let me interrupt your thought here. I detect the subtle and skillful transition to a larger non-sport point.

please interrupt his point! by all means!

never in my wildest dreams did i think that my hatred for Duke and Dr. Bobo would come together in such a horrific fashion

detect the subtle and skillful transition to a larger non-sport point.

lol zing

be careful with your words amon, an anonymous ilxor might pretend to be david brooks and call you up for that threat

― goon with the wind (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, April 7, 2010 5:04 PM

?¿?

nevermind

What is the sociocultural equivalent of flopping to take a charge?

you mean flopping after you shoot a three

Either way. I feel like someone has compared the Euro-football flopping trend to some kind of creeping European socialism before, somewhere, come to think of it. I totally forget where, though.

*Euro-football-derived

brooks is a complete moron shocker but it's not like butler was that much better to root for

o man is scheyer face going to nba :(((

yeah ncdub tital this yr was honkeyfest 2k10

xpost

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5068230

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Nobody-told-Patrick-Patterson-he-was-entering-th?urn=ncaab,232942

This delights me.

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/04/10/brooks-let-them-eat-work/

lol

tourney only expanding to 68, thankfully

RIP big 12, you were a pretty good basketball league, but our fine public educational institutions care more about football money than just about anything else.

(of course you could say the same about basketball money vs all other college sports except football too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJWPASQZqLc

That video is like a low rent Nike ad.

DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE

GOPHERS OVER NC!!

this is getting real dogs.

TUBBY TIME!

first we take puerto rico, then we take berlin.

champions :)

lol tarheels