2011 ncaa

christ, kemba walker just single handedly beat witchita st (29pts in 2nd half), who is a lot better team than uconn

i was at the game last wk where he scored 42~

anyway.

the other thing i wanted to say is that carter blackburn is a really good broadcaster

yeah they might've wanted to try some new strategies at guarding him

jesus christ duke looks amazing

w/ the way unc looked in puerto rico, they look like they could legit make a run at undefeated

shit they play mich st huh -- they could lose that game, looked like mich st had the guards to play with them & if duke has a weakness it's probably inside -- marquette is getting good points down there right now

if duke has a weakness it's probably inside

meaning that draymon greene could have a big game while mich st guards play duke to about a draw

man there are a bunch of large white kids on this team

it's weird how teams just seem to routinely forget about kyle singler allowing him to just nail open threes -- they rarely even run him off screens it seems like, so i'll chalk up "invisibility" as a small skill

i was enjoying the duke game for a bit and then made a crucial misstep and unmuted it

tho damn marquette is back in this apparently?

DON'T HATE ON VITALE

did you see vitale with the little kid he gave the book to? it was nightmarish

Vitale is making book on the side with kids as clients?!?

i guess he wrote a children's book? so there was an extended shot of this little kid holding the book and vitale, with full robotic smile, shaking him and mussing his hair for like 20 seconds

i wonder if the book is dedicated to the general, robert montgomery knight

nah, probably his dear friend jimmy v. who taught us all never to give up

the guy is so hilarious during games, c'mon

dude can't carry raftery's jock

well i'll agree w/ that

listening to bobby knight do color is weird, because (apart from having to hear the play-by-play man kiss his ass for two hours) he's awkward and his contempt for everyone around him is thinly veiled. but he will actually say interesting things about the game being played, sometimes things no one else would notice or mention.

the thing with vitale is that everything about the game is merely a pretext for him to start shouting acronyms (that he then explains) or go off on one of his standard digressions (robert montgomery knight, jimmy v, david thompson, the 15 players that would be make his _____ starting five, dean michaelangelo smith, etc). when shit happens -- was that a five-second call or a foul? -- he's too busy talking about brett favre. he doesn't give a shit what's going on, he just wants your attention.

the team of raft, bilas, & blackburn doing the msu-chaminade game is basically abt as good as it gets

man there are a bunch of large white kids on this team

#shoutout to Kemba walker he was out there cooking!!! jimmywa11
John Wall

this is the most bizarre game ive ever seen uconn play

bizarre that theyre in it?

raft's 1st onions of the season is a beautiful thing imo

kemba gets 30 again, upsets msu

bizarre that theyre in it?

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:49 PM (45 minutes ago)

nah just that i have not seen a uconn team jack up as many 3s as that in a long time. i don't think oriakhi touched the ball for the first eight minutes of the second half

hey we won tho! hi 5

uconn is playing unbelievably & uk v sloppy

21-2 run

I feel like Georgetown vs Missouri might be the best thing ever aired live on ESPN U.

better than the budweiser frogs?

yes

Missouri is gonna wreck NCAA brackets. They are capable of being realllly good and then will just make one inexplicable decision after another, so they might as easily lose to a 13 seed mid-major as they could knock off a 1 seed.

Austin Freeman is so good this year!

shouldn't there be NO college basketball today? what are they thinking!

anyway butler is actually tied w/ duke at half right now

kyrie irving is insane

yes

my new favorite boxscore of 2010

http://i53.tinypic.com/33opjee.png

http://wm.grinnell.edu/athletics/mbasketball/statistics/MBK1011/1123fbm.htm

so in the second half, they took one shot from inside the arc -- and missed it.

they have 20 players, one of whom is named 'chalupa'

and griffin lentsch is not afraid to shoot the ball

grinnell is a blast to watch

haha 88 in the 1st half

somehow the oakland golden grizzlies are pretty good, abt 2 beat tenn @ tenn

blatant walk by morris there lol

what the hell just happened

loooool announcers go "and you can see the reaction from the bench...young stockton getting into it (*david stockton makes a gesture suggesting that he has enormous balls*)...oh"

a+ will anticipate gif

"David Stockton"

my girls making me nervous atm

cant believe they cut in to mens football yo

theres a bill simmons column abt this brewin'

damn :(

(altho i admit i havent cared abt this streak 4 1 second)

start building the marcus jordan legend?

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Marcus Jordan saw to it that the unbeaten run for Central Florida (No. 21 ESPN/USA Today, No. 19 AP) stayed intact.

Jordan scored 22 of his 26 points in the second half to help the Knights rally past Princeton 68-62 Thursday night in the championship game of the UCF Holiday Classic.

The son of NBA star Michael Jordan scored nine straight points early in the second half to wipe out a 37-29 halftime deficit for the Knights (13-0).

Jordan took over almost every Central Florida possession. Just as important, he limited Dan Mavraides to just two points after the Princeton guard lit up the Knights with 18 points in the first half.

"Marcus scored 26 points, which was just an unbelievable effort, but the amazing thing was what he did defensively," UCF coach Donnie Jones said. "I challenged our guys at halftime to come out with an edge the first five minutes or we were going to the subs and he certainly did that."

Jordan played on a sore ankle that prevented him from starting the previous two games.

"The ankle was killing me the whole game, but I just kept telling myself to push through it," Jordan said.

The sophomore guard shot 6 for 9 from the field in the second half and made 10 of 11 free throws. His fallaway 16-footer gave UCF its first lead of the game at 40-39 with 14:47 left in the game.

lol cincy arena playing 'hard in the paint' right b4 the tipoff

hueg win 4 uconn @ texas

dude that game was just

i have no voice left

kemba is retarded good

yea he killed it down the stretch & ot

last 2 mins of this wisc-msu game has been insane

jimmer fredette put up 47

that wisco-mich st game looked nuts

come on fl st

dook is 10-30 from 3

singleton is an ugly motherfucker but his #s are whoa

oh that nolan hit was cole blood, shit

nolan smith is incredible

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

know what's weird to me? that the nba has two rules that distinctly make the game easier than the college game

1. in the nba you get 6 fouls instead of 5
2. in the nba you can advance the ball past half court w/ a time out

you'd think it'd be the other way around

well game is 20 pct longer in nba, get 20 pct more fouls

second is basically to create more scoring, same reason you have defensive 3 seconds in nba and no 5 second rule in nba

wooooooooo! i love it when duke loses.

i was rooting for duke, fuck a fsu

<3 this guy^^^

the various plumlees seem to be regressing badly

the plumlees were invisible tonight & they got ravaged by reggie johnson in the miami game a few weeks ago

oregon's court is an eyesore huh?

uh, yeah

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/632669/acc_2bteams.jpeg

rofl

dying

crazy comeback by l'ville

Why does UNC suck this year? They don't help each other up when one of them is on the ground and barely acknowledge assists! Didn't UNC invent the point-to-your-teammate while running to the other half of the court? I blame Zeller, who seems to want desperately to be Hansbrough. Would love to see Henson put on another 40 pounds, though. But then he wouldn't be Henson. Sigh. And Kentucky is now THE place for a point guard to go. Seems like it's gonna be a long time before we see another Felton or Lawson. Oh, and Make Your Free Throws.!

they suck cuz harrison barnes has been a bust this year?

Maybe. As an aside, I was at the Illinois game in the next to last row and some kid blew out his vocal chords early in the second half after screaming "Hair-i-Son Barnnnnnes!" over and over and over all game.

I think there are two poles on this team -- epitomized by Zeller, trying to be tough-like-Duke on the one side, and Henson on the other, just wanting to have fun. I'd like to see the latter win out. I think Barnes gets pulled between the two.

this fuckin guy

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/490460/kemba2.jpg

fucking insane

For reals. Not happy I'm gonna be missing the Pitt/'Cuse game this eve...

its 17-0 pitt atm

this is the weirdest fucking game

that was very weird. pitt looks really good, tho -- can't argue with being first in the country in assists and second in rebounds

the dawning ubiquity of big east basketball every year is very much like when it turns to winter, except i can sort of delay my exposure to the former

yea pitt is p nasty xp

jordan what do you have against big east bball

ha idk -- generally i have this problem w/ college bball where i can't really get into it until like after the super bowl & the big east is just always on TV and so many of the teams & their rankings are interchangeable to me

like i swear i've seen like 64 games in my lifetime where #6 ranked pitt played #9 ranked syrcause

i'm being overly misanthropic obv idk

yeah dude idk there are so many ridiculously good big east teams tho

uconn obv ^_^

yeah dude idk there are so many ridiculously good big east teams tho

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Monday, January 17, 2011 9:11 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah idk about this one

stewart mandel made a good point on twitter & that's that the big east has an SEC level of respect in college bball despite not winning a nat'l title since 04

5 final four teams tho

i'm talking about right now tho - the amount of legit contenders in the conference plus its depth - there's not really an easy game

i mean they're gonna get get at least 10 teams in the dance at this point - whether one of them wins it is kinda irrelevant, arguing that it's not by far the strongest conference would be insane

big 12 is strong too

okay, as a kansas fan i have to say that marcus morris has become a better overall basketball player than i ever hoped he could be. before the season i was worried that ku didn't have a go-to scorer, but it's been marcus throughout. they could have easily lost all of the previous three games before tonight if he hadn't played so well.

big east does seem really strong this season but, yeah, EVERY season commentators constantly talk how awesome the big east is. think it is mostly due to:

1) big east is a giant basketball conference with 16 teams, and people think having 8 tournament teams from the big east is way more impressive than 6 from the big 12/big 10/pac 10/acc/sec.

2) big east is espn's "home" conference and uconn is their home school so the big east seems like it must be more important, and espn has a near monopoly on showing and promoting college bball (not counting the tournament, obv).

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/01/18/rashad-mccants-post-nba-career-bi-sexual-leader-of-a-shoplifting-ring-in-the-movies/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSwZgpOad8

23 years ago today

got a text last week from my ncaa-loving, nba-bashing friend that was nothing more than "jimmer fredette". i thought it was code or a butt text. but yeah, jimmer fredette!

the guy was getting MJ calls tonight

nice win for the gophers last night!

got a text last week from my ncaa-loving, nba-bashing friend that was nothing more than "jimmer fredette". i thought it was code or a butt text. but yeah, jimmer fredette!

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:22 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

god jimmer coverage is going to get utterly insufferable isn't it.

it's going to take an awful lot to make me tired of hearing the name 'jimmer'

god jimmer coverage is going to get utterly insufferable isn't it.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:34 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yes

the announcer were all on his jock. *routine, almost flat-footed long rebound grabbed by jimmer* "OH WAIT A REBOUND BY FREDETTE!", all Harlan-esque.

haha oh WHAT a rebound. oh wait a rebound would've been the correct call.

an assist...OH WAIT, a rebound!

How have I missed this thread? Go Duke.

lol keep missing this thread if youre gonna root for duke

go uconn

What he meant to say was, "Duke, go!"

and all this without kyrie

(well, it's just the shitty 2011 acc, but still)

duke got pwned . . . by a steve lavin-coached team kablow

Still kinda mad I missed the chance to boo Steve Lavin live in person last week because of the snow. But it did help being able to boo Rick Pitino tonight and to congratulate the dude who kept up the "Hoya Hoops: A Problem R. Pitino Can't Abort" sign.

Watching Louisville live is awful, but it is fun watching them lose.

Been reluctant to post due to Cleveland States mid season swoon (lost two in a row to Valpo and Butler) but this win tonight was really pretty good against Valpo, next up Butler on Saturday. Norris Cole is a strong point guard and they're getting some big help now down the stretch. Was going to the game against Butler on Saturday but then free tickets to Cavs rolled in as a Christmas present, which is bittersweet.

Anyway, it's nice to have a team to root for in Cleveland.

unc point guard larry drew ii is transferring . . . right now

i swear he barely played when i saw them vs miami the other week, but this is pretty weird anyway

jay bilas called the super bowl/nfl crypto-fascist on gameday

nice!

dang marshawn brooks went for 43 in a 2-pt loss @ georgetown

Seriously dude just would not stop scoring. Apptly he had 21 of Providence's first 25 points. Mondy had 19 also, so 62 pts of 81 total were from 2 guys.

az/cal is going 2 triple ot

damn

uf-uk has been v fun

brutal loss for cal

is anyone watching this missouri valley-alabama state game? not only is it the worst-lit court i've ever seen on tv, but one team is wearing black and the other dark green. who thought this was a good idea?

haha when i was in high school our home unis were orange (black on the road) and in the state playoffs we came up against a lower seed whose road unis were red. and our shooting guard was colorblind. we ended up wearing black shirts with orange shorts.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0208/ncb_g_pearl01_576.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aFuseG02LXA/TSnyFTf31KI/AAAAAAAAANA/x7DQdTi75rM/s400/fred_flintstone-5303.jpg

bob knight callin digger richard is cuet

nd is owning louisville in ot

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

go to hell carolina

How high

i'm just overjoyed by sheed's presence -- he was looking particularly method man wasn't he?

can i say that i'm VERY intrigued by john henson?

also marshall is kinda awesome, carolina has been looking good lately -- i was really feeling them vs fsu the other day

duke is soft inside & has been all year

if tyler zeller is bodying your squad...

coach k refusing to do the halftime interview is pretty pimp, i must admit

Collins usually does it anyway.

This is more like it.

brian kelly is hideous

Ryan Kelly?

It's nick horvath 2.0.

suck it roy

Truth

god fuck duke

Whoever came up with the idea of using the left side of the TV on ESPN's HD feed to show tiny boxes of each coach for the Kansas-Kansas St game is a genius. Nonstop Frank Martin cam is so, so great. He is never not angry.

good, brief rundown of scouts' thoughts of top prospects:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/seth_davis/02/14/nba.scouting.finch/index.html#

cool!

i'm sort of similarly skeptical of kemba's nba prospects

i'm skeptical of anything printed under seth davis' name, but ok

http://i.imgur.com/6U1bT.jpg

lol

OTM

lolly szczerbiak

KEMBA

JJ & Antawn & Manny & Boobie & Kemba

holy shit nebraska has fallen apart vs texas

made up a 11 pt lead in like ~1 min of clock time

huskers still win!

so tx, nd, & pitt have all lost 2day

kinda want to see sdsu sneak into a #1 seed somehow & get embarrassed in a 8/9 v 1 2d round game against marquette or some1

college players are so fucking stupid

unc-bc in a barnburner

hah yea this game is garbage

so many bricks i could build a house 4 yo momma

kansas-colorado + bc-unc back-to-back = me watching three episodes of 'the wire' today

how far are you in that? i dont wanna ask you on the wire thread cuz it's fulla spoilers

i have 2 episodes left in season 4

tbh i respect the whole "every season is about a different part of baltimore" thing but tbh the WHOLE series should've been about the kids -- <3 them all

jesus georgetown looked miserable tonight. in that 8-0 stretch thought they could've been serious contenders, now wouldn't be surprised if they're out in their first round

also, ttfn temple. this is what happens when you play legitimate competitors

marshawn brooks can fill it up huh - 20/28 - 52 pts

how the fuck does Syracuse win any games with that offense.

San Diego State's student section is outdoing the Cameron Crazies today.

plus it was an 11am local time start there

byu kinda put on a clinic here ~ 60% from 3s

UCLA just beat Arizona so badly that they got to put in all the walk-ons at the end, including John Wooden's great-grandson, who promptly got an offensive rebound and a putback to score the last field goal on Nell & John Wooden Court before they shut it down for a year to renovate it.

Just the best game, really excited.

(Also went to Georgetown-Syracuse today, that was not as much fun)

jay bilas is pretty funny on the twitters

some good raftery stories and a lot of digger zings

lol byu

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6175090

& theyre down 16 to new mexico!

nice turn of phrase on espn just now 'all lobos in provo'

seriously why would you go to BYU

like, we're supposed to believe that jimmer hasn't had sex in four years?

damn, a man too honest to play basketball for byu. reminds me of a guy i met who got kicked out of rotc b/c he admitted to having smoked weed once.

i really like john henson

i think he's gonna be useful in the league

regardless of his weight, very few guys that height are as skilled & athletic as he is

that matt bieber dude from ohio state has a pretty looking shot

> i really like john henson

agreed. he also seems like a really nice, good kid.

post-larry-drew tar heels are quickly becoming my favorite tar heels team. i hope they all come back next year...

Ohio State's defense was S.I.C.K today. Crushing. It's hard not to have them going deep in the tournament, but they do have a short bench.

To say nothing of Diebler, who has, like, 40 three-pointers in the past two games or something.

Wisconsin flat out played like they gave up in the second half. every offensive shot contested, no defensive adjustments....

at one point I think every 3 pointer they hit was answered by one by Ohio State. also they took 0 FTs in the first half, and that wasn't by accident.

Ohio State looks bloody dangerous

when was the last time a coach named thad won anything

'Sup: http://bctornados.com/profile.asp?playerID=20

looks kinda like a stoner manning bro

my apologies to thads all over this great nation

uconn is making gtown look baaaad

nova might'ev played their way into the tues/wed games

embarrassing the way the refs handled the end of the johnnies surviving vs rutgers

those refs cannot work the rest of this tourney

amazingly awful

that was unreal, the final 2 seconds

rutgers tbf made some terrible choices down the stretch. dane miller looks like a stiff imo, get the ball to mitchell or beatty for godsake

doris burke is such a g

http://30fps.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/x2011-March-9-16-40-6.jpg.pagespeed.ic.P9dkuf1VHf.jpg

francessa on yes is screaming for them to bring the players back out & play the last 1.7

fran frischilla: 'call what you see'

thanks dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlOWkNBxlTo&feature=youtu.be

Final score: 65-63. The O/U for the game was 128.5.

tim higgins had the under

holy shit. i mean there are judgment calls and then there's a guy walking out of bounds with the ball in his hands with time left.

yes

yeah it's a pretty inexcusable fuckup - good on the rutgers coach to not bitch about it tho considering he was already walking to shake hands as this was all going on, not like he was paying attention either

i only heard part of what he said but digger made a pt abt the refs or maybe refs in general cuz he didnt want to single anyone out being tired this time of the season & them being late on or missing calls & implying that played a factor here

i mean perhaps a 64 yr old dude ref'ing is not the best idea

the rutgers coach said he didnt know abt it until he watched it on his school's information directors iphone

yeah he was saying 5 games a week is too much, esp at this time of year. prob has a point, but then again these dudes aren't exactly getting paid either as far as i'm aware

wait why arent they getting paid

i think they do fairly well iirc

paid particularly well, i meant

idk i feel like most of these dudes have summer jobs probably, doubt college reffing is paying the big bucks

xp could be wrong

DickieV Dick Vitale
Let' face I have written on a number of occasions that too much @ stake & their should be FULL TIME REFS like NBA! Find the CASH!

fuc dickie v tbh

i mean, they blew the call hard. but i don't think it's because they're part-timers

how can he not add "baby!" 2 the end of that xxp

vitale's twitter is straight up gold btw -- my favorite twitter account for the lols

DickieV Dick Vitale
Now I see y all my tweeting buddies r going bananas over ST John's W vs RU- simple zebras flat out blew it - THAT WAS A TRAVESTY!

DickieV Dick Vitale
Dancing time 4 Butler - March Madness will have some superb Davids chasing the Goliaths such as Butler, Oakland, George Mason ,& Belmont !

DickieV Dick Vitale
The mo re u analyze the Tresselgate u become amazed how kids like Dez Bryant get nailed -leader of kids gets nothing-penalty a FARCE!

damn

str8 dickV truths, plus the benefit of not hearing his voice - win-win

also a 65 year old tweeting incessantly w/ various punctuation, spelling & grammar mistakes is hilarious

yes

i say this a lot but dickie v is unfit to carry bill raftery's jock in any medium

idk i feel like most of these dudes have summer jobs probably, doubt college reffing is paying the big bucks

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=4920019

actually most of them have full-time non-basketball jobs and do this on the side, but get paid pretty well for it:

Each official is an independent contractor, hired by various leagues to work games. Top-tier officials are well-compensated -- based on ability, they're paid anywhere from $700 to $1000 per game, plus travel and expenses. But for Higgins and many others, college officiating isn't a full-time gig.

kemba is making some unreal shots right now but this kid gibbs is killing us

pitt is shooting straight fire

ONIONS!!

among many other reasons i'm gonna be sad to see kemba leave after this year because he and shabazz work so well together - shabazz is a really cool player and one of the best perimeter defenders i've seen in a while, kid can straight up d dudes up

yea i noticed him in the v 1st few games of the season that he had really good on the ball d skills

ive been listening on the radio at work this week -- for some reason the uconn radio play-by-play guy calls shabazz "the business", its sorta funny. he also sometimes calls kemba, k-walk

haha nice

that wasn't really a bad call by the refs there - kemba didnt hit him but it was bad defense and any time you swing your arm that wildly from behind to block a shot you know you're gonna get whistled

wow

awesome

onions

sucks that pitt switched on that pick

KEMBA

COLD BLOOD

fwiw you can tell you're in an office full of nerds in hartford that do not give a shit about basketball when you're the only person loudly going "oh shit!" after that :/

johnny c make sure you watch a replay of that - mcghee's ankles got straight BROKE

yeah that was a bad switch, but i don't think anyone else was gonna stop that

pitt shot 55% overall, 8-for-11 on three-pointers . . . and lost. dag

xp i def will. mcghee has killed us over the course of his career, its fitting

i've never seen anyone step back as far as kemba did on that shot -- he seriously jumped backwards like 2 ft

anyone see the end of the miami-uva game? miami was down 10 with 29 seconds left, tied it & then won in OT

they made up 10 points in 29 seconds?? whoa

yes UVA pretty much threw the ball at our players

ku only won by a pt huh? they always seem 2 have issues in their conf tourney

they were down big early tho

it was pointed out that not only should rutgers have gotten the ball with 1.8-1.6 seconds yesterday, but there should have been a technical for throwing the ball into the crowd . . .

ohio state - northwestern in ot

fuckin carolina

xavier knocked off in a10

there has been a kyrie irving sighting

Don't get your hopes up

oh i know

i like the reports of jordan williams staring at him wide-eyed, tho

tyler olander kinda reminds me of travis knight

brandon triche reminds me of his dad

lol old

olander is kind of going ham! he is ridiculously unathletic and should def touch the ball less this half, quit while you're ahead calhoun

this game is intense as hell

fuck ot huskies played sloppy as fuk there

what the hell

why is beverly in the game, now or ever

he seems athletic but yeah

that beverly turnover was hilariously bad

lol "pulsating action"

i am chewing my nails off

kemba is amazing

12 rebounds, 5 assists, 6 steals, 33 pts

fuc jim calhoun 4eva tho

Clemson will make the ACC finals.

maui 2 manhattan ^TM

kemba had a game(TM)

Clemson will make the ACC finals.

i want to believe you. but i don't

nothing like a good 35-30 big ten game

http://grab.by/9qJd

O_O

i haven't seen him play. is he really. . .?

idk one thing that def jumps out when you look at his stats is that hes a senior http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/player/profile?playerId=36409

he's pretty insane as far as college players go, will be interesting to see if he can have a redick-like role-player nba career

i'm bored by him

jordan he scored 50 POINTS

i'd definitely value him over kemba at this point but feels like kemba could probably have more of an upside - don't see either as a starter on a playoff team tho

yeah you're fucking up if you're "bored" by fast break pullup 25 footers tbh

fuck all of you measuring him by the nba

can he carry the mormons all the way or waht

no

he could prob take them to the elite 8 a la steph

if jimmer focuses on shooting threes he could prob stay in the league playing the redick/korver role for somebody

w/ a little extra muscle on his drives

as far as i can remember they havent beaten a legit tournament team all year other than SDSU and their second best player got suspended for GETTING IT IN

xp yeah that's what im thinking too, def has a more complete game than redick did, tho i have no idea if he plays defense and i know he turns the ball over way too much

does kyle korver play defense?

byu would prob be in slightly better tourney shape if they hadnt suspended their starting center for doing sex

i know redick gives good effort at defense but he doesn't strike me as partic good at it

redick is p dece at D imo

redick was a much better driver (than previously) by the time he was done, but he never racked up 50 like that

i dont watch the magic much but i've gotten the impression that he plays better d than most ppl would assume, def works hard

otoh redick was probably distracted by pussy so

i know he chases ray allen the fuck around

jimmer

how much do these byu guys jerk off? their shower must be like a scene from CSI

i'm guessing the honor code covers cum showers, but i dunno

ew lets all be cool ok

you *would* say that ice cu?m

okay while we're here i know k3vin is a uconn fan, Jeff a duke fan, j0rdan something south florida something

what else have we got

hold on i don't root for south florida

lol

jordan's team is florida international but close enough

you root for institutions in south florida?

i note that you did not immediately proclaim yrself a mizzou fan

i dont have an ncaa team i root for, i grew up right next to b.c. which is why i dont like b.c.

so bu or ne?

no i don't really care about mizzou sports, my best friend gives me shit over it all the time

i have univ of miami tatted on my chest

(not literally)

come tourney time i root for my bracket + who i'm feeling based how the tourney plays out

i like how the mizzou jerseys say mizzou on them its p hilar

is jeff a duke alum? better be!

when i grew up, pitt was full of whiners like charles smith. i was a syracuse fan and hated georgetown.

uconn was unimportant then, though if i'd known what a punk calhoun would turn out to be i'd have, um, rooted differently

also i am a duke alum

idc about uconn football really (i hate college football) but basketball i am huge on obv

i grew up in upstate ny & was huge syracuse fan (<3 u gerry & melo) so the transition was awkward but ive made if effectively - i still root for syracuse in non uconn games tho

i've known some ppl in miami to pronounce the state "mizzouri" because of that abbreviation

also the mizzou bball team & fball team use two distinctly different shades of secondary color -- it's v weird, i can't think of another school that's like this

bball = gold

http://columbia.faircitynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ncb_a_english1_3003.jpg

fball = yellow

http://www.freewebs.com/godofthegoldentriumphfork/mrucker.jpg

i was at the knicks game on monday, first time i saw melo play live since 2003, love that dude for what he did with cuse. dropped like 35

that is strange xp

mooks we share georgetown hatred

my dentist (and travel bball coach age 12-13) played for syracuse in the 80s - i thought he was going to never talk to me again before i told him i was going to uconn, but he was like "anywhere but georgetown"

dunno who im rooting for in this game really, we lost to both of these teams - louisville we def should have beaten - otoh notre dame plays man primarily and kemba could light them up

VT just drilled a jumper to go up one over fsu w/ 4.7 left -- might've saved their tourney chances

HOOOOOOOOOOOLY

FSU just drove down the floor & hit a corner fadeaway as the buzzer expired

oh wow the shot was literally .01 late

looks like he got it off?

actually idk?

i think it was late

fucking insane

well shit!

VT head coach be huggin cheerleaders

i think that's his daughter

haha it's weird now

because i think jt3 is a great coach, and a couple of years ago the hoyas just fucking carved up duke running all these back door plays -- it was actually beautiful basketball.

my hatreds these days can be broken down to: calipari (who is from pittsburgh and apparently a totally personable guy) because of everything he's done. i mean he is 50% what's wrong with college basketball by himself. pitino, because fuck that dude with whatever is running down his leg. billy donovan for his fucking hairdo. calhoun because i think he's a cheater and his line about being the highest paid conn employee was reprehensible. gary williams because he has no fucking neck and his fans are gutless savages. i actually really respect roy williams, i just don't like his team.

i am confused about steve lavin, whom i had thought was a clown until recently?

lol me 2

he was smart 2 hire good assistnts, may still be a clown

L'ville has been crzy resiliant in some games this yr but I can easily see them getting knocked out 2nd rd NCAA

I don't know if jeff is a Duke alum or not, but Jeff is not a Duke alum. However growing up in NC, you have to pick a college bball team to like before you go to kindergarden, and I picked Duke. I probably just like the color of blue better then, that's how 4 year olds pick teams.

I actually went to NC State.

*head explodes*

before i read that last sentence i was gonna say "just root for NC state!"

lol @ doug gottlieb - "seemingly every move calhoun has made has worked, with the exception of inserting donnell beverly at key times"

lol i used to like carolina when i was a kid cause of the baby blue unis

lol @ doug gottlieb - "seemingly every move calhoun has made has worked, with the exception of inserting donnell beverly at key times"

― johnny crunch, Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:05 PM (17 minutes ago)

:D / ;_;

Clemson will make the ACC finals.

― Jeff, Friday, March 11, 2011 9:20 PM (Yesterday)

well, almost

i can't figure out UNC -- getting down by 19 and 16 points to miami & unc isn't a terribly great sign, but they're big inside, have good guards, barnes is seemingly clicking... idk

miami & clemson*

seem like a really good pick to get upset early in the tournament

hoooooooooooooly shit this washington-arizona game

isiah thomas is the truth

excuse me, isaiah

kemba - http://i54.tinypic.com/wbvxx5.gif

UCONN

that was an amazing play by louisville at the end

90% of the time that exact situation (esp w/ no timeouts) ends with a desperation heave at the basket by a guy running 90 mph down the court

winning five games in five days -- four of them against ranked opponents -- is pretty damn impressive

i think we can grab a 2 seed from this

i mean fuck if SDSU is gonna be ahead of us come on

Good start for Duke.

Really good.

yessss

nova, wvu, cuse, marquette all in this east bracket -- guess its hard to split up all hte big east teams

well nova & marqueete will both lose in the first round, so no biggie

p much none of the bracketologists had uab in right

bracketologists

never say this again

i hope illinois gets pwnd

joey brackets & his doctoral colleagues

lol

i used to think that mel kiper jr had the most ridiculous job in the world -- now i think it is joe lunardi

i could understand it if there were play-in games to be the 16th seed but what on earth is this play-in to be an 11th or 12th seed shit

wau kstate is a 5?!?

uf got a hellof a lot more respect than uk

lol @ vtech

that's an awful draw for UF

colorado got fucked the most

yah totally. must be anti-semitism at this point xps to va tech

hahah

crazy that the SEC outbid ACC

big 10 has two teams in with 14 losses

st marys i think would smoke vcu or uab

so what stands out here?

florida doesn't seem like a 2 seed
thought texas and k st might have been one slot higher
uconn is hard to seed cause they didn't have a great season but are on fire; 3 seems right

im pretty satisfied w/ that uconn draw tbh

mizzou hasn't had a great year but they could beat uconn

texas really tanked at the end of the year tho

yea mizzou scares me a bit, tho they were not great on the road right?

kinda feel the committee might not have wanted the better seeded "first 4" games to feature all big conf teams and so got vcu/uab in there as opposed to vtech/colo

feel like the southeast is maybe weakest? kinda seems like ohio state has a pretty hard bracket despite being no. 1 overall.

lol @ jay bilas trending

UCLA is playing sorta crappy right now, but got a 7 against 10 Mich St (which is dangerous), then the weakest 2 seed, then most likely 3 seed BYU (who we beat) or 6 seed St. John's (who we also beat). I want to beliiiiiiieeeeeeeve

Really the whole Southeast bracket is a total crapshoot. Really would like to see Wisconsin vs K-State, especially if they kept cameras on Bo Ryan and Frank Martin the whole game.

Is there an ILX bracket anywhere?

i feel like wisco-k st could be an awesome game -- on the other hand if jacob pullen shot 6-20 the final score could be 44-41 wisconsin

i believe haikunym has made one in the past, but (xp)

have i missed this whole "eye test" thing before or is that new

southeast has most dangerous mid-seeded teams imo: msu, zags, usu, belmont, odu

fivethirtyeight Least favorable draw in field -- accounting for geography -- might be UConn's. Luckiest Florida, Gonzaga or MSU.
18 minutes ago

florida playing in tampa is so rmde

that said i think geography is pretty overrated -- didn't duke beat two texas teams in dallas last year

florida had been pretty locked into tampa for weeks now (ive been paying attn, im going to the games in tampa)

duke beating unc in greensboro today also counts

xp i agree, uconn could outdraw sdsu fan-wise in anaheim easily i think

what is yr team jcrunch?

#uconn

ct huskies yah

just decided a few months ago to go to tampa over like dc or chicago based on weather & price

its more abt having those days off to enjoy like every game

the illinois/kansas matchup will be filled w/ bad blood. i'll be in urbana for that game. kansas will win, but bill self can suck it.

...assuming illinois beats unlv, of course.

http://ncaabracket.nytimes.com/2011/bracket/men/fivethirtyeight-forecast

zzzzzzzzz

Nate has come to the shocking conclusion that all four #1 seeds have the greatest statistical chance of getting to the Final Four. Stunning!

he boldly chose three of the #9 seeds and two of the #10s tho

I've played a bracket the last five years w/o ever watching the season or researching my picks and I actually won once. This year I picked Syracuse to go all the way. My pick: smart or dumb?

Its all a crap shoot.

yea feel like brackets are mostly abt a) luck b) patterns - like it doesnt really matter who you pick as long as you take one 12 over 5 upset etc

i had missed this, but a hearty lol goes out to gary williams, whose maryland terrapins were not even invited to the nit.

"I guess there are different reasons why you pick teams, other than based on the ability of the team," Williams said.

As he has earlier this season, Williams suggested that part of that is a result of more effective lobbying.

"Next year, I think we're going to be a very good team, and I'm going to talk a lot about how good we're going to be. The Big East has done that consistently; the Big Ten has done that consistently. The ACC has to do a better job talking about how good its teams are."

the world is always so mean to gary

Hi dudes!

guess whos blindly doing a bracket this year? Am kind of psyched, followed the tournament last year and got caught up in the excitement, giving it a proper whirl this year to see how I do. (Not a crazy bball fan but I enjoy college hoops well enough)

First lesson: when they say "Oakland" they don't mean OAKLAND

Someone should set up an ilx one. Is yahoo the best site?

I can do it when I get home

I've joined a yahoo one through work, and it's really easy peasy

h8 play-in games but that was entertaining tbh

get this shit off my tv

when are charles and kenny coming on

lol

when are charles and kenny coming on

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

old man style posting

Hand me my shotgun

ha

for real tho play-in games are fucking depressing i hate to think about the team that doesn't actually get to make it to the tournament, so fucked up

Yeah the concept seems kind of mean and pitying

i need someone who understands this shit to explain the expansion to 68 teams to me

they want to play as many games as possible because they'll make more money but there was a public outrage over them expanding the field to 96 or whatever they wanted to do so i guess they just settled on 68

it doesn't seem to make much sense to me, feel like the ad dollars they make on uab-clemson has to be negligible to the CBS corporation but what do i know

the good thing tho is that it lead to them getting tbs & court tv into the fold so all the games are on TV now, also charles & kenny

it feels really arbitrary that two teams will play each other to be #12, while #s 13, 14, 15, and 16 (in two cases anyway) are slotted into the dance.

this simmons/chad ford podcast is really cool, talking about all the top prospects (sullinger, kyrie, jimmer, barnes etc) http://espn.go.com/espnradio/player?rd=1#/podcenter/?autoplay=1&callsign=ESPNRADIO&id=6216943

<3 chad ford

it feels really arbitrary that two teams will play each other to be #12, while #s 13, 14, 15, and 16 (in two cases anyway) are slotted into the dance.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah i think the problem is that they needed to get better teams into the game aside from "who gets to get blown to pieces by the #1 overall team" but anything over the 12 seed would be punishing some of the better teams -- idk, it's stupid

expansion is so classic "wow everyone loves this great thing!! We should make more money off it and make it ridiculously big and make more money and ultimately destroy the thing that everyone loved about it OMG YESSSSS "

yeah as far as the casual fan is concerned nothing starts until there's exactly 64, so it punishes these teams even more.

no one even bothers incorporating this shit into bracket pools either

I know I didn't

yeah well they make it tough even if you wanted to--selection on sunday, first game tuesday night, you'd have to be hardcore

I am so very not hardcore

kyrie irving has been cleared to play o_O

yeah i saw that -- have to wonder how much impact he'll have tho he hasn't played in what like 3 months? also he only played like 8 games with the team -- idk i think that dude is amazing but we'll see

yeah it's hard to say, but it seems unlikely to make them worse anyway

yeah that's pretty much what i concluded

wow uab looks terrible

so the winner of this game has to fly to tampa tonight, have a mandatory press conference tomorrow, then play at noon on thursday. smdh

they deserve it esp if it's UAB

they've got a full day with just a presser--that's not really that bad imo

would join ilx pool

sheeit yeah i'll set it up tomorrow afternoon

Cool I knew my first draft bracket would come in handy

So uh I haven't watched college basketball ever but I enjoyed watching Kentucky last year for the NBA players and St Mary's were p. fun - what should I try and catch this time?

kentucky again

oh yeah also ilx 2011 ncaa tournament pool

pathetic performance from usc tonight

i don't recall ever seeing the *losing* team dribble out the clock out at half court wtf

clemson shat away a 9 pt lead in like 1m

yep...

whoever is doing the color for clemson-wvu sounds exactly like mike mayock to me

that is jim spenarkel

i'm just pretending that it's mike mayock

it is only the first game of the first day and i am ready to kill whoever greenlighted these napa auto parts ads.

the hanes guy and the talking babies get it next. then the magical green line that tells you what to do in life. then the light beer with the rifled bottle for the smoother pour (the skinny jeans guy is ok tho).

really tired of people calling forwards/centers "bigs"

kind of love bob huggins

"bigs" is a great term imo

#lesshead

the most head

^

http://nuwildroots.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/onions.jpg

Game show host Chuck Woolery, QB/broadcaster Phil Simms and Billy Ray Cyrus all attended Morehead State.

btw fuck this guy

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/197374_999804087590_15924154_50640238_2267906_n.jpg

fucking wild first day

this has been unreal

Every time one game ends, it is the second half of a close game on another channel. I feel like the four channel thing, the additional schedule staggering, and the Turner Sports guys have somehow combined to improve the best televised sports day in all of televised sports.

also all the announcing teams are great

stuffed by a princeton dude!

think im gonna have a heart attack today

so what happened in the morehead state game? it looks like their starters couldn't buy a bucket and 2 bench guys scored all their points.

holy shit @ all of this

Good luck, Talor Battle. I wish you well in Europe...

I hope Vanderbilt loses, I hate that team

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/567553/pitinofacepalm_medium.png

lol

wtf @ "teach me how to jimmer"

this Lamb kid for UConn looks good. kinda like this team.

scalped 3 afternoon session tix for denver for $50 at like 11:45 MDT, went over after lunch/beers and saw the last 5 mins of louiville/morehead, then watched vandy/richmond. so much fun. we were able to move down to lowest level for 2nd half of richmond.

no beer at all allowed at ncaa tourney venue was the biggest upset of the day btw.

Jimmer is crazy fun to watch in this game - I guess he's always like this! Just taking every possession from back before halfcourt and sprinting like crazy into a crowd and making layups.

some horrible shots being taken in the byu-wofford game. like everyone's taking inspiration from jimmer's jumpers.

tampa was selling beer in certain areas it was like a speakeasy but they finally had 2 cut it..im hammered & had 2 get a coffee

ucla/msu is setting bball back 50 yts

yrs

Do not care as long as we win.

i think the wisconsin-belmont game took place pre-antebellum

Good to see Enterprise has changed up their commercials. I couldn't take another year of "Mom?!!" or "I'm at the Repair Shop" or "Both?!".

ucla cheerleaders for the win

cincy looks good

Aargh, why can't UCLA just get a lead and then hold onto that lead without things getting all interesting. I guess it is better than the other default gameplan (half-ass the first half, come charging through the second and maybe win or else not), but still.

things have gotten pretty interesting

yikes @ this whole thing

shit, if that goes down...

wtffffffffffff

wow that shot

is this reparations for ucla's miracle comeback vs gonzaga?

this is crazy cuz those two free throws by honeycutt weren't even bad or anything, they just bounced out of the hoop

imo UCLA should not even fuck around w/ inbounding under their own basket -- just throw it down to the opposite foul line & let it play out

Jeez ucla is going to kill me

well that could've ended up worse for mich st...

wow that's a rough call

not like they were gonna make a shot anyway

tough call 4 sure

i'm always a fan of missing the second shot in that situation because getting a rebound, going up the floor and getting a good shot off w/ anything less than like 7 or 8 seconds left is damn near impossible

Okay this march madness thing is stressful!

no way in hell do you want to miss the second shot only up 2

the NBA has so many better rules than college but being able to advance the ball has to be #1

st johns is going to ruin me

it was prob a bad sign when their best player blew out his ACL

The multiple dead ball fouls just about killed me. The part where Zeke Jones got called for an offensive foul for running into a dude after getting tripped was awful. The fact that we couldn't hit free throws at the end there was really really upsetting. But UCLA survived, and advanced, and fuck everything else but that.

I will see Tom Izzo in HELL.

i haven't seen UCLA play all year, looked decent tonight & UF is the worst 2 seed by far

<3 that big fat ass they have -- feel like neuheisel must be plotting

Yeah Josh Smith is tremendous when he is not in foul trouble (which to his credit he has been in very rarely during the second half of the year). There were multiple games where the other team just didn't have anybody who could take the ball away from him or get in his way or anything.

Neuheisel did just sign the brother of Reeves Nelson (the surly-lookin white dude with one million tattoos), also.

lol i saw that guy on the bench and was kinda like http://www.gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=977945&t=o

the good thing about being in a money bracket pool that is 95% mizzou grads is that A LOT of people picked louisivlle to beat kansas out of pure hatred (i am not amongst these people)

god dammit st johns

lol u r a big east homer that was a v obvious upset

btw utah st has cut k st's lead to 6 and is getting the ball once this commercial break is thru

at least like 2 times today i forgot what channel i had my TV on and saw a gamebreak for the game that i thought i was watching

lol, cbs is swtiching between 4 dift streams right now

I picked St John's to make the Sweet 16 in one or two of my brackets largely out of a desire to see them play and lose to UCLA again. I got all hung up on Steve Lavin going to the Sweet 16 and no further all those years, and forgot about the time UCLA got 12-5'd by Detroit Mercy.

I am real excited about K-State vs Wisconsin, and the winner of that against Pitt.

wisconsin's offense is extremely efficient but the problem with having a bunch of 6' 10" white guys that bomb from 3 is that you end up being kinda terrible at defense esp in the interior which shouldn't be a prob vs k st but pitt should wreck them

"bigs" is a great term imo

― kl0p's son (k3vin k.)

see now you are trolling me : /

that's just awful

ucla/msu was the worst live sporting event I've ever been at...and we left w/ ucla up 11 on the ft line w/ under 2m left

fighting irish

tristan thompson <3

jesus this game

I got home with a minute and a half left in Mason-Nova. I wish Gus Johnson was on my TV every time I came home.

gus is seriously a wizard or something -- every game he does is insane

zona-memphis has been incredibly entertaining

memphis coach <3

DERRICK WILLIAMS

that guy is amazing

http://grab.by/9ytT

http://grab.by/9ytR

In the second photo, Williams looks to be completely vertical.

oh shit i get to see the beginning of my alma mater get beat down by ku

whoa cad did you go to BU

took most of the game but they finally crashed and burned

clark kellogg just said "trey thompkins, showing you his full package!"

whoa cad did you go to BU

― ciderpress, Friday, March 18, 2011 7:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah dude! only saw a bit but hell, they made it a game for a bit over a half. they can go home proud.

VCU look awesome, making Georgetown look really lumpen and slow.

Rick Jackson, basically a beast.

Georgetown has looked really lumpen and slow for the past month or so. I dunno what to make of VCU, they looked pretty cruddy in the USC game (but USC was cruddier), and then they looked good tonight, but Georgetown just collapsed on themselves, as is their custom. JT III is maybe not so comfortable in his own skin right now, there's only so far he can keep going on his dad and the 2007 tournament.

yeah dude! only saw a bit but hell, they made it a game for a bit over a half. they can go home proud.

― call all destroyer, Friday, March 18, 2011 11:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

neat, i was class of '09. so the bball team kinda sucked the whole time i was there

but yeah they were doing real well considering that they seemed completely overmatched by kansas's defense

loved rick jackson too

great games today!

go temple (juan fernandez <3)!!!

also only a miracle to make that lovely brad stevens team resist to pitt :`(

neat, i was class of '09. so the bball team kinda sucked the whole time i was there

but yeah they were doing real well considering that they seemed completely overmatched by kansas's defense

― ciderpress, Saturday, March 19, 2011 2:05 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh awesome, i was '06, and yeah this team is miles better than what we used to have afaict.

this game

I didn't watch all of the Kentucky game but they might give Ohio St. a run for their money (assuming Ohio St. moves on)

That Mazzola (?) dude from West Virginia was pretty great to watch...didnt see the end of the game but they were keeping Kentucky on their toes

yeah that dude is nuts

uf-ucla has been great

stuck at supermarket, following it on my phone :(

the impressive guy from wv/kentucky was the big white dude on the wildcats; he was really putting in work in what was a v. tough, physical game.

yeah thebig dude w all the rebounds.. wotsisname...dude was a workhorse

he was basically the reason why they beat princeton the other day

was he the one they were saying lost all the weight, that before he couldnt do 45 second sprint, now he can go for 3 min?

big guy from kentucky
http://new.kentuckysportsradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/josh2.jpg

oh hi

wow erving walker

what a massive and long shot

erving walker is so bad at basketball

it's gonna be hilarious when UF loses next weekend during a game where erving walker shoots 1/7 from 3

lol ucla

lol greg gumbel just zinged rick pitino

this game is eternal. i'm really wishing i hadn't picked sd state for the final four

the offensive sets both of these teams have been running are AWFUL

sdsu would be so lucky to win this game after blowing the end of game possession at the end of both the second half and first OT

I was too distracted crushing on Jimmer...guess I should switch over

eternal in the sense of lasting forever, not in the sense of being timeless

uh well it's over doh lol...back to Jimmer

BYU needs to lose now.

>:(

don't make him break the code vegemitegrrl

There's a code?

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20470774,00.html

oh THAT code

I wouldn't do that to Jimmer... (whistles)

Bet he is real good at holding hands

I'll stop now

omg this game is ridic

maybe don't foul so much folks

wow Butler

i forgot butler's coach just had his bar mitzvah

that was the most absurd chain of events that i think i've ever seen in a basketball game

that intentional foul call on cincy = worst call of the tourney, easy

terrible call lol

agreed that call was wack

i know you guys aren't watching this game but the orange haired dude from wisco hit a huge 3 a couple minutes ago and ran up the floor with a huge goofy ass grin on his face

http://i52.tinypic.com/ajtmv6.jpg

no i saw that and it was great

bad foul call there on shabazz

lol at kemba hitting a 3 and tbs cutting to his family just in time to catch some dude in a kemba jersey throwing up gang signs

this is great

lukewinn Luke Winn
When the Butler game was 62-60, the DVR on the TV in Arizona's locker room (being used by SDSU) tried to switch to record Jersey Shore.

lol

if they ever do a rick petino movie they need to have richard lewis play him

otm

good call there

just got cable back after power outage (frakkin wind)...Carolina Washington pretty good ball game atm

Bad officiating.

god college players are so fucking dumb sometimes

washington heaves the ball from halfcourt with 3 seconds left, john henson tries to catch an airball for no reason, washington then shoots a TWO pointer, and then john henson almost goaltends

seriously wtf is wrong w/ ppl

yeah that whole sequence got ridiculousy wtf

He only had .5 to shoot, I don't think the two was out of stupidity, just not enough time. The rest though, stupid

cbs should have a mike breen button so that no matter who's calling the game, when someone makes a 3, the disembodied voice of breen shouts "BANG"

lol

These interviews with John Adams are infuriating. The excuse for leaving .5 clock was absurd.

"natural lag time"

You should correct human error whenever possible, not attribute it to the response time of a ref.

LETS GO BIG BLUE

lol wtf happened in this game i thought it was safe to walk away when duke extended it to 10

nantz is annoying the hell outta me w/ the "coming back from the basement of the big 10" storyline

tim hardaway jr happened!

hardaway jr is an alumni of my high school

he's the only good bball player we've had in like 50 years of existence

Gahhh duke jesus

Holy sheeeeeeeeit

aaargh fuck duke

... and advance.

except for bracket allegiances, Michigan almost deserved to win that, Duke fell way off their defense

except Michigan missed a lot of shots early in the game so, shrug

Smith made some ridiculously WOW shots

if texas wins that could be a good game -- they're kinda bi-polar, but if they're playing well you get a team that many ppl considered to be a top 5 team for like half the season

mich got a tad screwed by the ball bouncing out of bounds on that missed dawkins three but they got a really good shot off esp considering how young the team is -- it seemed like duke didn't realize how much time was left and stopped defending the guy once it became clear that he was running past the 3 pt line

lol guys gus johnson is already popping -- "dooooooooooowntooooooooooooown cleveland"

guys its gustime

lmao this guy sounds like he'd narrate Disney World commrecials

damn duke and carolina almost lost on the same day but then neither of them did

I've never heard a gus johnson called game. That I'm aware of. I actually mute the TV a lot.

Gus is great on basketball. Not a fan of his football calls so much.

think the law of gus is not happening today

gus is amazing for basketball -- football doesn't necessarily suit his temperament as much, also for some reason cbs still has him doing the worst AFC game in the given week

usually involving the raiders, broncos, bengals or browns

yup

i think his intensity suits basketball well...football isnt as crazy

he'd be great for hockey

OTM

Coach Shaka Smart developed a love for quotations at Kenyon College. Smart began writing down quotes into a word document that is now over 110 pages long. citation needed wheres the citation at?

Haha

j'covan what a name jesus

Was just thinking the same thing...sounds like a brand of furniture

what about the mustache?

http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/02/38/60/image_8660382.jpg

Webster!

jesussssssssssssssss

Holy Christ on a crabcake

zomg

wau 5 seconds