Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:10 pm
If we were in person I could make a similar joke for the other game that just got interesting
The Swamp
It's the sixth version of The Swamp. What could possibly go wrong?
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2023 March Madness Thread
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Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:45 pm
No coach no!
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:47 pm
Yeah, man. Sorry he stopped there.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:08 pm
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:18 pm
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:21 pm
Kinda sad Grant Wahl isn’t around to see this.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:27 pm
My sister and nephew were at the Arkansas upset. She's a Mizzou grad, so they were quite happy with the result.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:33 pm
For how long?
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:52 pm
sc noooooo these are never real
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:07 pm
He’s too busy watching proposal and kiss cam fail videos to see this.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:38 pm
You calling jlo a liar?
(even searching the archives Shirley provided I can only find one good reference to this event and it wasn’t the original and was in a pretty ugly thread so no link)
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:56 pm
I destroyed a tv when Uk lost it Wisconsin in final four.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:17 pm
I once ripped a hat and was annoyed enough about my lost $20.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:54 pm
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:57 pm
Are there like a ton of posts missing from this thread from the last few hours because it's all extremely confusing.
But yes, Rass, that looks exactly like the TV I busted throwing a tiny stuffed animal at it and didn't realize it had a porcelain bottom. It wasn't even a Steelers game.
But yes, Rass, that looks exactly like the TV I busted throwing a tiny stuffed animal at it and didn't realize it had a porcelain bottom. It wasn't even a Steelers game.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:13 pm
According to the FB post, it was because I thought Wes Welker who was on my fantasy team caught a TD, and then it ended up being the Patriots other white wide receiver.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:33 am
jlo was just a trendsetter and everyone now pretends to copy him for internet cloutrass wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:38 pmYou calling jlo a liar?
(even searching the archives Shirley provided I can only find one good reference to this event and it wasn’t the original and was in a pretty ugly thread so no link)
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:48 am
The basketball remains terrible but if you’re gonna give me poor man’s Chet Holmgren except there’s two of them and they’re from the Canary Islands, I’ll hang in there
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:57 am
Oh look, another blowout when there is no other game on for some dumb reason!
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:47 pm
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:49 pm
There was a time, say, 20 years ago (?) when the Sweet 16 games wrapped up by 7p EST on Sunday, which meant you had overlap on game starts/endings. That’s where a lot of the madness came in. When every game has its own exclusive stage, it’s not so high on the madness factor.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:33 pm
every game doesn't have its own exclusive time. just four games over the entire weekend are on in their own windows. the other 12 all overlap in various capacities
eta: that's not a defense of the way it's set up. ideally they'd all be staggered an hourish apart after tipping off at Noon ET. but CBS gets to call the shots with this TV deal and it wants the first three games
eta: that's not a defense of the way it's set up. ideally they'd all be staggered an hourish apart after tipping off at Noon ET. but CBS gets to call the shots with this TV deal and it wants the first three games
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:49 pm
I’m not just saying this entirely because my wife and I are both top 3 in a 135 person pool but there should be periodic payouts. It shouldn’t just be about choosing the eventual winner. Unless that eventual winner is UCLA or Houston.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:50 pm
45 minutes(?) or whatever is the standard length of a first half?Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:33 pm every game doesn't have its own exclusive time. just four games over the entire weekend are on in their own windows. the other 12 all overlap in various capacities
eta: that's not a defense of the way it's set up. ideally they'd all be staggered an hourish apart after tipping off at Noon ET. but CBS gets to call the shots with this TV deal and it wants the first three games
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:43 pm
The pool I’m in does that. Those at #1 after each round wins a %.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:48 pm
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:50 pm
first game officially starts at 12:10 p.m. ET and it's eight games at four sites where one ticket at each site gains you entry to both games (AKA the games at each site aren't spaced out by more than a half hour or so)mister d wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:50 pm45 minutes(?) or whatever is the standard length of a first half?Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:33 pm every game doesn't have its own exclusive time. just four games over the entire weekend are on in their own windows. the other 12 all overlap in various capacities
eta: that's not a defense of the way it's set up. ideally they'd all be staggered an hourish apart after tipping off at Noon ET. but CBS gets to call the shots with this TV deal and it wants the first three games
basically that's the long way of saying hourish is +/- 20 each way if you did a true stagger start and there have been more than a few games already this weekend that have gone 2:20 or so because of all the damn commercials and reviews
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 4:13 pm
Gotcha. I was thinking it’s no better for most if Game 2 goes off as halftime of Game 1 is just ending.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 4:43 pm
Really thought we had that one.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:17 pm
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:35 pm
I really need Miami to hold on in this one. Not only is Miami the only ACC team left, but my bil and sil both picked Indiana to win it all in the family pool.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:48 pm
Short of a collapse the size of Maryland v Duke 20-ish years ago? Miami has this one in the bag.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:16 pm
Did Drew Timme just drop an F-Bomb on national TV?
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:04 am
Yes...yes, he did.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:19 pm
Losing to Kentucky isn't humiliating, but losing your coach (who was born in Providence!) to the basement of your own conference? Yikes.Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:02 pm PC didn't even play that poorly tonight. Kentucky dudes are just bigger, faster, and stronger. They don't look like any team I've seen in the Big East this year. I guess the fact that our superstar player transferred from Kentucky due to lack of PT should have clued me in.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:58 pm
Georgetown has been a sleeping giant for the past few decades. In all honesty, they have a national brand on relatively the same level as the blue bloods.mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:19 pmLosing to Kentucky isn't humiliating, but losing your coach (who was born in Providence!) to the basement of your own conference? Yikes.Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:02 pm PC didn't even play that poorly tonight. Kentucky dudes are just bigger, faster, and stronger. They don't look like any team I've seen in the Big East this year. I guess the fact that our superstar player transferred from Kentucky due to lack of PT should have clued me in.
It only takes the right coach to awaken the beast.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:47 pm
It does with us old dudes. Does anyone under the age of 30 care about Georgetown? Their last significant players retired from the NBA years ago.EnochRoot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:58 pmGeorgetown has been a sleeping giant for the past few decades. In all honesty, they have a national brand on relatively the same level as the blue bloods.mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:19 pmLosing to Kentucky isn't humiliating, but losing your coach (who was born in Providence!) to the basement of your own conference? Yikes.Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:02 pm PC didn't even play that poorly tonight. Kentucky dudes are just bigger, faster, and stronger. They don't look like any team I've seen in the Big East this year. I guess the fact that our superstar player transferred from Kentucky due to lack of PT should have clued me in.
It only takes the right coach to awaken the beast.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:54 pm
It’s even more complicated than that. They have an endowment, but it’s pretty modest compared to its peers (top 20-25 academic institution in the USA), because of some rather limited-in-scope Jesuit direction long ago. They’ve been playing catch-up for the 21st century.Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:47 pmIt does with us old dudes. Does anyone under the age of 30 care about Georgetown? Their last significant players retired from the NBA years ago.EnochRoot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:58 pmGeorgetown has been a sleeping giant for the past few decades. In all honesty, they have a national brand on relatively the same level as the blue bloods.mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:19 pmLosing to Kentucky isn't humiliating, but losing your coach (who was born in Providence!) to the basement of your own conference? Yikes.Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:02 pm PC didn't even play that poorly tonight. Kentucky dudes are just bigger, faster, and stronger. They don't look like any team I've seen in the Big East this year. I guess the fact that our superstar player transferred from Kentucky due to lack of PT should have clued me in.
It only takes the right coach to awaken the beast.
So long as they’re an attractive option for NIL, they should remain that sleeping giant.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:59 pm
I'd love for Georgetown (and St. John's) to return to mattering, but from Providence's standpoint given all the factors, that seems pretty awful.
Re: 2023 March Madness Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:54 pm
In the general vicinity of this Big East discussion, Rick Pitino is now the HC at St. Johns.