The Swamp

Somewhere, an old-time Swamper named Hilltopper is surely quite pleased with that first half.

Scottie wrote:Somewhere, an old-time Swamper named Hilltopper is surely quite pleased with that first half.

I'm pretty sure one of my best friends, who's a WKU grad, is either very drunk or very nervous right now. I'm leaning toward the former.

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Shirley wrote:What's funny (statistically) is that the women's game has much less parity and talent depth than the men's game, but yet a 16 has beaten a 1 in their tournament.

Yikes. I had to look that one up. #16 Harvard defeating #1 Stanford in 1998. I would have guessed that was the debating societies or chess clubs.

Dan Bonner, who was doing color commentary of the Syracuse-Montana game last night, pulled that one out of thin air during all the second half filler material (they came around to it from talking about the Harvard win yesterday and Montana's coach's daughter playing for Stanford now). Play-by-play guy asked him if he actually knew it or if the producer in the TV truck told it to him through his headset.

Oh, yes. Georgetown's last two games as a member of the traditional Big East were a loss to Syracuse and a loss to a 15-seed. I am amused.

Scottie wrote:Caught a few minutes of that '81 final (Indiana with Isiah Thomas beating North Carolina with James Worthy and Sam Perkins) on ESPN Classic a few days ago. Great stuff.

That game was played the same day that Reagan was shot. They postponed the Oscars, also scheduled for that night, but played the game.

The joke in around IU is that the Bloomington paper was the only one in the country where the assassination attempt wasn't the lead story.

A piece on Brad Stevens. Not a great article (and he missed the landing, wrong word choice on his closing line), but makes an excellent point about the coach.

Why is Brad Stevens so good? Here you go

If only Memphis got to play against teams that don't have a coach.

Sorry to all the Swampers whose teams were bounced today. Keg & I had a money line bet on the University of the Streets. That was a loser.

Looking bad for St. Louis right now. #bestfans

They miss Coach Majerus. #breastfans

Butler-Marquette has been marvelous. Butler has one last gasp. Because dude named Rodney, but spelled "Rotnei" shot an air ball. And he is white.

It's too bad that utterly brilliant fullcourt inbounds play will be forgotten while that derpy final inbounds play is remembered.

Wichita State traveled three times in the same possession. Zags should've fouled anyway. Bad day for bulldogs.

At what point does Mark Few say "fuck this" and take millions to go coach in a power conference? They won't be offering millions if he waits too long.

Rex wrote:At what point does Mark Few say "fuck this" and take millions to go coach in a power conference? They won't be offering millions if he waits too long.

I think if he was going to leave, he would have done it a long time ago.

Have we considered that maybe, just maybe, Mark Few really isn't that great of a coach? I mean, Gonzaga's best run in the tournament was with Dan Monson, not Few ('99 Elite 8, lost to champ UConn in the last minute). Sure, Gonzaga always runs through their conference, but they've underwhelmed when it comes to the tournament.

Few may be afraid of suffering Dan Munson's fate. His predecessor failed at Minnesota, ended up in the not-so-Big West.

I think the end of that Syracuse-Cal game included 2-3 pickle rolls.

Hope we get some better games today -- yesterday didn't live up to usual tournament standards.

"They were gonna win but, fuckin', tall-ass motherfucker scored like six points in, like, two seconds. I was like, what?!?"


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Rex wrote:It's too bad that utterly brilliant fullcourt inbounds play will be forgotten while that derpy final inbounds play is remembered.

The latter was made possible by Marquette's previous colossally stupid inbound attempt. Two guys on opposite sides of the court at the backcourt line, both being face guarded by a defender. Why not a high-arcing lob pass further downcourt to one of them with instructions to simply bat the ball away from Butler's basket and their defender (I am redundant with "high-arcing lob pass" to stress the importance of avoiding a "line-drive" pass that goes out of bounds untouched at the far end of the court to give Butler the ball under their basket)? With a two-point lead and three seconds left and the ball, isn't this an easy way to really reduce the chances of Butler from getting a shot? Once the ball is touched, the clock is running and a Butler player must chase it down, then heave it or call time out before time elapses.

You can all breathe a sigh of relief. UVA has won again in the NIT, beating St. John's 68-50. One more win and UVA heads to MSG.

46 of UVA's 68 points came from freshmen. The future's still looking pretty good in cville.

Rex wrote:"They were gonna win but, fuckin', tall-ass motherfucker scored like six points in, like, two seconds. I was like, what?!?"


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Pretty funny. The Harvard one: "Me and my professor are gonna come in to watch the game". But that 'Bees is in Chestnut Hill, not Cambridgel; trust they would know the Boston College score.

Wow. Big balls on that shot by tOSU.

In the last 15-20 seconds, Craft maybe once even glanced at a team-mate before knocking down that three. Heck of a start to Sunday's games.

looking forward to FGCU!!!

But I believe that #15s have never won a 2nd round match. Always get blown out.

Hoosiers need to pound it into Zeller. Foul those Temple bigs out of the game.

eta: Kaylef Wyatt is just ridic.

watford with just a ridiculous block.

zeller hits both and were tied with 1:45 or so.

watford was slow to rotate. But I won't dwell on the negative. That whole defensive sequence was great. Specially Zeller's double on Wyatt.

That was your inbound play to get the ball to Wyatt? Not too good, Fran Dunphy.

Big time finish by Oladipo. Good decision by Zeller to pass out.

that relaford coast-to-coast* play was pretty sweet.

*- narrow coasts, to be sure.

Remind me again if it's good or bad if the ball goes through that orange thing.

I don't think I've ever seen a team shoot 5-30 and be in the lead before.


eta 5-29. I'm anticipating a miss, though.

They're a combined 17% through roughly 14 minutes.

OT, but I don't want to start a new thread. I see 60 minutes is covering the punk rock girl band in Russia that was brutally sentenced to long prison terms for a simple protest. My question: did Leslie Stahl say "Pussy Riot" on the teevee?

Not watching, but please let us know if the croc eats Anderson Cooper. Please.

Pussy Riot was said. (after she stated that it may offend some viewers.)

Why does Subaru insist on running an ad that makes me cry every 15 minutes?

Eh? Does the Subaru die trying to save a busload of puppies from going over a cliff?

Scottie wrote:Eh? Does the Subaru die trying to save a busload of puppies from going over a cliff?

Pretty close to that, actually.

hahahahahaha