Your “Selection Sunday” Evening Open Thread

The obvious highlight of the evening will be arguing about who is & isn’t in the NCAA tournament. It will take James Brown & Company about two hours to read off 64 team names, more if they actually have the play-in games HOLY SHIT, they are. The play-in, or “First Four” games are on Thursday, and then the first round goes Friday-Monday. There’s no chance a COVID outbreak doesn’t get brought into the arena by some water boy or one of Indianapolis’ finest mouthbreathing Pence voters.

That would appear to be the most ludicrous proposition of the tournament, but then Michigan State went ahead this week & renamed their program, “MSU Spartans Presented by Rocket Mortgage”, and logo’d up Tom Izzo like a NASCAR driver.

But it’s a fucking sin if the players get paid.

Of course, there are a number of prop bets to be had for such an event:

• How will the NCAA collude to get Duke in?
• It’s been more than 40 years since John Wooden. Why is UCLA considered ‘relevant’?
• Gonzaga vs Notre Dame – who is more Catholic?
• No Cameron Crazies? But how will I know the rich are wating their youth?
  • Never mind – they’ve been ordered to stay on campus.
• Could any of these teams beat the T-wolves?
• Given all the journalists attending, will they run out of gravy in Indianapolis?
• In honour of Seamus – will U*NC have more players on COVID or academic suspension?
• Seriously, how can they have a tourney without Coach K?

All I know is that my arse will be on a couch Friday morning praying there’s a huge upset, so I can hear Hippo gleefully laughing all the way up here in Canada.

Tonight’s sports:

• NCAA:
  • Selection show – 6:00pm | CBS
• NHL:
  • Toronto vs Ottawa – 7:00pm | Sportsnet
• NBA:
  • San Antonio vs Philadelphia – 6:30pm | NBATV / Sportsnet1
  • Toronto vs Chicago – 9:00pm | TSN4
  • LA Clippers vs New Orleans – 9:00pm | ESPN / Sportsnet1
• Curling:
  • Brier Final – 8:30pm | TSN

Get to the bickering!