#NuAIDS Time-Delayed Madness – Last Day of Gluttony

I miss the daily orgy of hoopsball already, don’t you?

7W Oregon (+5) v. 2W Iowa (12:10, CBS)

Talk about wildly over/under-performing expectations.  The Pac-12 has been on fire, whilst the B1G has been a dumpster fire.  This is a pretty tough ask of Quack Attack, though.

8W Oklahoma (+14) v. 1W Gonzaga (2:40, CBS)

Media-beloved Zags easily covered a 33.5-point spread in Round 1.  That should make me gunshy about saying this 14-point chasm is way too much, but I’m not the kind of fella who learns from his mistakes.

14E Abilene Christian (+4.5) v. 11E UCLA (5:15, TBS)

This has been quite the dance for the religiously-inclined.  Unless you’re a Stormin’ Mormon.  I wonder if UCLA even packed their home uniforms?

13W Ohio (+5.5) v. 5W Creighton (6:10, TNT)

They made it past the 5/12 landmine, but Creigh-Creigh is super perimeter-oriented, and such sides are always prone to being upset.  Is it really a Bananacakes Torneo without some MAC-tion in the Sweet 16?

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King Hippo
Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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scotchnaut

Simmons kid will be looking for his cheeseburger slices in the locker room at half-time.

“WTF, just oranges???”

Horatio Cornblower

Well, everything else in this tournament is coming up Orange.

scotchnaut

The pace of this tilt is silly and if Abilene could hit a layup they’d be way up.

scotchnaut

The Abilene Drought is finally over!

Fronkenshteen

ACU looks much the best. How off-the-reservation fundamentalist are they?

scotchnaut

Lots of energy-team probably handled a bunch of snakes before the game to get their juices flowing.

/I’m sorta pulling for the 6’5″, 265 forward that seems to have no issues defending out at the perimeter. Simmons #3.

SonOfSpam

comment NAWT aging well

Fronkenshteen

Fronkenmush

scotchnaut

Shitty west coast team vs shitty Christian college team. Screw it, I’m in!

SonOfSpam

Duke-lookin honky was really good.

Still wanna slap him like Louise and the boy band guy.

Downfield Matriculator

Bill Walton’s Conference of Champions looking pretty solid despite national pollsters lack of love.

Clearly I should have smoked some of whatever Bill uses before picking my brackets as I could hardly be in worse shape and I would have had more fun!

Downfield Matriculator

Anything announced by Curt Gowdy takes me back to when men were men and shorts were short. Second best NC State tourney run after the the 83 Jimmy V team IMHO, but I’ll defer to you real Wolven fans. Anyway, I always loved hoops and I was about 7 years old when this game was played. Could have been this game or earlier in UCLA’s run, but I remember watching a game with grandpa and my dad. My gramps lettered in baseball and track at Purdue and knew John Wooden, and so always had a soft spot for UCLA . My dad thought Walton was amazingly agile for a big man and pointed out to me then that Walton’s vertical jump would clear my head without him even bending his knees. I was just happy they allowed me to sip or two from their Stroh’s when the womenfolk were out of the TV room. Anyway, I am obviously a hell of a lot older now, but only slightly taller — at this point Bill is not agile enough to jump me even if he could bend his knees! I have Cal season tickets and went up to him and shook his hand at a game he was announcing in the pre-pandemic times. He was good natured about it so not all pro sportsball players turn into assholes.

/end of rambling old guy story with no real point

Last edited 3 years ago by Downfield Matriculator
SonOfSpam

Elgin Baylor died before the Clippers. Kind of an upset.

SonOfSpam

I think the announcer, in honor of Gonzaga’s big man (Timme), just did a South Park “TIMMAY” or at least I hope that happened.
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scotchnaut

B1G proving once again that growing up around corn fields/racist family members does not a good basketball player make, no matter how tall you are.

SonOfSpam

Kneel before your Pac-12 gods!

SonOfSpam

(White Lion voice) WHEN THE GARZA CRY

Downfield Matriculator

Did you also give up the backdoor repeatedly?

/Wait, nevermind, I don’t really need to know that

scotchnaut

It completely fucking escaped me that there are games being played today. I watched basketball all day yesterday-I’m willing to bet that today’s games were referenced many times. What is it like getting dementia? Do you recognize it in the early stages?

scotchnaut

Hold me, Hippo-I don’t like this brave new world.

WCS

Shut up, and enjoy your next Sweet Sixteen run.

/NO YOU’RE ANGRY

Sharkbait

I’m now in 2nd place in the DFO bracket. You should all be ashamed.

Sharkbait

You’ve presumably watched a college basketball game in the last three years though.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I am ashamed, but it has nothing to do with my bracket.