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?
Simmons kid will be looking for his cheeseburger slices in the locker room at half-time.
“WTF, just oranges???”
Well, everything else in this tournament is coming up Orange.
The pace of this tilt is silly and if Abilene could hit a layup they’d be way up.
The Abilene Drought is finally over!
ACU looks much the best. How off-the-reservation fundamentalist are they?
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.
comment NAWT aging well
Fronkenmush
Shitty west coast team vs shitty Christian college team. Screw it, I’m in!
Steerfuckers North sure put up a fight. Full credit to ’em.
Duke-lookin honky was really good.
Still wanna slap him like Louise and the boy band guy.
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!
My favoUrite thing about Bill Walton (ok, after his hairdo with the Blazers) is how very much not over 1974 is.
/NC State beat them in the Raging Semis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrJb3f6-1c
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
I am certain I watched this game live on NBC, but I was like 9 months old, so memory is hazy!
Bill Walton, David Thompson, and Lenny Elmore were all freaks of nature. 1974 was a special time in college hoopsball.
Elgin Baylor died before the Clippers. Kind of an upset.
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.
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.
That’s Just Quackers!
Kneel before your Pac-12 gods!
(White Lion voice) WHEN THE GARZA CRY
You can tell we’ve entered garbage time, Iowa has put its Black guy in.
Iowa defends like I (used to) fuck. Sloppy, with need for post-game apologies.
Did you also give up the backdoor repeatedly?
/Wait, nevermind, I don’t really need to know that
My long-standing policy with every ladyfriend I’ve had – I’ll stay away from your butthole if you stay away from mine.
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?
We are hard-wired for patterns, and Round of 32 in non-#NuAIDS years has always been Saturday/Sunday.
The Sweet 16 and Elite 8 are off by TWO WHOLE DAYS, so expect enhanced dementia feels this coming weekend.
Hold me, Hippo-I don’t like this brave new world.
Shut up, and enjoy your next Sweet Sixteen run.
/NO YOU’RE ANGRY
Plus Shitty Wolves in the Elite(ish) 8!
Some NBA All-Star Game calibre defensing in this one. Nice pace, though.
I’m now in 2nd place in the DFO bracket. You should all be ashamed.
I have 83 points with my secondary bracket in work pool. 2nd place…has 63.
You’ve presumably watched a college basketball game in the last three years though.
This is very much the least amount of hoopsball I have ever watched in a season. I only watched about half of NC State’s games, even. Maybe 2-3 hrs (pre-NCAAT) of non-Shitty Wolves play, total.
I am ashamed, but it has nothing to do with my bracket.
For the record, 2nd from right and 4th from left are exactly Hippo’s type.
/4th from left also looks like trouble…so I guess she’s extra Hippo’s type
//also, where did Team Cornpone find this shaved ape (Garza)?