Let’s Watch Some Ball! Your Saturday Night Open Thread

That ball also includes some soccer ball and hockey ball. My protein guy-everyone has a protein guy, right?-is super pumped about his England tackling Brazil. (game is probably over by now) Don’t forget the struggling Senators are protecting their lottery position as well!

To The Games!

MSU/UNC: Izzo reminds me of Boeheim quite a bit-several trips to the Final Four with only one championship to show for it, a 71% winning rate that could have been higher if they’d not coached the last five years and related, criticisms of compiling wins as their career winds/wound down. Also, Tar Heels suck.

WSU/ISU: Look at Iowa with it’s basketball surgence (not resurgence) in America’s heartland. Suck it Indiana. WSU got here by beating up the likes of Utah Tech, Portland State and the dregs of the PAC 12. They have the feel of a one-shot team that is going to quickly disappear and go right back to the .500 ball they’ve played three of the last four years.

OAK/NCSU: Hippo not watching his alma mater has really paid off for the Wolves. This is a rare 14/11 matchup whereby one tourney darling has to head home. That’s unfortunate. I’d much prefer some random seed wreaking havoc with a bracket, slaying higher(?) seeds left and right and pissing off fans of traditional powers that believe they belong in the Sweet Sixteen and beyond.

Tex/Tenn: A bug has bitten some SEC teams but them Volunteers ruined the lives of those St. Peters boys and hardly broke a sweat. Hey Longhorns, stick to football.

DUQ/ILL: I’ve not seen either of these teams despite the fact I am constantly exposed to Big Ten basketball and the ugly countenance of Zach Eady. (who will get eaten alive in the NBA) Everyone should cheer for Doo-Kez-Ne despite the fact that the short form of their name sounds exactly like a much-hated team.

ORE/CRE: A few of the Ducks players look as though they took the weight-training portion of their fitness regimen quite seriously-there’ll be no pushing them off the block. Creighton is in Nebraska? I actually drove through rush hour traffic in Omaha when I was 14. Coincidence? Surely. Just so you know, Edward Creighton was a banker and railroad investor type that made out like a robber baron and was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners back in 1958.

Do what you do.