It could also operate as the evening thread-I’ve no clue what the higher-ups have planned.
To The Games!
Col/Marq:
Both teams have basically the same record but I expect the latter to win handily based on the theory that I’ve held for decades-that West Coast basketball is garbage. I believe this because USC, UCLA, Gonzaga and the rest of them. Hell, that last team should have two championships by now but teams out there have made folding in the crunch an artform. They’re certainly no solid, white bread, sturdy, dependable, fly-over program like the Golden Eagles.
Utah St./Purdue:
Do the Aggies have a 7 footer? As soon as Edey is somewhat nullified by a guy near his size the Boilermakers are done for. So Utah does in fact employ a big fella but he only plays 15 minutes a game. That ugly galoot gets another pass I guess.
Clemson/Baylor:
Joe Girard gets the last laugh. The transfer from Sillycuse is playing his second tourney game while his old team couldn’t field enough quality guys to participate in the group hug that is the pathetic NIT.
James Madison/Duke:
TODAY WE ARE ALL AUTHORS OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS! No, not John Jay, the other guy.
Grand Canyon/Bama:
Anyone know anything about the Fightin’ Antelopes? As them are prey animals with a herd mentality, I don’t like their chances.
Northwestern/UCONN:
Methinks a bunch of pasty white fellas can get back to their homework after they get obliterated. (stereotypes are fun!) Danny Hurley’s Throbbing Temple Vein wants blood.
Texas A&M/Houston:
Another Aggie team? This isn’t the CFL of old, this is proto-professional basketball! The Cougars are undefeated in non-conference play and are 17-4 vs teams above .500. Let the stomping commence.
Yale/San Diego State:
Another “Egghead Loves His Booky-Book” school, as Homer once said. So you’d think they’d be done for but lo!, their opponent the Aztecs lost to the hot shooting of Hernan Cortez and a few of his buddies a little while ago. But also, they’re a shitty West Coast basketball squadoo. See how I came full circle there? In film circles that’s called a rhyming technique. Cool, huh? Nope? Well, I tried. Not hard though.
Enjoy the games.
Whatever you want to label Grand Canyon or Northwestern, they still have combined three more Tournament victories than Nebraska (0-9 all-time).
My point is it’s actually easier to be accidently good once (quite recently for GCU; historically for NW) than consistently mediocre for that much time (Nebraska).
I mean, Northwestern’s an actual college. So they’ve got that going for them.
Which is nice.
Follow-up:
GCU has only been eligible for the Tournament since 2018, and this was their third all-time appearance (2-3). Northwestern has been eligible since the Tournament started in 1938 (2-4). Northwestern was bbbaaaadddd at sprots for long, long tracts of time; they never made the Tournament until 2011..
Nebraska has also been eligible for every Tournament since its inception in 1936. They are 0-9 all-time.
The sky is lowering. It’s windy and the temperature is plummeting. Something wicked this way comes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9TS4O5Ww4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUxiqQHKs0
It’s getting a bit ugly here too.
“Moisture on the floor? That never happens at our house.”
-Ben Shapiro
ew
Love the NCAA banners congratulating themselves on ‘Doing More For Student Athlets’
Yes, because the courts made you.
Finished my beer.
I need Hurley to call a time-out.
It’s the second half, and UConn just doubled up Northwestern’s score.
This is supposed to be the dog’s bed.
So you got the cat pre-warmer upgrade?
Everything in the house is whatever a cat wants it to be.
Truth.
https://twitter.com/BpenfieldJ/status/1772054377596846136
Mostly posting this for DFO-fave Alexandra Daddario running, but it’s also pretty funny.
I’m still in a power outage, and I’ve been sitting here for an hour with a backup battery system that was beeping every two seconds. Nothing it was powering was of any use right now.
The beeping was extremely annoying, but it took me an hour to decide “Maybe I should turn that off.”
A mind is a terrible thing to
wastehave.UConn is looking good and RTD is looking soju’d.
Hippo is pretty high right now. Despite the earier nap, I foresee an early slumber.
(I did wake up early and do billable work from 6-11, but still)
Baylor is my new Duke in that I pick them to make a deep run in hopes that they shit the bed and blow my bracket the fuck up.
Fuck right off, Rapey/Murdery U.
That’s all of them, right?
“12 of UConn’s 13 points have come in the paint.”
Yeah, it’s almost like Northwestern doesn’t have a 7’2″, 280 lb monster of their own.
I don’t want Grand Canyon to win, because they’re a diploma mill for Jesus freaks, but on the other hand, if they beat Alabama and make the SEC look bad I might never stop laughing.
They’re not Jesus Freaks. They’re ever-everchanging the type of degree mill they are.
I withdraw the ‘Jesus freak’ comment, Your Honor.
Grand Canyon University not being a real thing I still maintain and stand by.
I’m kinda surprised they didn’t sell the naming rights for the team mascot and call themselves the GCU Grand Cherokees or something like that.
Who’d have ever thought the decisions being made by young men from Alabama could be described as, “dumb”?
Sometimes they’re punished for decisions they didn’t even make!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys
Depressing click, I’m sure.
Here ya go, Ayo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saST6awr9ko
2-0 UCONN
INSURMOUNTABLE LEAD ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Time for a poutine powered edition of Release the Kraken!!!
how about we REPRESS the Kraken, with silent, contemplative prayer??
Is that good poutine or ballpark poutine?
Is that real poutine or is that Sears poutine?
First time I had poutine, but I assume ballpark quality since it was free.
Worth every penny.
Here’s poutine at the place in Montreal who claims they invented it. It’s pretty good at 2 AM, I guess, if you’re a drunken bastard Frenchy.
it looks like 30 cents of raw materials, arranged on a cut little plate so it can be sold for $30
It’s called “artisanal.”
Fyre Festivalesque.
And flags!
That sounds like a pro-abstinence slogan promoted heavily at Liberty University.
That is an insult to poutine.
[holds envelope to forehead]
“What is a skinny Canadian?”
Unbelievable! It’s raining with thunder right now.
RTD’s vision was correct!
if y’all see ppls out WALKING you’ll know we’s in the End Times. REPENT!!!
Nobody walks in L.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Bbjnn4oz0&pp=ygUdd2Fsa2luZyBpbiBsYSBtaXNzaW5nIHBlcnNvbnM%3D
(that was teh joke)
/Hippo not great with his comic timing
I’ll chew an Oxycontin to that!
ah mean, if’n the END does come, you probably want sommet to take the edge off!
Either way, an excuse to post Missing Persons.
The band, not the kids in Gaetz’s basement.
Fun Fact! The very famoUs 1974 Wolven Sort hoopsball title was in fact against Marquette in the final. More commonly remembered is the game where “Skywalker” Thompson and crew slayed the UCLA daemon (in 2OT, maybe even 3?), but that was the raging semi. Marquette beat Cornbread Maxwell’s UNCC in the other.
/and no, I still will not watch – but I appreciate the historical symmetry
/not looking
I think they beat Walton in regular time but beat Maryland in triple OT for the ACC title. (that last game prompted the NCAA to include non-conference winners going forward)
Walton is still very, very mad about that game.
I want to say one of MD/UCLA was 2OT and the other was 3OT. NOW, I’mma check…
WRONG! MD was single OT, UCLA was 2OT
/the other time we beat the Bruins (1972-73 regular season, maybe?) was in regulation
//the only regular season tilt I can find is a loss, so maybe Hippo be wrong
I CALL THIS JMU/DUKE GAME PULP FICTION BECAUSE WE’VE ALREADY SEEN THE ENDING BUT AREN’T PROCESSING IT JUST YET.
JMU really be all liek Marvin sitting in the back seat.
More like Marvin in the trunk by this point.
Fortunately for Fronk’s Uber hustle, “sad” drunk is still a useful thing. Probably tips less well than “celebratory” drunk, though.
So I was up for dinner at Senorita Weaselo’s last night because it was hilariously awful outside, and her sister’s bf (who lives in the upstairs multi-family quarters) had a song riff stuck in his head and asked if I had any idea what it might be because he was making up words to it.
It was “Cars” by Gary Numan. I got it on like the first or second guess.
“It took weeks to get Eli to stop singing ‘You’ve Got A Friend In Me’ WEEKS.”
-Olivia Manning
THUNDERSTORMS IN L.A.! I REPEAT, THUNDERSTORMS IN L.A.!
Cool, hope they move south.
“Oh, but I say ‘I hope they move south’ and suddenly I’m racist!!”
-G. Abbott, Austin TX
I got sunny skies and 45mph wind gusts.
AND . . . i just lost power for the third time this afternoon. I swear the power grid around here is taped together.
When I was in El Segundo we used to lose power any time there was a breath of wind.
A squirrel knocked out our power for two days.
Windy as fuck, no thunderstorms and full power in Pedro.
I just got a text from LADWP warning me about the second outage three hours ago . . . AND here comes the fourth one.
My studio computer is on a backup battery system but my internet router isn’t. I’m thinking that needs to be fixed.
That’s almost as bad as CLOUDS OVER HAWAII!
https://youtu.be/3-TfZslHKoo?si=bLDtgu2rYThy50ah
OH MY GODS! Is the rescue salad fork okay?
Unlike yours, it’s not in a drifter’s throat.
Seems kind of fucked up that the mascot of a school named after a guy who fought against a monarchy is “the Dukes”.
I just found out Eddie George has been the HC for Tennessee State for the last three years. Good for him.
Shout-out to my niece-skiing-wise (giant slalom?) she finished 3rd in Ontario and 15th in all of Canada. Can’t wait to tell her she’s going nowhere but downhill!
She’s the bird that roasted me hard for drinking Fiji water. She’s the best! Fifteen years old and she takes no prisoners.
cut it put purdue thats mean
I know Brocky is happy to see an Indiana team play goodly
Damn, this game is as bad as the Marquette-Colorado game was good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khTNWsURBpY
I salute those of you who were forced to consume some of these Thank you, 1982.
powdered fucking milk is an affront to whatever Higher Power
There’s a reason why it exists. There is a specific application here and it involves fly-in First Nation communities. Liquid milk costs many more thousands of dollars to transport by plane because of its weight. This also holds true-obviously-for poor regions in Africa. Powdered milk has saved the lives of an untold number of babies that have under-nourished mothers.
/sorry about the seriousness but I had to point it out
On a submarine patrol, when the fresh milk runs out (about 10 days into a 40 day patrol), it’s referred to as “the cow died.” The cooks try to secretly put powdered milk in the mess decks milk dispenser, but the word spreads like wildfire through the elaborate ship-wide grapevine: “The cow’s dead! Plastic cow!” No one would ever drink Plastic Cow, not because there was anything wrong with it, but just because of the universally accepted unwritten law that you wouldn’t. The cooks would keep telling everyone “it’s the same thing!” but they were completely missing the point.
/sorry for another dumb submarine story
//poor brick he suffers from massive undiagnosed ptsd
///and multiple personality disorder
////no he doesn’t
/////yes he does
//////liar
///////you’re the liar
////////prove it
/////////(jumps out window)
TBF, that submarine window had it coming.
Not the one on the left (because there was a giant squid right there) but one of the back ones by the pipe organ.
https://ibb.co/zJ0tp82
They called it white death on Gumby’s first boat. And plastic cow. I keep a can of it in my pantry, it comes in handy for recipes. We don’t drink a lot of milk.
It’s true the world over. Regular milk can’t handle the travel. I grew up on powdered milk back in Mexico.
As a kid, we just had powdered milk. Not sure why, but will guess that it was cheap. Having 2% milk was like cream to me back then
My mom would buy 1 gallon of whole milk and mix it with a gallon of reconstituted powdered milk and it was fine.
Had it for years.
I haven’t seen some Mormons get pounded like this since (…does a search for “Pornhub” in browser history…) 9:47 a.m. on March 19.
Mormon porn, eh? Let’s see Hippo judge that WASPily…
The story behind those is NEVAR any good. Just kind of meh.
Pounding is a sin. They soak instead.
I haven’t seen Mormons pounded like this since I was a 20 year old student in Idaho Falls
BOOSH
Gilkey’s 2240-41 Shempions group draw is just brutal. I knew y’all were wondering.
A hit in the head like a fly ball watching the observation towers at the World’s Fair take an honest to goodness spaceship!
When like Shaq was in college — did any coach ever just keep sending everyone inside to try and wear him down? Like, if you have a big lineup, is it worth spending the last 7 mins before/after the half just sending bodies at him on both sides of the court? Or are these dudes like invincible in college?
When Duke played LSU the yakkers were all gleefully excited about how Laettner was going to get destroyed. He shot 15 footers all game long and Duke won.
Hack A Shaq was created in college
But that was to exploit his FT shooting.
So no one platooned him on physicality?
I don’t recall LSU being particularly good overall, so I just didn’t ever have call to recognize opposition tactics. You just watched the freak show for what it was.
If memory serves, no coach knew what to do with a 300 pound agile center at the time. Double teaming was the solution and that meant playing 3 on 4. In his freshman year he had fellow 7′ footer Stanley Roberts also starting plus a guy by the name of Mauhmoud Abdul-Rauf that went for 27 ppg primarily from outside. They didn’t win the tourney because coach Dale Brown was a garbage coach.
Ah! Waking up bright and early on Sunday morning at the crack of noon!
(That’s the area code 310 way)
Time for coffee! You know, once upon a time I lived a block away from a gourmet coffee roasting shop in Venice, so I always had deluxe coffee I made in a fancy Chemex pot. Those days are over.
I bought this mug at the FSU tent at the Rose Parade float display in Pasadena, the day after Jameis Winston shit the bed against Oregon in the Rose Bowl and lost a sad fumble and the game, 59-20. I asked if the mug was on sale (it wasn’t).
https://ibb.co/MMV7Pqr
That’s the one!
Watching this live with at least some of yinz back at the Mothership was surreally hilarious.
The ref falling over is the chef’s kiss in an all-timer image.
It’s like the ref was blown over
Sympathy Tumble
We have some sitters for blaxito who attend(ed) GCU. Very nice young ladies.
None are from the neighborhoods surrounding GCU.
Is New Balance what basketball players wear to let shoe companies know they’re still unsponsored?
Hmmmm…..
Never again will I not associate alumni of Purdue with Ee-Dee.
The Big Ten had Co-Coaches of the Year?
That’s the fucking conference that deserves to be shot in the head.
My 11 yr-old nephew, he’s remarkably thoughtful and considerate but he chooses to have a mullet and wear Viper knock-off glasses. He confuses me.
Maybe it’s just 1988, and you didn’t realize.
Is he Aussie?
Even worse. Half Scottish.
You’re saying…. you want him to attain real Vipers, at any cost, to gain your respect?
This is the worst interpretation ever since Stephen Miller’s A++++ rating of Starship Troopers.
I thought GCU was one of those mail order diploma mills?
This is on their web site.
So says the Deep State.
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/grand-canyon-university-faces-another-audit-months-after-37-7m-fine/
Jesus I hadn’t even seen these when I posted the same thing above.
It’d be funny if his cologuard box for returned for insufficient postage.
That’s funny you think there are higher ups.
Yao Ming call out! DRINK!
Well, if you insist.
I’m not drinking until soju-o-clock which is 4:45 p.m. PST.
I haven’t seen a Martinez this much of a threat to white people from Indiana since CARAVAN 2023!
THESE GUYS THE UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY I CALL THEM THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTIONISTS BECAUSE THEY’RE A BUNCH OF WHITE GUYS WITH HUSTLE BUT NO COLLEGE DEGREE THAT ARE GONNA GET RAILROADED BY THE MAN AT THE END OF ALL THIS!
Maybe you’re an unrelenting pessimist but consider this-anything can happen in a world where Zach Edey gets laid on the regular.
My senior year as I was eaking out my HS diploma, the Marquette… Warriors (fuck that Golden Eagle shit) won the tournament. Still recall partying on Wisconsin Avenue with a few thousand drunks. Good times.
Without googling-it was Butch Lee and Bo Somebody? If memory serves, the sports media at the time were super happy that Al McGuire (who never met a sportswriter he didn’t like*) finally won.
*funny, that
Bob Ellis
Bo… Fuckin auto correct
Bo Ellis! I think he had a career game in the final or in the semi-final.
So GCU cruised pretty well through a Mountain West confernce schedule. They ain’t play nobody and they ain’t really lose to nobody.
They’re unpredictable, per past performances — but that’s the same thing my broker tells me about my Exxon stock. So if Bama loses…they suck.
Lady Mountaineers are next up for Caitlin & Co.
Have they any experience being mounted?
/asking for college basketball’s all-time leading scorer
Girls sports don’t matter. I’d rather get Taylor Swift news than force fed basketball without dunks.
You know how I know you’ve never watched women’s beach volleyball?
Come on. That’s not a sport.
That’s For Sport.
“It involves accruing points towards a specific end. That makes it a sport. And a sandwich.”
-Anon.
I CALL THIS COLORADO/MARQUETTE GAME THE WESTERN FRONT IN WORLD WAR ONE BECAUSE NEITHER SIDE CAN GAIN ANY GROUND.
We’d also accept “Operation: Dawn” from the Iran-Iraq war.