2022 Post-Plague Madness – Octavos de Final Thread Numero Dos

Night two, and you get to scan the following bullshit before turning your eyes towards the sexy thread.

15E St. Peter’s (+12.5) v. 3E Purdue (7:09, CBS)

A warning for Purdue Pete – you probably think you dodged a major bullet with this matchup. That’s what Murray State thought, too. And they are no longer present (nor did they ONCE take a lead over the Cocks). Remember Shaheen Holloway? Sure you do, he was a guard on some vaguely interesting Seton Hall squadrons, and you have to figure he will get a Big East gig pretty damned soon.

4MW Providence (+7.5) v. 1MW Kansas (7:29, TBS)

Cooley High Harmony is still kicking it, but Rock Chalk is…not a great matchup. But who knows, a Bill Self team is always capable of shitting their pants.

8E U*NC (+2.5) v. 4E UCLA (9:39, CBS)

Anyone not rooting, with all their dark hearts, for Westwood Klavern? You go to hell. You go to hell and you DIE.

11MW Iowa State (+2.5) v. 10MW Miami-FL (9:59, TBS)

It shocks me a bit that Da U is Da FavoUrite here. ML bet ahoy! I am betting on the better conference here, really. Miami really isn’t very/any good. Neither of them can stay within 20 of Kansas.

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Redshirt

March 25, 2022 10:49 pm

Why don’t you foul there? All you did was trade a two score game with some time left for a two score game with no time left.

Redshirt

March 25, 2022 10:42 pm

In other news, MLB continues to be stupid. We may see the first on-field cavity search this season.

MLB issues memo to teams on use of foreign substances, plans to further crack down – CBSSports.com

BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

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March 25, 2022 10:39 pm

Way late but love that Balls’ music 30 post has 30 comments

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King Hippo

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March 25, 2022 10:37 pm

y’all is bastard men UCLA

WCS

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Reply to King Hippo

March 25, 2022 10:46 pm

Y hiiPP0 haet?

SonOfSpam

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March 25, 2022 10:28 pm

Aw fuck. Not Taylor Hawkins. Fuck.

Redshirt

March 25, 2022 10:21 pm

NFL Network just showed a game celebrating Joe Burrow as the #6 best QB in the league (KC-CIN Wk. 17). It had Burrow putting up amazing numbers, rewriting the record book, and it ends with him limping to the slideline holding his knee.

That’s the best microcosm I can find for the 2021 Cincinnati Bengals season.

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King Hippo

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March 25, 2022 9:37 pm

From the Holy Shit desk at ESPN:

Saint Peter’s is the only team to win multiple games as a double-digit underdog in an NCAA tournament since the tournament expanded in 1985 (+18.5 vs Kentucky, +13 vs Purdue) per ESPN Stats and Information. The Peacocks also ended a state drought, becoming the first team from New Jersey to reach the Elite Eight since Seton Hall in 1991.

WCS

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Reply to King Hippo

March 25, 2022 9:41 pm

HAIL GAMBLOR

King Hippo

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Reply to WCS

March 25, 2022 9:45 pm

HIS WILL BE DONE

rockingdog

Reply to King Hippo

March 25, 2022 9:53 pm

That’s Rocking!

King Hippo

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Reply to rockingdog

March 25, 2022 10:20 pm

Please use your vast internet powers to make UCLA be much MOAR rocking!!

scotchnaut

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March 25, 2022 9:29 pm

[hoping that this is not just another Manek Friday, whoa, whoa]

King Hippo

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March 25, 2022 9:28 pm

I eagerly await ESPN tracking down the one, mildly Darnold-ish 1st grader who correctly has St. Peter’s and Miami in his Elite Eight.

scotchnaut

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March 25, 2022 9:21 pm

Hoping that UCLA wins so that Bill Walton drives the “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat of Many Colors Good Morning Starshine” bus to the Final Four site.

King Hippo

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Reply to scotchnaut

March 25, 2022 9:26 pm

I will really hate Westwood Klavern forever if they cock this up. I will take tonight’s outcome as fitting reparations or a personal insult (after the Holiday Bowl shenanigans).

We Wolven Sort Like Nothing Better Than Holding a Grudge

(edited FOAR telling not spelling obvs)

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SonOfSpam

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Reply to King Hippo

March 25, 2022 9:29 pm

Kids got a free vaca in San Diego and you didn’t lose money on ’em. Sounds like a win and you owe the Bruins an apology cake.

King Hippo

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Reply to SonOfSpam

March 25, 2022 9:30 pm

All Beefs Squashed With a Win TONITE

King Hippo

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March 25, 2022 9:20 pm

Seton Hall is gonna be mighty annoyed if they have to wait a whole ‘nother week before they can hire Shaheen Holloway.

SonOfSpam

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Reply to King Hippo

March 25, 2022 9:22 pm

Ink should be super dry on the contract offer by now.

rockingdog

March 25, 2022 9:12 pm

LOL

St. Peter’s has more victories over #1, #2, or #3 seeds in the 8 days than Gonzaga has in the past twenty years.

Maybe we’ve been following the wrong small Jesuit school this whole time?

Hahaha!! That’s Rockingggg!!!

Redshirt

March 25, 2022 9:05 pm

Let’s see: I’m rooting for UCLA because of Mick Cronin (great coach and stand up guy (hopefully this quote holds up)) and I’m rooting against Miami (FL) because of irrational hatred from them blaming the 2003 FB Championship loss to Ohio State on one bad penalty call in OT and not them looking past the Buckeyes and putting the dynasty before the horse.

To show how irrational my hatred is, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, if Michigan and Miami were playing, I would make at least a favorable reference to the Wolverines on DFO.

SonOfSpam

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March 25, 2022 8:49 pm

Could’ve had half the Elite Eight made up of Catholic schools, but Gonzaga and Providence blew it.

Redshirt

Reply to SonOfSpam

March 25, 2022 9:06 pm

That is, without a doubt, the worst thing Catholicism has done to young boys.

SonOfSpam

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Reply to Redshirt

March 25, 2022 9:10 pm

By. Far.

King Hippo

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Reply to Redshirt

March 25, 2022 9:17 pm

#PetersUp

WCS

Admin

March 25, 2022 8:30 pm

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SonOfSpam

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March 25, 2022 8:28 pm

St. Dong’s Urinedongs are delightful!

scotchnaut

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March 25, 2022 8:26 pm

Way to go, Paint Seeders!

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King Hippo

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Reply to scotchnaut

March 25, 2022 9:33 pm

GREAT, now I have the mental image of a Home Depot employee cranking one out into a can of paint. MY MIND IS VERY BORKEN OK

SonOfSpam

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March 25, 2022 8:26 pm

Anyone not rooting, with all their dark hearts, for Westwood Klavern? You go to hell. You go to hell and you DIE.

Evening everyone. What Hippo said.

Redshirt

Reply to SonOfSpam

March 25, 2022 9:07 pm

Who is Westwood Klavern? I need to know if I need to go to hell and die.

SonOfSpam

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Reply to Redshirt

March 25, 2022 9:11 pm

UCLA is in a smallish city called Westwood. It is an expensive little burg near Beverly Hills. And Klavern speaks for itself if you’re Hippo.

Redshirt

Reply to SonOfSpam

March 25, 2022 9:13 pm

Oh good, I get to live without fear of incurring Regalian Hippopotamusian wrath.

herodotus450

March 25, 2022 7:48 pm

Lotta Big Ten slander around here recently, but name me one conference that’s done better? The American Sun Belt? Ha.

herodotus450

Reply to herodotus450

March 25, 2022 8:18 pm

ok maybe I spoke to soon.

WCS

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March 25, 2022 8:33 pm

scotchnaut

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March 25, 2022 7:38 pm

Forgotten Big East Guys: Gene Smith from Georgetown was one of the best lockdown defenders at the guard position I’ve ever seen. He was a one-man press whenever he got on the court. As a Cuse fan, it was so frustrating that he could take out any guard whenever he wanted.

/t’was so satisfying when freshman guard Pearl Washington turned him inside out.

Redshirt

March 25, 2022 7:36 pm

Former Bengal OT Fred Johnson is now a Buccaneer. May BLEERGH have mercy on Tom Brady’s knees.

scotchnaut

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March 25, 2022 7:19 pm

Forgotten Big East Guys: Nadav Henefeld was an Isreali kid on a UConn team that finally broke through in Calhoun’s 4th year. He was 6’7″ and set the NCAA’s record for steals in his freshman year. He went back to Israel immediately and was very successful. I think he could have played in the NBA. Dictionary definition of a one-year wonder.

King Hippo

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March 25, 2022 7:18 pm

Also, Mr. Ayo certainly nailed it.

King Hippo

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March 25, 2022 7:17 pm

/pats self on back for not turning the teevee on for this tripe

//grievously injures old Hippo self

scotchnaut

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March 25, 2022 6:55 pm

Purdue running their O through a big dude that has trouble passing back out to the perimeter is a recipe for disaster.

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scotchnaut

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Reply to scotchnaut

March 25, 2022 9:40 pm

Sometimes you can see final results coming from a mile away.

Redshirt

March 25, 2022 6:54 pm

Russia announced the “first phase” of the war is over. Sadly, I don’t think the next phase involves withdrawing back to Russia for quiet rest and contemplation over a nice cup of borscht.

Seriously though, when a delusional Putin comes on TV to declare victory and that he’s triumphantly sending his troops back home, everyone play along. We only got one shot at this.