Another quiet Friday night where everyone sleeps but me. If there wasn't so much damn college basketball on this weekend, I'd probably be asleep too. But there is and I'm not.
Besides, who can sleep with all the Gopher stuff going on? It took all of about 10 seconds for the announcers to invoke the memory of Christian Laettner (may he rot wherever he is) in describing the ending to the Gopher/Indiana game. The gutless Kelvin-less Sampsons have been showing their true colors since the Chief Cheater was forced to resign amid NCAA allegations but they really came up with one for the books tonight. After practically being handed the game by the refs after not 1 but 2 questionable calls in the span of the last five seconds of the game, Indiana finally hit a free throw (out of three tries) to take a one point lead with 1.5 seconds left. I could practically predict the press conference during the timeout---"WE fought hard, it's a shame to lose on a couple of calls like that, blah, blah, blah"). Cue the bomb inbounds Hail Mary into a turnaround, left-handed jumper inside the free throw line and the Goofs are into the semis against Illinois???
Yup, even more gutless were the Boilermakers who, despite being the sexy pick to go far as a Big Ten rep in the NCAA tournament, laid a big fat egg against the Fighting Illini (send nickname protests to your local PETA board).
Here's the kicker--the guy who hit the shot is the same guy who played for Hopkins in 2005 and hit a game tying shot from his butt to send the game to Double OT in the NCAA. Who is writing this stuff?
Xavier did a huge solid for a member of their own conference by tanking in the A10 quarters to the supposed "average" Hawks of St. Joe's (not to be confused with Average Joe's who are good at dodgeball). Average defined in this case as their RPI of 51. Thus yet another mid-major "tweener' was added to the list of those who could steal a bid from the so-called "major" conferences (or as Seth Davis would prefer they be called "the only teams who belong in the tournament"--or Division I for that matter). Sometimes I wonder if these mid-major conference powerhouses do this on purpose to get an extra bid. Actually, in this day and age of the BCS and other major conference biases, I wouldn't blame them if they all got together and brainstormed schemes to get more exposure. I'm still convinced I saw a shooter behind the goal post during the Boise State/Oklahoma BCS game in 2007, ready to pick off the first Sooner who sniffed out the Statue of Liberty at the end of the game.
Right now, I'm wrapping up the night with a little late night "Wash St/Stanford." Good game so far but I think I just found out where Stanford's tree mascot has been hiding out, inbetween fights and alcohol consumption. It's wearing #42 and stiffing everything in its way. I swear to God, there are leaves literally growing on its head while it stands in the lane and blocks shots without jumping (I can't tell if that's because the tree has no vertical or if its just so stiff that it can't move period). You know what this tree eats? Anything it wants, based on the brutal assault I have seen taking place in the first half. I think I saw this guy in the movie Knocked Up but he actually formed sentences and had a sense of humor (when asked later, the TreeMan grunted something about it being the hardest part he played since being in the book "The Giving Tree"). It's got to be tough for TreeMan in the Fall when practice starts up and he's still changing colors. Trust me, he's using his branches to their fullest extent.
OK--enough. All this late night chat and I still haven't mentioned the tornado that actually postponed the Kentucky/Georgia SEC tournament game because it tore a hole in the roof of the Georgia Dome during OT of the game before. I personally feel like Kentucky needs this game and maybe one more to stave off another mid-major theft. Someone up there really doesn't want Kentucky in the tournament and if that "someone" cares badly enough to send a twister during the SEC tourney, there's no telling what could happen in the first round if the Wildcats actually make the NCAA's.
That's why I'll be home watching in HD...
Peace,
Reg
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