College Basketball Comments: Conference Tournament Edition
The Madness has begun!!!
How cliche was that!? I wonder how many websites/newspapers/media entities have used that phrase over the past week? Probably a lot; so why not one more, right? At any rate, it’s true. The Madness has begun and I have to say it’s been quite maddening so far. There were some madly-close games yesterday throughout the various conference tournaments with plenty of upsets…hopefully giving us a taste of what’s to come during the madly-maddening-madness known as the Big Dance that starts in LESS THAN A WEEK!!
I’m pretty jacked up, if you can’t tell.
Let’s see what the schedule says for today’s games:
| Time | Matchup |
| 10:00 PM ET | Nevada vs. Utah State |
| 11:00 AM ET | UMBC at Binghamton |
| 11:35 AM ET | Tulsa at (3) Memphis |
| 1:00 PM ET | Mississippi State at (16) LSU |
| 1:30 PM ET | (22) Florida State vs. (1) North Carolina |
| 1:40 PM ET | Ohio State vs. (6) Michigan State |
| 3:15 PM ET | Auburn vs. Tennessee |
| 3:30 PM ET | North Carolina Central at Winston-Salem |
| 4:00 PM ET | Maryland vs. (8) Duke |
| 4:05 PM ET | (24) Purdue at (25) Illinois |
| 6:00 PM ET | Duquesne at Temple |
| 6:00 PM ET | Baylor vs. (15) Missouri |
| 6:00 PM ET | USC vs. (23) Arizona State |
| 7:00 PM ET | Norfolk State vs. Morgan State |
| 7:00 PM ET | San Diego State vs. Utah |
| 8:00 PM ET | Akron vs. Buffalo |
| 9:00 PM ET | (20) Syracuse vs. (5) Louisville |
| 9:00 PM ET | Jackson State vs. Alabama State |
Feel free to hang around the comments and talk trash, sulk, celebrate, applaud, or express whatever other literary action you can think of in type.
Picture sent from Graddawg at the SEC semi-finals:
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I don’t follow college basketball as closely as I should, so could someone tell me how Maryland has for the most part fallen off the face of the Earth? They use to be a powerhouse.
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GITC likes em terps. and so does dukie v.
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What’s Lunardi doing? The CBS guy updates his brackets every game. Butler somehow went from an 8 to a 6 for doing nothing.
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ugh, a honey-do list and watching a poorly played half by msu makes sparty angry.
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osu is on fire from beyond the arc, crap
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Ohio State is making Jen happy
Donte Stallworth is making Jen sad (he hit and killed a pedestrian with his Bentley)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_stallworth_pedestrian_killed
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Former WWE wrestler Test found dead
http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/8643/
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It really is a treat to listen to Mike Lange’s call of the Pens online
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i’m going into my hole…
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but before i do…the nypost are asses. they mention stallworth as a ex-patriot for their headline.
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Fuck fuck, I predicted FSU would beat Carolina without Lawson but I’m still pissed.
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I was checking in to see how Sparty was doing. {pat-pat on the back}
LOVELY article regarding Stallworth. I give up on the Browns. They’re hopeless in all facets of life. I’m sticking to baseball and college football.
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Digger Phelps is an asshat
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DWade – 48pts, 10reb, 8asts, 3stls, 2blks (90 seconds to go)…but 20 missed shots, so he’s a dud
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Over/Under on number of times GITC screams at Dick Vitale on his TV this afternoon? I’m setting it at 11.5…
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I am exhausted. Tough basketball week for me as a Syracuse fan but all in a good way.
Also, my son’s CYO team fell down by 7 points – twice in the game. However they (can I say we since I am coaching?) came back, took a 4 pt lead and held on for a 2 point victory. Game at 7:15 tonight and if we win, then the championship is Wednesday.
I also went to my friend’s house on the way home after my son’s game to watch Syracuse. I just started laughing when the game went to OT again. They have played 35 extra minutes of basketball so it is more like they have played 4 games in 3 days. I can’t see how they can have anything in the tank left for tonight but we’ll see.
Also going to be interesting to see who the #1 seeds are going to be.
Gotta love March Madness!!!
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Cheer up Johnny, you have my personal guarantee that Penn St. will be in the tournament.
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I sure hope so. But i have a distinct fear that they’re going to be one of the last teams out which would really suck.
At least the Pens are winning today
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I still feel pretty good about two of my four pre-season Final Four predictions… I had UNC, Louisville, Texas & Tennessee. 50% – hell, that was good enough for me in my college classes, and it’s good enough for me here!
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Purdue up 37-17 at halftime. Illinois didn’t score in the whole last 9:30. Freaking awesome.
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Ugggg freaking Pens…
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a-10 final is on right now.
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what up boys and girl…just checkin in…i gotta go to a silly ass st patricks day party with a bunch of ppl i dont know…this is why beer is good…everyone will be my friend in a half hr
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test
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test 2
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rip test
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3980747
just because we don’t get enough favre news *sarcasm*
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wtf
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Damn USC with a comeback
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temple’s dancing.
the MAC is next.
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Uggg USC is just going to make it even harder for penn state to make the dance
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yup. looks like trojans will steal a bid
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mizzou seals their bid.
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cuse is leading at the half.
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*tap, tap*
Hello?
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Keep winning Louisville, it only makes the Gophers look better.
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Good, there is another Gopher fan around here.
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ei hawk.
*watching Utah State nail a bid*
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Hey Miz – get your ass to Tampa. that is all.
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Lunardi has the Gophers playing Tennessee in Minneapolis first round, is that even allowed to happen?
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big west champ is on.
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lunardi’s last 3:
maryland
creighton
st. mary’s
among last 4:
penn state and sdsu
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finally.
cs-northridge seals a bid.
i can now go out.
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