Note that he had neither Creighton nor Norfolk State advancing to the round of 32..
However, since Norfolk is one of the 57 states we’re confident that he’ll make a campaign appearance there this summer.
Showing posts with label March Madness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March Madness. Show all posts
Friday, March 16, 2012
Buzzer Beater of the Day
Yesterday, there were 16 games in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Sadly, there were no buzzer beaters to make tournament highlights. The entire 12-hours-long field was as chalky as the Cliffs of Dover.
I watched almost all of it, and so did you. There wasn’t much to get excited about.
Well, there was 2011 Final Four contestant Virginia Commonwealth “knocking off” Wichita State,and a defending national champion (UConn) going down in the first round for the first time since 1994.
Other than that, it was a pretty vanilla first day. You need something more, don’t you?
Watch this shot from the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association quarterfinals, then.
The Lake County Falcons went on to beat the Booker T. Washington Warriors in overtime, 79-77, on thecampus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN.
Who said March Madness was boring?
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Happy Zero Productivity Days
A meeting that had been scheduled for 11:00 am today has been inexplicably postponed “until further notice.”
An office normally staffed with 40 dedicated employees had about 22 walk in the door this morning. Even the receptionist called in sick.
Just last week, not one of them had even heard of St. Bonaventure, and they thought Belmont was place for steaks. Or, horse races. Or, something other than basketball. But by midnight tomorrow, an awful lot of them will either rejoice or despair over the fact that one (or both) has wrecked half of the brackets in the pool with a run to the Sweet 16.
Welcome to March Madness, otherwise known as Zero Productivity Days.
They might as well declare the third Thursday and Friday in March national holidays and be done with it.
Note to athletic directors, compliance officers and sports information directors: If you have some rather embarrassing news to release, today or tomorrow would be a fantastic time to “doc dump.”
Even for die hard college football fans who don’t even get interested in basketball until sometime in mid-January, the next two days are the most fun entries on the sports calendar. Sure, the holiday bowl schedule is great but they’ve become so spread out that the intensity and excitement has waned. The bowl market is saturated. March Madness isn’t,
National (football) Signing Day is another big entry on the calendar, but in all honesty you have to be even more die-hard than the entire Popcorn Bowl television viewing audience to even come close to the excitement of the coming weekend.
For the second year, CBS is teaming up with Turner Broadcasting to make sure that every one of the 64 teams’ fans can watch their guys play in a live, tip-to-buzzer broadcast.
Finding things that the NCAA has done right is like finding federal programs that cost less than originally forecast and actually solve the problem they were intended to address. But like the rare success story in nightmare of bureaucracies, March Madness is a winner.
That naturally leads the BCS anarchists and multi-round playoff zealots to argue that if basketball can do it, so can football. Ignore those people.
For the next several days, just enjoy. And may your favorite team have its One Shining Moment.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Online Resource Educates Universities and Students About College Gambling During NCAA Tournament
As the NCAA college basketball tournament approaches, the National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG) is launching a public awareness initiative to encourage college administrators, campus health professionals and students to learn more about college gambling and gambling-related harms. The campaign also helps to educate students who are of legal age about how to make responsible decisions about gambling.
The centerpiece of the campaign is www.CollegeGambling.org, a science-based resource developed by the NCRG to help colleges and universities address gambling and gambling-related harms on college campuses. The website brings together the latest research and best practices in responsible gaming and the field of addiction awareness and prevention. CollegeGambling.org provides free resources for university administrators, campus health professionals, students and parents to help address this issue in the way best suited to the needs of each campus. To view the NCRG's multimedia release about CollegeGambling.org, which includes interviews and information about how the website can be used on campus, watch the video below.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Cinderella, allow me to introduce you to… Cinderella
I’ll wait while you check your bracket.
[crickets]
I’ve scanned the Top 50 in the Yahoo! Sports Tournament Pick’em and some have VCU, some have Butler, but none have both.
UPDATE: Two of the nearly six million brackets submitted to ESPN’s tourney got it right. Two.
President Barack Obama, I and millions of other amateur bracketologists saw their contest hopes crushed by Virginia Commonwealth’s dismantling of an outmanned, outrun, outshot and outcoached Kansas. Kansas didn’t do itself any favors by missing what? 763,109 free throws. Not to mention the open jumpers and easy layups. They couldn’t buy a basket when they needed one. But to VCU’s credit, they made the Jayhawks pay for every missed opportunity and they never let up.
How big is this? At no point in the history of the NCAA Men’s Tournament have two teams seeded this low played each other in the Final Four. This is history, bay-bee!
Alabama fans, this is what Crimson Tide men’s basketball will look like in a couple of years. Suffocating defense, blazing speed and pinpoint shot accuracy wins basketball games, and Coach Anthony Grant is the principal architect of the Rams’ bracket-busting play. Our future looks very bright indeed, doesn’t it?
Seeing Butler return to the Final Four is no big surprise, given their run right into the championship game against Duke last year. But the Bulldogs were a No. 5 seed then. They were a No. 8 seed this year. The Rams vs. Bulldogs matchup guarantees that there will be another lowly seeded team playing for the title in Houston next week.
None of the No. 1 seeds are left. Kentucky took out Ohio State. VCU took out Kansas. Arizona took out Duke before losing to UConn, and Butler took out Pitt in what may have been the best game in the tournament so far.
It’s been a great March Madness, and there are still three big games left.
Two of those games will feature teams very few of us even had within spitting distance of Houston.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Bestest Bracket Name Ever: “Charlie Sheen Snorted This”
It must be some good stuff, because the bracket is still alive, somewhere north of the 95th percentile of about three million entries at Yahoo! and with all of the Final Four still intact.
Best thing of all though, is that this is MY BRACKET (NOTE: You must log in to Yahoo! in order to view my awesomeness). Or, click the image and zoom in.
I know that since your bracket is totally busted, you’ll be pulling for me.
What’s also cool is that a bracket named “BAMAJAMMA” is the overall leader.
Which just goes to show how Bama fans totally rule.
