College Basketball Thread

“Hey, a good racehorse is judged by the way he comes down the stretch. Look out!”

“Jesus, Wake Forest! If you lose, I'm going to put a curse on the ACC!”

“What's the deal with Florida??? Do they need to have alergy shots prior to the tournament, so that their bodies don't reject the basket???
Will Donovan survive?”

“I hope VCU was a really good team, because Wake survived by the skin of their teeth (79-78).”

“Stanford up 12 late in the first half. It would be 14 right now, but a Stanford player just accidentally tipped one in for Tex-SA. Oops!”

“OK, we're up 14 at the half. Could be better, especially with TSA shooting only 25% from the floor. Hopefully the guys' jitters are gone now....”

“Tex-SA pulled to within 6 earlier in the half, but Stanford now leads by 18 halfway through the 2nd half....”

“Stanford wins, 71-45. 50% shooting vs. 24% by UTSA. Too many turnovers, though - they'll have to fix that problem to go very far....”

“So a Bobby Knight didn't choke like I thought they would. Who cares?

It's gonna be a long month.”

“362 points after 8 games. How is everyone else doing?”

“Oh, shut up....”

“Well, not as terrible as I thought: 340 points so far.”

“352, not to far behind you Hub.”

“348. I hope Billy Donovan's ass gets fired! Just his ass, nothing else.”

“Gaaa! Michigan St. stabbed me in the heart. Damn you Spartans. No wonder Illinois and Wisconsin trounced you this year.”

“same here. I hate Mich. State but I had them picked to win a couple. Oh well, I'm up to 491, but UNC is in a little trouble right now.”

“Ok, my training class ends at noon today.

Anyone want to take odds that I can drink 10 beers before the combined USC/ U of M game score is 60?”

“I have no doubt you can drink the 10 beers, but will you?”

“After the first round of the first round, Dunadan, aka YOUR NEW GOD, has 704 points. Who called the Nevada game? Dunadan. Who called the Manhattan game? Dunadan. Who called the Texas Tech game? Somebody else. I thought the madman would lose, also, but I didn't give Charlotte another win and I don't think Tex Tech will beat St. Joe's either.
The one thing that makes me angry is that the Bama victory is only giving me 16 points versus the 49 I would have gotten from the Salukies.”

“God has spoken. The Jesuits beat the Fundamentalists.”

“Hey, there were several Catholic schools that won yesterday. Guess Jesus must have been Catholic, huh?”

“644 so far. A couple of games last night killed me.

I really thought BYU would make some noise this year. They almost surprised Connecticut last year. If they would have held MacNamera to half of the points he scored, they would have killed them.”

“I seem to remember McNamara shooting the lights out on another occasion. Hmmmm....could it have been against MY JAYHAWKS?”

“I missed 2 games when I added up my points. Sorry Dunadan, I now have 769.

HA! Go fix me a turkey pot pie!”

“OUCH!!! You da man, WK!”

“Seton Hall kept me up past my bedtime, but what a great comeback! Even though it would totally screw my grid, I'd love to see them beat Duke.”

“Any day Puke loses is a good one. Coach Krqpwtjpltschwcjwsky (pronounced Smith) needs more stress in his life.”

“I'm trying to get my spreadsheet set up where I have to put the winners once and it updates everyones totals simultaneously. By the end of the day I should be able to post the point totals for the first 16 games.”

“Hey everyone needs a cindarella. I was actually thinking that Manhattan had a chance to make it the the elite eight but I didn'y have that kind of stones. Oh well..

I think Murray State and Texas Tech
might be the surprises of the tourney.

Besides, ya got to live on the edge once in a while.”

“My sleeper team has yet to play. Schedule says they play today at 11:30.”

“Thanks dayhiker. You should get 1/2 point for your efforts.

I'm at 691 so far.”

“I think you mean double points. I'll need them now that the competition has been upgraded beyond just beating a UT fan, an Auburn fan, and a Jayhawk.”

“Does anybody have less than my 655 points after Day 1??”

“Checking in with 737 after day one. Gotta get back to work so I can take a long lunch and watch the Illini beat down Murray State.”

“710 here”

“704 here.”

“It doesn't get interesting until next weekend. Then we start to see who the pretenders are.”

“So far looks like I'm the winner! This is like golf, right? Lowest score wins?”

“I'm also almost winning on the ESPN Tournament Challenge Game!! Top 5%!!



Umm, actually, that might be the bottom 5% - hmmmm.....”

“I went 14/16 yesterday. I have South Carolina over Memphis :-(”

“Hey Jerry Falwell ...
"God has spoken. The Jesuits beat the Fundamentalists."
Geobeet
08:58:55 AM
03/19/04

I think you need to re-evaluate your definition of "Fundamentalists" Geo, lol.


I'm at 728, but a couple of games are fixing to hurt me I think, like South Carolina and Utah.”

“Early afternoon games just concluded. Winners include

Illinois
NC State
Boston College
Memphis

I am up to 935!”

“Just for the record. I'm pulling for SU not due to they are the defending Nat champs, but due to they are only 1/2 hour away from me :-)
G. Mac drop 43 on BYU.....
they got Maryland tomorrow...
Any SU fans out there?”

“In the scoring should we assume that Violin meant Oklahoma State at #51 instead of Oklahoma? I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt. Dunadan, any comments?”

“I'll also presume that he meant Mississippi State instead of just Mississippi.”

“That's what I get for typing too fast. Yes - add St. to both unless the judges fear my godliness.”

“It was an easy call since Ole Miss and Oklahoma aren't even in the tourney. I'll bet picking Texas Tech at 2 and Manhatten at 3 sucks right about now.”

“All part of my plan. If I picked them all right, you'd get suspicious.”

“Wow, I didn't notice that. Not rubbing it in, but five combined points - ouch.”

“4 more games over and I picked them all.

Recent winners include,

Cincinnati
Okalahoma State
Georgia Tech
Vanderbilt

current points are up to 1129”