College Basketball Thread

“That's just like you Dunadan. Run tell mommy.
Go KU! Beat Arizona!”

“Maybe I should say this.
Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KKKK UUUUUUU.”

“We just have to get Kirk fired up, eh? and hope Nick plays like a superstar again!

Arizona is going down...”

“C'mon Syracuse!!!! Big Eight (12??) teams going down... well, any of them other than Kansas. MOoooooohahaha

Toooooo bad KY!”

“KY turns to jelly!
Looks like KU has a date with Marquette in NEW ORLEANS BABY!!!!
Bad night for any team with a Wildcat mascot, eh?”

“I'll keep cheering for KU as long as I don't have to read any Jayhawk haiku.

Deal?”

“WOOOO HOOOOOOO
WHOOOOOOOOOOO told me no Orangemen in the Final Four???

MOOOOOOOOOOOOhahahahahha”

“Dunny dreams of four...
Then ONE national winner
Rock Chalk Jay Hawk ball!

(you banned Dunadan's and not MY haiku, Violin. LOL!)”

“Looks as if we will again have a supreme sports god this year. Dayhiker has proven himself the king of chaos.

Better than 60% of the college bowls were upsets. The basketball tourney has been almost as crazy.

Florida beats Kansas during the regular season. Florida has an easy route to the elite eight and wins one game in the tournament. Kansas has one of the toughest routes in the tournament and ends up beating huge favorite, Arizona. Ya know, I ALMOST picked Marquette, Kansas, and Texas as my other final four teams. Yeah right! Any of you folks want to see my dog drive my car? I swear.... honest.

Congratulations, Dunadan. We may not know squat about picking, but at least your team is still playing strong.”

“What's your connection to Syracuse lizs? Didja go to school there or do you just like Orange? Rutgers beat them you know. In an alternate universe, we'd be in the final four.”

“As of end of Sweet Sixteen

dayhiker 2654
cocoa 2636
chili 2632
arclite 2622
arky 2565
Dunadan 2554”

“Going into the Final Four

dayhiker 2875
cocoa 2860
chili 2848
arclite 2844
arky 2796
Dunadan 2761

So far it looks like the boys from Bama know a little about the round ball. We may not can play it, but we can prognosticate.”

“At least I am not in last place.”

“FYI, here's where everyone has the remaining teams ranked.

dayhiker
62 Kansas
59 Texas
54 Syracuse
46 Marquette

cocoa
62 Kansas
61 Texas
56 Syracuse
45 Marquette

chili
60 Kansas
56 Syracuse
52 Texas
48 Marquette

arclite
61 Syracuse
59 Texas
55 Kansas
47 Marquette

arky
63 Texas
60 Kansas
56 Syracuse
52 Marquette

Dunadan
64 Kansas
59 Texas
45 Syracuse
39 Marquette”

“I'll bet your mother wouldn't like it if she knew you were prognosticating again, Dayhiker.

Just keep cashing in my 64 points and I'll be plenty happy.

Lizzy, you are one orange hiker. I hope you don't get your entertainment center, however mean that sounds. I know you'll understand. (BTW thanks for covering the haiku duty for me)

Rock Chalk
Jayhawk
K!
U!”

“My only hope to gain any ground is for Syracuse and Marquette to win.”

“I think it's interesting to note just how similar all 6 of us have the final four ranked. There aren't alot of differences in any of our rankings.”

“I have arrived to claim my thrown. I saw the fear of my imminent deitiship back in March when only one TT'er had the rocks to come and hike in my domain. Because of that bravery, arky will not come in last place. That duty will fall to Dunadan. As Christ said, the last shall be first and the first shall be last. On Monday night, Dunadan will be awarded a NC ring. Since I came in first and the first shall be last, I get stuck with all of you for the next year!”

“Evidently, deities don't have to be able to spell. That should be throne!”

“ALL HAIL THE CRIMSON GOD!

In basketball heaven, they chant...

Rock
Chalk
Jayhawk
Kaaaayyyy
Uuuuuuuuuu!”

“THE CRIMSON FRAUD!”

“He's the maroon and white fraud now!”

“Dayhiker is the king of chaos....

The basketball god....

THE SUPREME SPORTS DEITY!!!


I bow before your superior knowledge of all things sports.


Hey, did you guys hear? Florida will probably win the SEC all-sports trophy for an unprecedented twelfth time.

Some gods got control, and some gods ain't got diddly.”

“Just give me my 64 points just two more times, oh mighty one. That is all that your humble Dunadan asks.”

“Of course, a king can't take the throne before the coronation and that won't happen until after the tournament. Am I right or am I right?
Worship begins on Tuesday.....”

“A guy drove around Lawrence today with "We are Marquette" signs all over his truck. idiot! i hope he didn't leave it un-attended...”

“Read an article today that said if KU's AD is staying then Williams will be heading to NC. What's the word Uncle Dunny?”

“OK, so I'm dumb. You guys are all adoring Collison. AND HE'S FROM IOWA FALLS AND NO ONE TELLS ME???

hmmmmmmmmm, Ioway rules!!!! lol”

“Senor Arky. Ahh the rumors, they do fly fast and far, don't they? Roy will stay at Kansas. He has already turned down North Carolina, and will not do it again. He won't throw his hat into the ring this time. Al Bohl, KU's AD is like unto a pimple on the backside of Roy. If he doesn't like Al, he doesn't have to deal with him much at all. Roy walks on Potter's Lake to get across campus. Al looks up at him from the slimy bottom as Roy passes by.
Lizzy, Lizzy, Lizzy!!!!! Don't you know that Kirk Hinrich is from Iowa, also? Treat yourself this weekend and tune into their game against Marquette. You will get to see your two fellow Iowans lead us to victory. (I hope)

As always......
Rock
Chalk
Jayhawk
Kaaayyyyyyy
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuu.”

“Gosh, if you change the name from Roy to Fran and change the handle from Dunadan to dayhiker this is the same conversation that took place at Bama. I hope yours turns out better than mine did.

What's up with the players at UNC? The coach cussed at me. Big friggin deal. Did any of you have coaches cuss at you in hs? Thought so.”

“I didn't know coaches knew how to speak without cussing. Are we now in a more sensitive time when a young inner-city kid with the tats and cornrows blushes when you say "darn"?”

“BTW, Dayhiker, you alone, among the many I have listened to the past week about Roy Williams' future, have scared me the most. That is an example that I would rather not think about.”

“I know, I know, I am talking to myself on this thread. However, I just wanted to tell everyone that I'm going into "lock down" mode in front of my television. I will only emerge if the mighty Jayhawks are victorious. Otherwise, this might be my last post.
Rock, Chalk Jayhawk!”

“I didn't intend to scare you. When I typed that I was recalling an exchange with arky where he pointed out that the only folks saying he was staying were the Bama folks.”

“Cha-ching! Please add another 64 points to my total.
And, por favor, cheer for the beloved Jayhawks on Monday night. They will need the support worse than Lizzy needs a home entertainment center.”

“Dunny, Dunny!! LOL!!

"And Dunny and Lizzy were good friends.... TILL the spectacle known as Final Four College Basketball tore them apart. Dunny no longer offered Lizzy the requisite free meal and booze if and when she passed through Kansas. Lizzy told Dunny, 'You keep your @ss out of Iowa and especially Iowa City.' Sad, sad days indeed."”

“I can see Dunadan's swollen head all the way down here on Arkansas. I guess since kansas is part of our name I will cheer the Jayhawks on to victory.”

“Well, I will cheer the Jayhawks....after all, seeing the Rock Chalk deal being performed in the Ozarks was impressive.”

“However, I might add....if the Orangemen do win,,,,I am having a shirt printed up...


"Memphis Tigers 70
National Champs 63"
(November 14, 2002)”

“As I see it, it's a choice between the crass materialism of the greedy Lizzy, and the pure and true love of the game displaye by the exemplary Dunadan. He gains nothing but the humble task of being an ambassador for the Jayhawks at all future TT hikes. Lizzy, on the other hand, will just sit on her ashtabula and watch soap operas with surround sound. (Which is OK since she isn't really a backpacker.)
Good luck to both teams. I think this one could be close.”

“...the pure and true love of the game....

Nice one. Did you giggle when you typed that one up?”

“The giggle meter is off the chart here, my friend.”

“Check your email Dunny. I'm trying to get a file to you and it bounced.”

“I'm going into check mode right now......”

“Are you breaking out the Free State brew for your celebration tonight? After a few of those you might want to join the boys in the streets tumping over cars.”

“So lizs gets a home entertainment system?

I'd like to repeat the fact that Rutgers beat Syracuse so we are the true NCAA champs.

I think I'll go apply for the post of Iraqi Information Minister now.”

“Oh my. The tears from Kansas will flood the Arkansas River. The inability of anyone to make a free throw became their doom.”

“I feel for ya, Dunny, I mean Dunadan. We now know that Dunny actually plays for Syracuse. Who'd have thought the death of KU would be at the hands of missing free throws and a short white boy in orange.

That would have been one spectacular comeback. When Langdon was running down the court on that fast break I was practically yelling "Get out of the way, Get out of the way" at the TV. What a stupid way to get your 5th foul. He brought so much energy to the game. In the little amount of time he was on the court he had almost 1/3 of KU's points. I thought the other key was the 5 point swing just before halftime where Hinrich was called for a charge and the bucket was tacket away. Short white boy comes down and nails a three. It was tough for me to watch and I kept thinking about Dunada. Tough breaks.”

“Yup, lizs gets a home entertainment system. hehehehe

$300-ish RCA surround sound deal. With a DVD/CD/VCR/MP3 player and like five speakers. Hell, I'll prolly need a new stinkin' TV to hook it up!!!

Sorry, Dunny. I almost feel guilty here. I didn't even watch any games of the NCAA tourney. (I left my heart, broken, with Iowa football last fall. Couldn't take THAT again!!)

I remained detached and never heard about games till after the fact. Lordy, this appears to be the way to do it. LOL! Also, I had gotten a CD/DVD player just before the tourney began. So that's the way it would go, I win something I already kind of have, although not to quite the extent of the prize.

Last night I was at a three-hour City Council meeting, followed by a good half hour with a Superintendent, following a School Board meeting where $220,000 in personnel cuts were made.

I had a fun night... NOT! (well, the City Council almost came to fisticuffs!!) Till I heard the final score.

LOLOLOLOL!! OK, so it does make me happy. I figure maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket now.

But I'd trade it in a second to have had Iowa's football bowl game win last fall. Waaaaaaah!!

Dunny, friends???”

“Ok, mr football/basketball god.....

post up the final results.”