It’s here. It’s here. Crap, I haven’t filled out a single bracket. Well, it’s not like carefully studying and thinking about the brackets for hours on end has ever worked out for me.
St. Patrick’s Day and the start of the NCAA Tournament. Stay away from the bars.
UNC-Wilm. vs Duke 12:15 PM CBS
Butler vs Texas Tech 12:40 PM truTV
UConn vs Colorado 1:30 PM TNT
Iona vs Iowa St. 2:00 PM TBS
Yale vs Baylor 2:45 PM CBS
That doesn’t look like a half-bad way to start things off today.
ESPN has a ranking of the coaches in the NCAA Tournament as defined by their playing days. No surprise that Kevin Ollie comes in at #1. Jamie Dixon came in at #8.
Dixon played at TCU from 1983-87, with his best season coming as a senior, when he earned All-Southwest Conference honors, led the league in assists and paced the Horned Frogs to what remains their most recent NCAA tournament win. Dixon was selected in the seventh round 8of the 1987 NBA draft by the Washington Bullets, and played professionally in the CBA and overseas.
Other notables. #10 to #13 were Sean Miller, Bob Huggins, Jim Boeheim and Archie Miller. Kevin Willard was #38. John Calipari came in at #44.
The #1-#16 games of Hampton-UVa (3:10) and Austin Peay-Kansas (4:00) give those of us who are working, a chance to get home without missing much.
At 4:30, one of the potential 5-12 upsets gets played with Purdue vs. Arkansas-Little Rock.
Frankly, take a nap at some point. The best games look to be starting after 9pm on the East Coast.
Three out of the four games that start after 9pm look like they could be really good games.
Wichita St.-Arizona 9:20 TNT
Stony Brook-Kentucky 9:40 CBS
Providence-Southern Cal 9:50 TBS
Gonzaga-Seton Hall 9:57 TruTV
And remember, drink plenty of fluids.
H2P!!!
Go Blue! (Have to encourage the Elis)
By the way, they were excellent. If you go to see them or the Stones and are expecting and
early 1970’s version, then the problem is on you. You have to understand what you’re going to see, and they would still blow most young bands right off the stage.
Daltrey’s voice was exceptionally strong and Townshend’s guitar was fantastic.
Like Townshend said “we’re a couple of old geezers who have sung and played guitar all of our lives, what else are we gonna do?”.
I digress. Next to the opening weekend of college football season, not much better time of the year.
The great thing is, we all have our mental upsets of who could or who might upset someone, and we may not pick the right one, but guaranteed……..several higher seeds will be going home tonight and tmrw night with the
wtf look in their eyes.
Picked Pitt in my Bracket to go sweet 16ing!! Why? BECAUSE I AM A PITT FAN!! Honestly what else am I supposed to do? Pick them to lose in the first round? That would be lame of me. Gotta support! As a Pitt fan I am used to not living up to expectations anyway…But SOMEDAY they will exceed expectations! Why not today/Saturday?
Quadrophenia was life altering for me as an young teen…and Tatoo You as a late teen.
Duke can’t handle UNC Wilmington’s guards. This could be a great game.
Because of Classic Rock Radio, I don’t care if I hear hear a song from “Who’s Next’ or “Baba O’Reilly” (from Quad) ever again … along with just about anything frpm Zeppelin or Skynyrd for that matter
Better news, Duke down by 3 at the half.
H2P!!!
H2P!!!
Artis is such a catalyst .. when he’s good, the team seems to do pretty good. When he struggles against good teams, the team struggles. Against UNC, he had a good first half but struggled in 2nd half.
As for rooting for all the ACC teams, like I said the other day here, the conference gets 260K for 6 straight years for every win. That’s a lot of money for the Pitt Athletic Dept.
If Pitt wins their first game they get all Tournament expenses paid out of that money.
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And heading into the Tournament, Pitt and its Coach has been pretty lucky.
Keep It Short: Adult Short Fiction Read Aloud
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
Time: 7:00 PM
Branch: Central Branch
Description:
Michael Toner performs The Clancy Kid by Colin Barrett, and Reed Kohberger performs How the Crab Apple Grew by Garrison Keillor.
Michael Toner has a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley, where he also completed one year of graduate study in dramatic art. For thirty years he trod the boards in Woods Hole.
Reed Kohberger is a retired Coast Guard officer who spent the majority of his 33 year career in Search and Rescue, and Emergency Response. He and his wife, Raejean, moved to Columbia in 1998 and raised two children there. He has a BS in both Psychology and Sociology and routinely volunteers at the Grassroots Day Resource Center.
@DD, Quadraphenia, soundtrack of my youth! Tatoo You, so underrated
@gc, 2000 light years from home. Damn!!
Baylor playing like Pitt on a bad day!
It’s all over!!!!!!!!!!!
About great Ivy teams. UPenn back in the day. Princeton recently. I guarantee Yale beats Duke! Bet the mortgage!
1967, might have been the acid
Three sheets to the wind, I hear the opening of the song, most of my buddies didn’t even know the song, but when it starts, there is only one song it could be,
I went nuts, started dancing some hippie trance dance in the aisles………
Hadn’t thought about that in quite awhile!! LOL
What a disgrace
Hope he is a little stronger this year.
Bull-dog, Bull-dog. BOW WOW WOW Eli Yale!
Meanwhile Upittbaseball’s golden boy Sean Miller’s team is about to kill my bracket.
Both probably have similar buyouts and annual salaries. I like them both and was rooting hard for AZ last night.
My wife scheduled dinner with good friends tonight at 6:30 – I believe (in my heart) she is doing me a favor – the restaurant is a small Italian spot with NO TV’s and great food. She is such a good wife.
HTP!
Don’t even need reverse psychology for this one.
Uh oh, hope Wisc doesn’t use this post for bulletin board material.
H2P!!!
Kidding a little, I like JD.
OK, not totally kidding.
Sean Miller has proven to be a very good recruiter, but he’s not a proven coach. He may be very good one day, he’s still pretty new to the business, but he’s certainly not there yet. Now way he’s a better coach than JD. Sorry, he’s just not, at least not yet. He DID look good last night though, looks like he lost quite a bit of weight (he was getting pretty pudgy), so that was good to see. ANd for goodness sake, wear a tee shirt underneath a dress shirt………….
TVax – no not nervous for once, just going to try to enjoy this one, and root for my guys. H2P
Except that Sean had to be warned to stay in the coaching box (sound familiar?) and was T’d up (not sure for what). Again, things JD would be roundly criticized for on here.
H2P!!!
I’ll take this as a positive for Pitt’s 3 wins against them. Good for the ACC also, but frankly as most here, just want to see Pitt play on Sunday.
