Running Sweet 16 thread

Oden has 4

 

Fouls

 

Nice job of boxing out, UT.

 

Lifted from a Web site that can explain it better than me ...

http://www.ku.edu/about/traditions/chant.shtml

KU's world famous Rock Chalk Chant evolved from a cheer that a chemistry professor, E.H.S. Bailey, created for the KU science club in 1886. Bailey's version was "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU" repeated three times. The rahs were later replaced by "Rock Chalk," a transposition of chalk rock, the name for the limestone outcropping found on Mount Oread, site of the Lawrence campus.

The cheer became known worldwide. Teddy Roosevelt pronounced it the greatest college chant he'd ever heard. Legend has it that troops used the chant when fighting in the Philippines in 1899, in the Boxer Rebellion in China, and in World War II. At the Olympic games in 1920, the King of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell. The assembled athletes agreed on KU's Rock Chalk and rendered it for His Majesty.

 

Tied

 

As a Memphis fan, I'm pulling for Tennessee. Not to see a rivalry game, but because I'd rather the Tigers face the hot-and-cold Vols than the Buckeyes.

Thanks for the Rock Chalk explanation and for being a good sport about my brutalization of both KU traditions and Shakespeare, Oz....

 

I can't believe OSU is winning this. And without Oden. That dude is the most overrated player in America.

 

Damn. Tennessee plays in spurts. You never know.

 

UT by 3

 

Ryan Childress coming out of nowhere for the Vols.

He signed with Pearl at UW-M before Pearl left to Knoxville....he's no Major D-1 Player, but wow....

He won their UVA game...

 

Verne has messed up even more names than usual tonight.

 

Yeah, aside from Lofton, I like Wayne Chism(cool name) too.