Runnin' Elite Eight thread

Don't look at me, I picked UCLA to the Final Four in my money brackets.

 

my hokey comment of the year; that was classy of Ben Howland to give love to Dick Enberg.

 

So is this the right time to gloat that I'm 2-for-2 with my final four picks and still have the other two going tomorrow? I'm sold on Florida getting there, but my other wildcard pick of Georgetown over Carolina, I'm a bit iffy on right now....

 

Dick was having none of it, though. He seemed to have a bug in his ear to "get back to Greg in New York" in a hurry.

 

Dick

 

KU beat Florida and won both the Big 12 regular season and conference titles, so if the committee looked at the entire season, the Jayhawks deserved that No. 1 seed.

UCLA simply didn't deserve to play in San Jose. Second straight year the Bruins get a No. 2 seed and win a regional final.

And yes, this is sour grapes moments after KU lost, but I didn't like that wrinkle when they announced the brackets to start with.

 

Both my championship game picks are in the Final Four. Yee Ha

 

And thus, the Bluebirds of...

Ahh, never mind. I know how it is to have my boys bounced from the NCAA.

Fuck you, Ohio State. Go Heels! (default fanboy choice for me at this point, owing to some ties to Wilmington, NC)

 

So how good was the UCLA-Kansas game? Should I be bitter that I was watching Juco baseball instead?

 

It was good, but I wouldn't say great. I enjoy watching UCLA when it's playing well, and actually making a few shots.

 

The Collison 3-pointer was amazing, especially for thoise of us who have UCLA in the final (against G'town).

 

Kansas was the fourth of the No. 1 seeds. Since the other three were from back East, SOMEONE had to go to San Jose. Thus, it was the worst of the No. 1 seeds. This essentially was a 4-vs.-5 game in a quarterfinal. And it was a trip UCLA has done many times before, since the Pac-10 plays mostly Thursday-Saturday.

I'll echo what someone else said: The Howland comment to Enberg was total class. I love listening to Enberg do a game. Yeah, yeah, he's lost a step. Who wouldn't? Still better than 99 percent of who's out there.