Running 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament thread

How do you figure the 2000 title was a fluke and/or gift-wrapped?

 

I feel pretty much about this the way I felt about Arizona winning the NFC title a couple years ago. On the one hand, I'm happy.

But I'm going to get some affairs in order Monday morning because frankly, this shit can't be real.

 

1. Kenyon Martin's broken leg, which led to:

2. Sparty being given virtual home games throughout the tournament -- no games more than a 3-hour drive from Lansing.

Martin doesn't break his leg, Sparty is a No. 2 seed in Pocatello or someplace. Instead they get home cooking all the way to the championship.

 

"Let's win it all for the little schools that never had a chance to get here." Stevens is committing coaching motivation malpractice if he doesn't play that clip from Hoosiers at least once before that title game.

C'mon, guys, you gotta put aside that cynicism a bit for this. A frickin HORIZON LEAGUE team is in the national championship game. Honestly, did anyone imagine they'd ever see that? Ugly game or not, this is some historic shit going on right here.

 

I'm sorry, Stoney. I covered some Horizon League teams in the tourney, like Bruce Pearl's UW-Milwaukee team, and they could play. Butler's been a top 25 team for several years now. It's unusual, but it's no more of a major astonishment than it would be if an A-10 team made the final.

 

Unless you're like me and you got sick of the whole "Hooisers" storyline oh, three house after they punched their ticket for Indy?

 

If I'm Stevens, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, I get everybody in the locker room, lock the doors, kill the lights, roll the DVD, and 114 minutes later, walk out on the court for the opening tip.

 

So did I. But last I checked, neither you nor I were playing Monday night. So what we think of it really doesn't matter, does it?

 

A-10 is light years above the Horizon.

Richmond? Xavier? Temple?

 

Get an edited copy without the Hackman love interest B story ...

 

Forget Hoosiers, I would show a highlight reel of them beating Syracuse, KState, MSU...

 

Getting my arrogant Dukies straight:

Scheyer is the one who made that shitty face late in the Baylor game, sparking a bit of activity.

Singler is the one who looks like a meth head.

Is that correct?