Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

No, they beat Florida, which was the victory that held up their profile for a long time until the overwhelming number of wins put a more substantial foundation under their profile.

Rumor is they’ve been waiting until after the tournament to announce a project to renovate their gym (I refuse to call a 2,900 seat barn with blank walls next to the baselines an “arena.”) But you’ve almost got to shoot your shot with donors at this point. You don’t need a huge place (Gonzaga does well with the Kennel at 6,000), but you need a nice one to meet the moment and a new conference with Memphis and Wichita State. That’s plenty reasonable for a campus of 40k students in a county of 1.5 million people. Find a way to schedule a couple of name brand teams down the road in Sunrise until it is up and going.

 

Fucking A U.

 

Wait, Florida Fucking Atlantic is in the Final Four? Also, shoutout to the Hokies ladies who all sorts of fucked against Tennessee.

 

That was FIU, in Miami, on the northern edge of the campus. Collapsed over US-41, I believe.

 

To threadjack for a minute one of the best investments I ever made in life was signing my two kids up for the Stanley Kaplan SAT Review. Basically the course consisted of the kids taking the test, reviewing the test then taking it again for a total seven sessions. In life if you are doing something multiple times, first in the practice tests and then on test day, you will perform better than if you just walk into the test and take it the first time.

The course helped one son marginally, maybe 50 points. though you never know if that 50 points gets the kid into UCLA (he was admitted out of state) or not. But the second son improved each time he took the test and and went up 200 points, which I think got him admitted in-state to the University of Virginia.

I wound up paying a quarter million dollars for college. The course cost me $700 each about 12 years ago. If you are going to wind up paying a horrific amount of money for college anyway pay for the course to give your kids more potential options.

 

I think they got passive because they expected to be fouled.

 

The Yukon, the yeti and the yoga pants is a great song title. John Prine could write the shit out of that.

 

Speaking of UConn …

 

UConn has Gonzaga on the ropes. Timme is not playing well, especially on defense, and no one can hit a 3-pointer for the Zags. Big trouble.

 

Biggest mistake Gonzaga made in the first half was not guarding Jackson at all. When Timme goes in the contest a shot, Jackson goes to the basket and is wide open. They’ll do that all night in Gonzaga lets them.

 

Four fouls for Timme