Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

Eight games. Still impressive.

 

"For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack." - Rudyard Kipling

WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ... WOLF! .... PACK! ...

 

Welcome to the ACC indeed.

 

All it took was Dave Doeren declaring they weren’t a basketball school.

 

Any guess who the last team to beat NC State was?

 

Did he tell Steve Smith to kiss his a_s again?

 

Pitt.

Jeff Capel stuck that pebble in their proverbial shoe, right?

 

If you were in the women’s pep band in the mid 90s, I probably owe you an apology for making a round of 32 game in Tuscaloosa a miserable experience. If it is any consolation, they were smart enough the next year to not seat the opponent’s band in our student section.

 

Did it twice. This NC State team is fun as hell to watch. Love to see them make the Final Four.

 

Especially over UNC, which completely forgot how to play the sportsball in the last five minutes last night.

 

I was in the pep band, but didn't go to Tuscaloosa.

My last two years, my section was ... me for the women's tournament. They would sign up for the Duke and Chapel Hill men's games, but couldn't be bothered to show up for the women's games. Which was dumb ... Kay Yow won 20 and was usually in the AP poll. Guys were trying to rise from the ashes after the Jim Valvano mess. The last two years, even though we had two different bands, the pep band director sidled up to me and said "show up for anything you want." In part because our section needed numbers, in part to say thank you ...

We did go to State College, where Kay Yow coached the only team that was not a home team in the first two rounds to advance. Took out Penn State ... and, in hindsight, thank goodness. Rene Portland was not a decent person.

 

And especially the final 90 seconds.