Running NCAA men's tournament thread 2012

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Baylor getting cocky after 80 years of sucking. That's rich.

 

[albert77]

Baylor getting cocky after 80 years of sucking. That's rich.

Ah, cut 'em some slack. As you said, after 80 years of suckage, they're entitled to a little cockiness. It won't last.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Baylor crowd chanting, "Big 12 rejects," as Colorado fades down the stretch.

I hope they enjoy themselves for the 18 more months they aren't on probation. At least they probably won't kill anybody this time, though.

A bit harsh, but close to the mark.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

fork.

That's all I got. piotr, hit me up so I can do what I have to do. I'm an honorable man, though a very unhappy man right now.

Time to commence the drinking.

Sorry, Moddy. As Whitman said, Hoosiers had absolutely no business winning that game. They shot well and rebounded well, but couldn't take care of the ball at all.

Reminded me of any number of Lakers playoff games where they had no business winning, yet somehow pulled it out (cue the loudmouths saying "REFS!!!!!!"). Then fans of other teams walked away saying "f%$#ing Lakers!"

Finally, they're once again saying "F%$#ing Hoosiers!"

For at least another six days.

As for our wager: just grab any photo of Bob Knight you want to off of Google Images. Then go to your Forum Profile Information, paste the URL for the photo into "I have my own pic" and there it should be.

And, if you please, caption it "Hoo Hoo Hoo HOOSIERS!"

Thanks.

 

[SoCalDude]

Lesley Visser's eyebrows are scary.

Yes. Here is how bad it looks.

While Lesley Visser was interviewing Ashley Judd -- who NEVER looks terrible -- all I could focus on was... "what happened to Leslie Visser?"

Someone stuffed dinner plates in her cheeks.

It is very sad, and depressing, to watch beautiful women mutilate themselves.

Me and another guy here got deked. During one of the early interviews, the camera angle on Visser made it look like she was wearing a tube top under her coat. The top was at her shoulders and bare midriff. Wow, who the heck dressed her?? Then a few minutes later, she was back with a different angle. Turned out here freaking belt was the exact same color as her skin. It wasn't a bare midriff, it was her belt.

 

[SoCalDude]

I like how some people will use USC for Southern Cal on first reference, as if its the only one. Last time I checked USC was also located in Columbia, S.C.

Well that tends to happen when one school wins a dozen or so national titles in football and baseball to go along with seven Heisman Trohphy winners. Not to mention all the other titles in the Olympic sports. South Carolina finally won its first national title a couple years ago. Oh, let's not forget the academics either.

The heck with the San Francisco-South Florida rivalry. Gamecocks and Trojans!

The Trojans don't want to be called Southern Cal, they prefer USC and they've repeatedly asked to be called that ... even put the request on the inside front page of their media guides. But the forking eastern press does whatever it wants.

 

[Versatile]

Mississippi sports teams prefer to be called Ole Miss, too. But your name gets spelled out. That's how it works. No one could possibly be confused as to which university is being written about with Southern California and South Carolina written out on first reference.

 

[sportbook]

Lesley Visser's eyebrows are scary.

Yes. Here is how bad it looks.

While Lesley Visser was interviewing Ashley Judd -- who NEVER looks terrible -- all I could focus on was... "what happened to Leslie Visser?"

Twenty years ago Lesley was beautiful in person. Never thought it translated well to TV but the first time I saw her in person in 1996 I couldn't get over how pretty she was.

 

[franticscribe]

I would guess that over 95 percent of readers of newspaper sports sections, and 100 percent here in Boston, see USC and know it's the University of Southern California. South Carolina trying to claim the initials could well be actionable under trademark law. South Carolina has a name, South Carolina. When they say USC, they're to conceal their century-old mediocrity in college sports.

In the South South Carolina, USC is South Carolina more often. It's not that different than OSU, which is Oklahoma State, Ohio State or Oregon State depending on where you live. UM can mean Miami, Michigan or Maryland. UT is Tennessee or Texas.

Fixed that for ya.

Poor Little Carolina's identity crisis. Outside the state when you say USC, everyone, except maybe some in Georgia, thinks you're talking about Southern California. When you say Carolina, everyone thinks you're talking about UNC. Yet they desperately cling to both as being their own.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

;D

I like how some people will use USC for Southern Cal on first reference, as if its the only one. Last time I checked USC was also located in Columbia, S.C.

Well that tends to happen when one school wins a dozen or so national titles in football and baseball to go along with seven Heisman Trohphy winners. Not to mention all the other titles in the Olympic sports. South Carolina finally won its first national title a couple years ago. Oh, let's not forget the academics either.

The heck with the San Francisco-South Florida rivalry. Gamecocks and Trojans!

The Trojans don't want to be called Southern Cal, they prefer USC and they've repeatedly asked to be called that ... even put the request on the inside front page of their media guides. But the forking eastern press does whatever it wants.

When they quit playing Pete Carroll and John Robinson-type plausible-deniability games, we'll consider it.

;D

 

[Moderator1]

fork.

That's all I got. piotr, hit me up so I can do what I have to do. I'm an honorable man, though a very unhappy man right now.

Time to commence the drinking.

Sorry, Moddy. As Whitman said, Hoosiers had absolutely no business winning that game. They shot well and rebounded well, but couldn't take care of the ball at all.

Reminded me of any number of Lakers playoff games where they had no business winning, yet somehow pulled it out (cue the loudmouths saying "REFS!!!!!!"). Then fans of other teams walked away saying "f%$#ing Lakers!"

Finally, they're once again saying "F%$#ing Hoosiers!"

For at least another six days.

As for our wager: just grab any photo of Bob Knight you want to off of Google Images. Then go to your Forum Profile Information, paste the URL for the photo into "I have my own pic" and there it should be.

And, if you please, caption it "Hoo Hoo Hoo HOOSIERS!"

Thanks.

Well, it is pretty simple. Each team gets the same amount of time, in this case 40 minutes. Indiana was able to 63 points in those minutes. VCU got 61. So Indiana wins, deservedly so because it scored more points. That's the way it works.

 

[Dick Whitman]

That was a bad matchup for Indiana, which doesn't have a real point guard. But I'd also have a hard time saying that Indiana is a better team than VCU after watching that game. Granted, I've seen Indiana play probably 25 times this season and seen VCU three times. That's the one-and-done format for you, though.