Selection Sunday-NCAA tournament thread

Airrrr-balll!

 

Two brain-dead plays by Marquette at the end. Lucky to advance.

 

Marquette's decision-making in last 30 seconds sucks.

 

Meanwhile, on another network ... Zags getting some breathing room.

 

Bjorn Borg and friends starting to hit some shots against Wichita.

 

Dear Trooper Bari: As a matter of fact, here in Boston we DO get the Pac-12 Network.

 

It's freaking cold here. I think I'll use my fucking brackets to stoke a fire.

 

Dear Dog: How can you be in bracket burn mode yet? Did you play some longshots or are you in a pool with so many members you have to be perfect to win? Or did you just pick Georgetown?

 

And of course, just as the capper, at the buzzer, the Marquette guy just HAS to hurl the ball up in the rafters. Just has to.

I shit you not, I have seen HS refs call technical fouls for that.

The game is not final until the referee signs and approves the scorebook. Go look it up.

As a result all good coaches tell their players, "when the fucking game is over, you toss the ball to the ref. You don't throw it in the stands, you don't throw it over the backboard, you don't punt it into the upper deck, you toss the fucking ball to the fucking ref. I know you just utterly have to go into some kind of drama-queen orgasm because we won and I love ya and all that shit, but please delay your crotch-clutching schlong-stroking victory dance until after the refs leave the floor, because you know the fucking refs are fucking idiots, and some fucking day they are really going to fuck some team over with a bullshit technical at the buzzer, but if you don't pull that shit, it won't be us, so don't pull that shit, okey-dokey??"

 

The Shockers have been unconscious from outside in the final minutes of this game. WSU has completely taken this one away from the Zags.

 

That last 3 was just insane.

 

Dear Mr. Gee,

Then your cable or satellite provider is among the more enlightened of its kind. My post was not meant as an indictment of all those who live east of Appalachia; rather, it was to highlight that the Pac-12 may not be as dog-awful as the college basketball intelligentsia believes it to be. Apologies for any offense caused.


YHS, etc.,

TrooperBari