2020-21 College Basketball thread

[da man]

And if he misses it, ya gots a third overtime. Nothing to lose.

Second.

 

[HanSenSE]

Second.

Thanks. Fixed.

 

[Della9250]

How many true buzzer-beaters have there been in the Final Four? Talking game-winning baskets that go through with triple zeroes. Off the top of my head:
• Gonzaga-UCLA 2021
• Villanova-North Carolina 2016
• Kentucky-Duke 1992
• North Carolina State-Houston 1983

Any others?

some posted on Twitter that was the first game winning three at the buzzer in a semifinal game

 

[tapintoamerica]

He hacked his arm and grabbed the net.

On that block that led to the transition dunk.

Definitely a case where they needed to go to Gene Steratore to ask re: goal-tending but did not.

 

[da man]

some posted on Twitter that was the first game winning three at the buzzer in a semifinal game

Well, then, it MUST be true.

 

[Della9250]

How many true buzzer-beaters have there been in the Final Four? Talking game-winning baskets that go through with triple zeroes. Off the top of my head:
• Gonzaga-UCLA 2021
• Villanova-North Carolina 2016
• Kentucky-Duke 1992
• North Carolina State-Houston 1983

Any others?

Apparently the list is only:
2021 Jalen Suggs
2016 Kris Jenkins
1983 Lorenzo Charles
1977 Jerome Whitehead Marquette vs. Charlotte in a semifinal

 

[playthrough]

Box score listed 8,131 as attendance. Probably should have had a 6 in front that in normal conditions.

I went to a Final Four semifinal in Lucas Oil Stadium and sat in lower-level seats yet still watched most of the game on the jumbotron. It's so obnoxious to have basketball in NFL stadiums. And it's been the half-stadium setup so far in this tournament, but still sucky.

 

[Twirling Time]

I just came back from taking a pish and Mark Few is already at 629 career victories.

This is why K hangs on.

 

[Small Town Guy]

I dont think Stanford has any actual trees playing for it.

Did We Change the Definition of 'Literally'?

Literally every modern dictionary includes a definition for the metaphoric or intensifying sense of the word literally. Why do we hate the English language so?

We don't.

There is no plot by dictionary-makers to destroy our language. There is not even a plot to loosen our language's morals and corrupt it a bit. There is, however, a strong impulse among lexicographers to catalog the language as it is used, and there is a considerable body of evidence indicating that literally has been used in this fashion for a very long time. All of the dictionaries listed above also provide usage notes with the definition of literally, indicating that this sense is widely frowned upon. We include a note as well, which reads as follows:

Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary.

If this sense of literally is bothersome, you needn't use it. If you dislike hearing other people use it, you may continue to be upset. If you would like to broaden your complaint slightly, and insist that the original meaning of literal is the only proper one, go right ahead (although, before committing to this, you should be aware that this will restrict you to using literal when you mean "of, relating to, or expressed in letters").

The use of literally in a fashion that is hyperbolic or metaphoric is not new—evidence of this use dates back to 1769. Its inclusion in a dictionary isn't new either; the entry for literally in our 1909 unabridged dictionary states that the word is "often used hyperbolically; as, he literally flew."

Also, Cameron Brink literally is a tree so this is all, uh, moot, or, dare I say, mute.

 

[Wendell Barnhouse]

some posted on Twitter that was the first game winning three at the buzzer in a semifinal game

 

[Wendell Barnhouse]

How many true buzzer-beaters have there been in the Final Four? Talking game-winning baskets that go through with triple zeroes. Off the top of my head:
• Gonzaga-UCLA 2021
• Villanova-North Carolina 2016
• Kentucky-Duke 1992
• North Carolina State-Houston 1983

Kentucky-Duke was a regional final.

 

[Wendell Barnhouse]

Gonzaga-UCLA game facts:
—Tied for 6:23
—19 lead changes
—Largest lead was 7
—No more than 6 unanswered points
—Two/one-score deficit for 43:51 of 45:00