Sweet 16 is set!!! Wow, some snoozers and some doozers! Gotta agree with K-Watt's dismay with Reggie Miller's addition to Gus Johnson's squad. Except for when Gus rips Reggie about Cheryl, Reggie should leave Gus and Len Elmore to call the doozers. And speaking of snoozers...snap on the snoozer bumper sticker on Marv Albert's calls. He called a great FSU/VCU game. And with some great and-1's, he didn't drop his famous, "YESSSSS, AAAAND IT COUNTS!!!!" What's wrong Marv? NCAA Hoops don't carry enough bite!?!?
Back to the games.
ARIZONA 93 DUKE 77
T went nuts today when we broke this game down, but it still must be said, this win for Zona is on Derrick Willaims and Arizona's hot shooting, but the loss is on Coach Has-a-crush-on-Kyrie-ski!!!
How do you give most of the touches to Kyrie Irving after he was out for 3 months!?!? He finished with 28 points, but Nolan Smith got Duke to this point, and finishes with 2 points!?!? Smith pulled Jimmer-like miracles all year by turning high ball screen into buckets. Nolan was unstoppable!! So when Arizona was going unconscious, why didn't Coach Will-probably-sit-on-the-CBS-panel-ski call at least one high ball screen to answer Zona's barrage of hoops? They may have not been able to stop Zona's hot streak, but Nolan Smith could have fought fire with fire off those high ball screens.
But not even the ghost of John Wooden's retinal scan into the Coach K's Lair could answer why Coach K, didn't give the Poo Devils a chance to win.
Even with Nolan going Nolan, it would have been tough to beat Arizona on that night. Kudos D-Will!!! And the Tar Heel nation down Tobacco Road thanks you Coach Shove-Kyrie-down-our-throat-ski.
FLORIDA 83 BYU 74 (O.T)
Bottom line, Jimmer ran out of gas. He still had a great season, but I gotta admit, in not seeing much tape on him, I assumed his 1.3 steals per game showed that he had some defense in his arsenal. But with Florida going after their last shot with 7 seconds left in the 2nd half, their missed shot from the left side went to the right side of the court, and both BYU posts made good block outs and the Florida rebound was from Jimmer's check coming all the way from the top of the key! That's bad enough, but Jimmer's reaction to the o-board was a non-chalant close-out! Shame Jimmer! If you get that rebound, you have the ball with 4-5 seconds left to win in regulation.
Shoulda woulda coulda! Jimmer had many chucks from down town before and after that bad block out, and he just ran out of steam.
Florida fills the role of "that team" that goes far in the tourney despite one's lack of respect for that team. The Gators are this year's Tennessee. They're in tough v. Butler tomorrow.
BUTLER 61 WISCONSIN 54
Butler just went Butler. I was blinded by my respect for Wisconsin and Bo Ryan because I've had the Big Ten Network up my butt all year. Paulsen was yelling on the top of his lungs in the Insanity Room saying, "Trust in the Butler!"
J-Dawg has a great point in Butler Head Coach, Brad Stevens being one of the best in-game coaches this side of a Bobby Knight chair-throw. Butler's bigs in Matt Howard should match up well vs. SEC Player of Year, Chandler Parsons. This is a great match-up, and we're gonna ride the Butler train tomorrow v. Butler!
UCONN 74 SDSU 67
Kemba Walker. Ahhhh thank you!
KENTUCKY 62 OHIO STATE 60
Tonnes of credit to senior centre, Josh Harrelson ruling the boards and making timely hoops to pace Kentucky with timely defense and 3's. Ohio State played well, but Kentucky made the last shot and Ohio State had a good luck at the buzzer and Kenucky rolls on!
UNC 81 MARQUETTE 63
Men vs. Boys. No no no, UNC-Men vs. Marquette-boys, not Duke-boys. Boom!!
VCU 72 FSU 71 (OT)
D-Watt put it perfectly when there was lack of checking in on this game because, "No one has any of these team in their brackets!!" But the ending was a great end to head into overtime, despite an anti-climatic call by Marv.
That's it, lets get our Elite 8 on tomorrow.
Commish A-Dish
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