North Carolina v Kansas
A couple of basketball blue bloods will go at it for the national championship on Monday. Kansas seems to be favored by 4, by I like UNC based on the fearsome looking pair of Bacot and Manek. Between them they are 100' feet tall, with another 50' of head hair and beard. On the other side, too bad former Michigan commit Jalen Wilson slipped away and is now starring for Kansas.
Fuck Kansas, both the team and the state. Coach gets caught cheating and the "school" gives him an extension. Kansas values!
...and then there is UNC with fake classes and fake grades on real transcripts.
Not only did they escape NCAA punishment (lolz), that school overall somehow kept its accreditation?!
It looks like a cheateor game to me.
If Kansas wins maybe there will be a vacated title ala 2013 Louisville.
Neither cheat school will get a banner and both spoiled fanbases will cry for years.
With no Villanova this seems like the best case scenario.
Yeah, I’m bummed Nova won’t be a part of the finals. It’s hard to tell these days but Jay Wright seems like an A+ guy to me.
I'd like to agree about Jay Wright, but at this point I'm happy I haven't heard negative things.......
Death by bunga bunga
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-bunga-bunga-parties-brought-14153356
Sounds like it really happened.
Oh my... I didn't know that was a thing.
I was thinking of this joke I remember from grade school: http://www.jokes4us.com/dirtyjokes/bungajoke.html
If Kansas wins you know they are gonna have strippers on a pole in the locker room with Snoop Dogg and $100 bills floating around the room.
These "student athletes" are paid so well that this feels like the NBA G League Championship.
Was really pulling for Nova. They seem to be the only modern “Blue Blood” that hasn’t been implicated in shady or outright blatant violations
I guess you forgot about the “infamous” pay phone scandal - the horrors:
Eh.
I may miss it because I'll be watering my plant.
I hope unc pounds their cheating asses
Cheater pounding cheating ass? It’s two cheaters. Honestly the ncaa is the worst of them all
I think UNC is the worse cheater. Paying guys under the table is a little unsavory but it's small potatoes compared to academic fraud.
Academic fraud over multiple decades. We're not talking a couple seasons here. Fuck North Carolina. They're the bigger cheaters. And zero punishment to show for it.
Edit: double post
I would like to see UNC win but my money will be on Kansas -4.
Isn’t basketball over?
I'm going to let my masochist flag fly -- Coach K was OK!
this story softened me a bunch about coach K: https://purpose2play.com/fast-breaks/meet-duke-fan-syndrome-coach-ks-buddy/
37 years with a special fan who had down syndrome. there has to be a heart in there, somewhere, to do that.
as for the game, UNC is the least detestable of the 2, and i kind of like their coach. billy self should be in federal prison, but instead he is lionized by a flat state.
Coach K was dirty until the end.
Zion Williamson.
Funniest thing about Zion is me being born and raised in Kentucky and you always hear the stories about how not getting him was the death of UK basketball and that Duke cheated to get him from them. I’m like, “so they paid more than y’all were willing to”?
It’s always the same lame ass response of “we don’t cheat at UK”.
So Duke lands 6 five stars and it’s cheating(which probably is) and y’all land 5 of them and it’s because Cal is clean(I’m, nope)? Ok, got it!
EVERY successful coach is dirty. John Wooden was dirty 50 years ago. So was Adolph Rupp 70 years ago. This isn't anything new.
I'll play. Do you think Pitino and Beilein in 2013 (at the same level, in the final game) cheated in similar amounts?
No. Our dirty underwear was cleaner than their dirty underwear.
Football analogy here, but Don James had his Washington team run aground of some NCAA violations in the 90's, and it led directly to his resignation. One of his comments in his resignation press conference: "You show me a coach who plays by the rules, and I'll show you a team who finishes 3-8." The same applies to hoops, on a larger level, due to the smaller roster sizes and larger TV money involved.
Neither of these programs are particularly likeable. Kansas was at the center of the Adidas scandal, and UNC literally fabricated transcripts to keep players eligible.
I'm rooting for the meteor.
Go Heels. My 2nd favorite basketball team.
Both teams are playing great, Bacot and Manek have been good and Love has been wild, UNC started hitting 3s after not being great from deep all year (it seems anyways?) wish we could have found that magic! Hopefully an entertaining game
tbh, I think RJ Davis has been quietly keeping UNC in the tournament
Born and raised Wolverine, completed my undergrad at UofM. Current Jayhawk, working on my masters. I hated Kansas as a basketball school… it seemed like they always got great talent and went deep into March. Now I’m rooting for them.
I would've loved to have seen them beaten by Michigan in the Elite Eight though! But alas, here we are. So for now it’s Rock Chalk, Jayhawk…. Whatever the F that means😂
Unless I missed something all Kansas did was pay players (an objectively good thing) while UNC had fake classes. Go Kansas because they did nothing wrong
What isn't corrupt anymore. Just enjoy the entertainment. Both teams are good and have some elite talent.
Just to be clear fake classes will always be illegal. UNC should have gotten in trouble outside of sports for that. So no, what UNC did isn’t OK now. It has nothing to do with NIL.
If you let your regular students take fake classes too it's all good
I thank UNC for beating Duke twice, but I'm still rooting for the fucking meteor.
Perfect final for 2022: Choose Your Cheater
UNC: 15 years of not making athletes attend class, an institutional conspiracy. How they avoided the death penalty is a tribute to NCAA corruption
UK: Five separate Level One violations and a history of paying recruits.
Remember when Jalen Wilson committed there, just after the violations were made public, and Wilson's message was "Coach told me not to worry about it" and we thought HE was the naive one.
I'll be rooting for Tim
The ONLY nice thing I can say about this game is that both jerseys are nice, clean, classic looks that have stayed pretty stable over time. I appreciate that.
Everything else about this game sucks.
In New Orleans for a week, but purposely decided to avoid the games in person. After going to the final fours in 2008, 2013, and 2018 I've come to the conclusion that watching basketball games on a football field is not worth the money.
go heels.
I'd probably agree after my experiences in 2013 and 2018.
I was out on Franklin st in Chapel Hill though for their championship in 2017, and it was an absolute blast. Wish I could be there again.
Enjoy New Orleans - Go Heels
The Duke - UNC semifinal was a classic. That may go down as the real championship game, with UNC winning rather easily against Kansas.
It was an incredible game that actually lived up to the hype.
Go Heels!
5th year senior for the win.
Well i did pick North Carolina to beat Kanas in one of my 4 brackets --so theres that .Figured an 8 was going to beat a 1 and then have smooth sailing to final 4