March Madness Day One
The first day of March Madness is upon us! While not as exciting with our Wolverines missing the Big Dance for the second year in a row, it is still a fun event.
So far 3-seed Creighton is the only top seed to take care of business, beating Akron handily. 11-seed Duquesne upset 6-seed BYU, and some no-name agricultural school beat Mississippi State. 14-seed Morehead State is leading 3-seed Illinois by one point with lots of time remaining.
What games are you watching today? What upsets are you picking? Who will win the whole thing?
March 21st, 2024 at 11:14 PM ^
DJ Burns on NC Stae is a unicorn...big, thick post player and a southpaw with a great jump hook/floater.
March 21st, 2024 at 11:21 PM ^
Dickinson with the double-double in the first half. Why can't we get players like that?
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:25 AM ^
Ok Warde, Medved and Devries are out of the tournament. Get off your ass, get to fucking work and start interviewing them.
I'd like to start eanjoying March Madness again soon.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:29 AM ^
Am I the only one googling “Where is Samford University” right now? 2 pt game with 4:15 left.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:29 AM ^
Samford only down a bucket with 4:28 left!
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:29 AM ^
Oh my lord I would love to watch Kansas go down
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:48 AM ^
I wouldn't mind it, other than that I need a Jayhawk win to finish 14-2 for the first day of my one and only bracket.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:39 AM ^
Samford’s PG is absolutely wild. His dribble radius is spastically far and he’s running around the half court set as if he’s playing a neighborhood game of tag.
Oh, and he also has a sturdy wad of tissue in his right nostril from a nosebleed. I love the tournament.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:40 AM ^
Can't help being a little amused by Dickinson getting yelled at by his teammate for not boxing out
Edit: And then getting totally blown by for a dunk in the last minute lol
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:44 AM ^
If you combined rugby, laser-tag, and capture the flag but kept points using a basketball and a hoop, you’d get Samford basketball.
Everyone looks like they’re being chased by bees.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:48 AM ^
2 point game 37 seconds to go.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:49 AM ^
Dickinson just got barbecued on a closeout in clutch time.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:51 AM ^
I’m convinced the Samford HC has never drawn up a play in his life. He just says, “Everyone put on a jersey and these sneakers and go fucking crazy”.
4 pt game, 22 seconds left.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:53 AM ^
He drew up a hell of an inbounds play
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:53 AM ^
FUCK OFFICIALS!!!!!
Highway fucking robbery.
Worse than the Trey Burke block.
Absolute horeshit.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:57 AM ^
Samford absolutely got screwed on that call, but this biased Michigan fan says the call was still worse on Trey's block.
Haha
Trey, if I can picture correctly did have some arm and body "brushing" as the ball was being blocked. Completely horrid and great defensive positioning. But tonight...there wasn't anything but defenders fingertips on the ball from behind.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:53 AM ^
The block was clean!!
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:53 AM ^
Holy shit, that was a worse call than the Trey Burke foul.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:53 AM ^
The block was clean!
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:53 AM ^
Samford just got fucked by the refs on that call to save Kansas
A referee crew of Hellen Keller, Stevie Wonder, and Ray Charles could have called that correctly.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:55 AM ^
Those three are busy working as B1G hockey refs.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:54 AM ^
THE BLOCK WAS CLEAN (part deux)
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:54 AM ^
What a block. And they got the loose ball too. Refs, smh.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:54 AM ^
Somewhere Rick Pitino is smiling with that block called foul.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:55 AM ^
All. Ball.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:55 AM ^
Kansas just got the Louisville treatment with that block/phantom foul. Disgusting.
As if I needed another reason to hate Kansas. I hope Charlie Weis comes back to town and eats all of your hamburgers.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:55 AM ^
Tony Greene eat yer heart out
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:56 AM ^
Shit like this - and the lack of a review - makes basketball increasingly hard to watch. The game is just too big for the refs at this point.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:58 AM ^
But they take a few extra minutes on the out of bound play but not the block?
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:57 AM ^
We can review this for how long and tenths of a second 30 seconds ago. But we can't review a REAL call.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:58 AM ^
Kansas was the better team for the majority of the game, IMO they deserve the win.
But bummer on that foul call --- that was a HELLA FUN basketball game, I wish it had a better finish than that.
I mean this in the nicest way possible but they’re a novelty act that caught the sleeping giant during his nap. I can’t imagine that style of play is very sustainable but it sure is fun. KU was up 22 pts I think and it was a 1 pt game under a minute left. Hell of a fight.
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:59 AM ^
This is the worst officiated game I've seen since Northwestern vs. Gonzaga many years ago (I'm pretty sure that game was after the Michigan vs. Louisville game, if not than it's since that game)
March 22nd, 2024 at 12:59 AM ^
Scummy Kansas and Bill Self squirm their way into another victory.
The refs stole my muppets, dammit.
Rule of thumb as a ref is "don't tweet it if you don't see it". Tough angle when you're trailing the play, looking thru it. Gotta go with a no call there, you just have a terrible look thru the backs of the players from behind.
But dipshit ballhandler gets the benefit of doubt as he goes for a dunk and crashes to the floor. I'm sure the immediate brain reaction is "must be a foul" and the lips parse to whistle.
Just more bunk norms that are so increasingly frustrating to watch as the years go by.
Blue bloods have all the fun
And get all the calls. I truly believe Bill Self would’ve evaporated had they lost that game. Would’ve been a better ending as well.
Another ref rule of thumb - on a hacking arm movement (attempted block/steal) ball goes up it's a foul. Ball is level or goes down, nothing. That ball went level after defender flew by...because it was legal.
Tough set of shoes to be in for that ref, he was all alone. But he made a "cadence call" letting the player movement dictate his whistle, and he guessed. Sucks, but it's not all on the ref. Both teams/coaches made bad plays/calls multiple times during the game.
If the KU player going for the dunk didn’t hit the deck as hard as he did and got up going towards the loose ball, I think the refs hold their whistle and keep play resuming.
Damn shame.
The refs from the Samford game should be put out to pasture. Inexcusable.