Comments on: March Madness – Bracketology and Other Chides of March Trash Talk

By: JimWhite

JimWhite — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:07:57 +0000

Probably not until Omaha.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:50:53 +0000

Do the Gators play ASU this year?

By: JimWhite

JimWhite — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:27:55 +0000

Looks like I’ll finish the day having picked 11 of the sweet sixteen. I had Mississipi State over Memphis. Had a three pointer just miss at the buzzer that would have forced overtime. Oh, well. My final four is still intact.

Gator baseball won today and yesterday. They only missed the sweep on the road against a top ten team by one bad half inning in the bottom of the ninth Friday.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:14:43 +0000

Looks like I jinxed the Hoyas. Yikes. Had never seen Davidson before; a pretty heady and impressive little team they got there it turns out.

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:38:11 +0000

Sounds like Lisa Love’s doing a pretty good job. Glad to see that.

There went a bunch of brackets, Davidson (10) over Georgetown (2) by 4, came back from a 17 point deficit.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:06:09 +0000

ASU actually has a very solid women’s hoops program and have been consistently among the top ten or fifteen teams for many years now. The coach, Charli Turner Thorne, is classy, can really coach the kids up, and seems to recruit well. It is shocking that she hasn’t been stolen by one of the huge schools, but she seems to like it here because she has been given offers several times. I don’t follow the Lady Devils too closely, but I think that, although still good, they are a little inconsistent and not quite as good as usual this year. Hopefully they will rally and make a strong run in the tournament.

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:46:24 +0000

Speaking of NCAA Womens tourney, ASU is a 6 seed going up against 11 seed Temple tonight.

By: phred

phred — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:53:29 +0000

Thanks bmaz, I’ll check out the SpeedChannel rebroadcasts ; )

You’re probably right about the Hoyas, but hopefully the Badgers will prevail : ) Go Badgers!

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:23:43 +0000

Phred, F1 is carried on SpeedChannel, which is included in most cable packages. They carry live practice (late Thurs. night/very early Fri. morning depending on your time zone), live qualifying (late Fri. night/very early Sat. morning) and the race itself live (late Sat. night/very early Sun. morning). There is usually a tape replay during the regular part of the day for the above. All things considered, the SpeedChannel coverage is pretty competent; although it falls short of some of the European coverage (however, it is fairly neutral in balance compared to the Europeans, who all have their own bias in play as someone pointed out above).

No the Georgetown game has not been played yet, I was assuming they would beat Davidson. I actually think Georgetown has a decent shot to go all the way to be honest. If Roy Hibbert steps up big, and he is certainly capable of just that, they are awfully tough. Unfortunately for the Badgers, I think that the Hoyas are one of the teams least likely to be disrupted by the defense schemes and slow down game of Wisconsin, which just flat out gives fits to a lot of teams.

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:05:00 +0000

Hats off to the COUGS!!!

old LA area bumper sticker: I’m for USC and whoever’s playing Notre Dame 8^)