The Blunder Years, Episode 48: Boozing, hooping, and faith’ing
Two old friends discussing drinking, Lent, faith, college basketball, rear-view mirrors, God, and more. Continue Reading
College Basketball
Wisconsin > Kentucky is Duke > UNLV 1991
Follow the bouncing ball here. 1990 National Championship Game: Duke vs. UNLV (UNLV won by 30. Mostly awful game.) 1991 Final Four: Duke vs. UNLV (Duke avenges, wins by 2 over undefeated UNLV team … and in Indianapolis no less.)… Continue Reading
It’s probably time to fire JT3, Georgetown
I went to Georgetown University for undergraduate. I’m old, so that was a long time ago (graduated in 2003). Four years after my crew of people graduated, we made a Final Four run with John Wallace and Jeff Green, etc.… Continue Reading
In terms of upsets, the two craziest NCAA Tournaments were 1999 and 2014. UConn won both, interestingly.
The 2014 NCAA Tournament was pretty crazy, for sure — an eight-seed (Kentucky) met a seven-seed (UConn) in the national championship game, after said eight-seed (at one point the No. 1 team in America) had dispatched the only undefeated team… Continue Reading
Florida’s Billy Donovan deserves a little bit more credit as a top-3 to top-5 college coach, no?
Cool subplot to Florida vs. UCLA’s Sweet Sixteen game tonight: in the 1987 Final Four, Providence lost by 14 to Syracuse — Derrick Coleman with 12 boards, eh? — and Indiana beat UNLV by four. Had Providence pulled out that… Continue Reading
Can Mark Few ever win an NCAA title at Gonzaga? (And what does that say about the idea of “mid-majors?”)
If you’re an average individual, chances are you know Gonzaga University because of the above clip — John Stockton went there — or because of the below clip: Secondary note of importance: that UCLA-Gonzaga game may be one of the… Continue Reading
Here’s the broader lesson in Mercer beating Duke in the first major upset of the 2014 NCAA Tournament
The Mercer team had seven seniors. The four guys with the most points for Mercer — Gollon, Coursey, Hall, and White Jr. — are all seniors. They’ve quite possibly played about 100 games together, and had countless more practices. Duke’s five starters contained one senior… Continue Reading
In the NCAA Tournament, will we ever see a 16-seed beat a 1-seed?
So far, a 16-seed has never defeated a 1-seed; the above video, featuring Princeton losing by 1 to Georgetown, is essentially the closest it’s ever been for that line (the expansion to 64 teams was in 1985, FYI). Interestingly, also in the… Continue Reading