2011 ncaa

christ, kemba walker just single handedly beat witchita st (29pts in 2nd half), who is a lot better team than uconn

i was at the game last wk where he scored 42~

anyway.

the other thing i wanted to say is that carter blackburn is a really good broadcaster

yeah they might've wanted to try some new strategies at guarding him

jesus christ duke looks amazing

w/ the way unc looked in puerto rico, they look like they could legit make a run at undefeated

shit they play mich st huh -- they could lose that game, looked like mich st had the guards to play with them & if duke has a weakness it's probably inside -- marquette is getting good points down there right now

if duke has a weakness it's probably inside

meaning that draymon greene could have a big game while mich st guards play duke to about a draw

man there are a bunch of large white kids on this team

it's weird how teams just seem to routinely forget about kyle singler allowing him to just nail open threes -- they rarely even run him off screens it seems like, so i'll chalk up "invisibility" as a small skill

i was enjoying the duke game for a bit and then made a crucial misstep and unmuted it

tho damn marquette is back in this apparently?

DON'T HATE ON VITALE

did you see vitale with the little kid he gave the book to? it was nightmarish

Vitale is making book on the side with kids as clients?!?

i guess he wrote a children's book? so there was an extended shot of this little kid holding the book and vitale, with full robotic smile, shaking him and mussing his hair for like 20 seconds

i wonder if the book is dedicated to the general, robert montgomery knight

nah, probably his dear friend jimmy v. who taught us all never to give up

the guy is so hilarious during games, c'mon

dude can't carry raftery's jock

well i'll agree w/ that

listening to bobby knight do color is weird, because (apart from having to hear the play-by-play man kiss his ass for two hours) he's awkward and his contempt for everyone around him is thinly veiled. but he will actually say interesting things about the game being played, sometimes things no one else would notice or mention.

the thing with vitale is that everything about the game is merely a pretext for him to start shouting acronyms (that he then explains) or go off on one of his standard digressions (robert montgomery knight, jimmy v, david thompson, the 15 players that would be make his _____ starting five, dean michaelangelo smith, etc). when shit happens -- was that a five-second call or a foul? -- he's too busy talking about brett favre. he doesn't give a shit what's going on, he just wants your attention.

the team of raft, bilas, & blackburn doing the msu-chaminade game is basically abt as good as it gets

man there are a bunch of large white kids on this team

#shoutout to Kemba walker he was out there cooking!!! jimmywa11
John Wall

this is the most bizarre game ive ever seen uconn play

bizarre that theyre in it?

raft's 1st onions of the season is a beautiful thing imo

kemba gets 30 again, upsets msu

bizarre that theyre in it?

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:49 PM (45 minutes ago)

nah just that i have not seen a uconn team jack up as many 3s as that in a long time. i don't think oriakhi touched the ball for the first eight minutes of the second half

hey we won tho! hi 5

uconn is playing unbelievably & uk v sloppy

21-2 run

I feel like Georgetown vs Missouri might be the best thing ever aired live on ESPN U.

better than the budweiser frogs?

yes

Missouri is gonna wreck NCAA brackets. They are capable of being realllly good and then will just make one inexplicable decision after another, so they might as easily lose to a 13 seed mid-major as they could knock off a 1 seed.

Austin Freeman is so good this year!

shouldn't there be NO college basketball today? what are they thinking!

anyway butler is actually tied w/ duke at half right now

kyrie irving is insane

yes

my new favorite boxscore of 2010

http://i53.tinypic.com/33opjee.png

http://wm.grinnell.edu/athletics/mbasketball/statistics/MBK1011/1123fbm.htm

so in the second half, they took one shot from inside the arc -- and missed it.

they have 20 players, one of whom is named 'chalupa'

and griffin lentsch is not afraid to shoot the ball

grinnell is a blast to watch

haha 88 in the 1st half

somehow the oakland golden grizzlies are pretty good, abt 2 beat tenn @ tenn

blatant walk by morris there lol

what the hell just happened

loooool announcers go "and you can see the reaction from the bench...young stockton getting into it (*david stockton makes a gesture suggesting that he has enormous balls*)...oh"

a+ will anticipate gif

"David Stockton"

my girls making me nervous atm

cant believe they cut in to mens football yo

theres a bill simmons column abt this brewin'

I like this year's montage, although they probably should have had a rapid-fire sequence during the title game section of bricked shots, just for sake of accuracy.

xp Whaaaaa? One Shining Moment is awesome

maybe ive seen parts of it before? idk i never understood it, if you watch enough sportscenter you see all the highlights & it doesnt really improve them to put them in slomo w/ a michael mcdonald song

Haven't read the ^^ ilh liveblog of the game.

Watched about 70% of it, with the sound off. I think UConn got more rebounds than points in this game. Pretty wtf low shooting % all around.

I give UConn credit for good defense. Most of Butler's shots were rushed, with poor setup and poor form as a result, and that's why they missed a lot of them. But cripes, Butler was even missing their free throws, and you can't say UConn did that.

Quality of this championship game is reminder how young these guys are. Also an obvious byproduct of the nba snatching every promising underclassman for the past decade.

reminds me a bit of 04 -- 1st game vs duke was tense as hell & good bball, title game vs. ga tech was p bad

calhoun immediately credits/defends the big east in his press conf

has there ever been an ncaa champion that did not have a winning record in its own conference? (nc state was 8-6 in the acc in '83, wiki says villanova was 11-8 in the big east in '85)

this was the background on my phone all yr
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/490460/kemba2.jpg

and now its this
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/0b/fullj.3543d141022c92c8319cb7ea2e7d16d4/3543d141022c92c8319cb7ea2e7d16d4-getty-108227973mh170_ncaa_men_s_c.jpg

ugh

In a season that was full of surprises, this one turned out to be a dog.

It was the Huskies who came away with the ribbon.

that mickey kemba is awwww

I am glad March Madness is over so I can stop watching CBS and those stupid fucking "A Tradition Unlike Any Other" Masters commercials....

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, April 4, 2011 11:51 PM (Yesterday)

this is for the masters fwiw, yuo have 1 more eewk

fuck yakkll fwiw

no it stops now bc March Madness is the only time I'll watch CBS live

^ OTM

Anyway, one of the best tournaments of my lifetime ends not with a bang but with a whimper. What a crappy game.

I ask again, how much money does Jim Calhoun earn this year because of Kemba Walker? Is his contract public?

y it's public

someone just told me 1m bonus for winning, but not sure abt that

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/conn/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/CalhounContract

1 months annual salary for participating in ncaa tourney
2 months annual salary for final 4
3 months annual salary for winning ncaa

The only people capable of enjoying that ugly train wreck of a game were UConn coach, players and fans. So, enjoy!

Glad UConn was able to win a title before their three-year probation goes into effect! Good timing.

Thanks for posting, johnny. So, $175,000 bonus for winning )based on his salary, not speaking/appearances). Nothing in there about the Big East tournament that I saw.

wtf guy

in a USA Today online report Tuesday, Northern Arizona coach Mike Adras told the newspaper he gave his No. 1 vote to the Buckeyes.

Adras said he also put Kansas No. 2 before voting for UConn third on his ballot.

"I voted for who I thought was the best team in the country based on the entire body of work during the season," Adras told USA Today. "I believe it is Ohio State. I want to congratulate Connecticut for winning the NCAA tournament. They deserved it."

lol, why do they even do a postseason ranking? so pointless and dumb.

cmon espn, really

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0405/ncw_a_diggins01_576.jpg

What the...

Kemba Walker recently read his first book

how does that even work...

lots of kids don't read books, especially poor kids

They don't normally graduate from college in three years though!

exactly

wooooooooooooooot-uh!

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6381288

#1

Smart kid

gus johnson and cbs have parted ways ;_;

NO

what?

gary williams to retire from maryland

wiled out w/ the whole uconn team at the bar tonight

lamb was slumped as hell lol

http://yfrog.com/z/h2ywrfgsj

momo jones transferring from zona

So much for that Calhoun's bonus:

UConn to lose two scholarships
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6571897

A low rating is costly to Calhoun personally. His contract calls for him to donate $100,000 to a UConn scholarship fund if the program doesn't meet the APR. He also will forfeit his postseason bonus of $87,500, earned during UConn's run to the national title.

er..."for Calhoun's bonus".

Although, now that I think about it, I kinda like my typo.

guess he'll be giving back more than a dime

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/08/18/Sports/Images/chinabrawl.jpg?uuid=aBRx0MmzEeCT-MGuhSBOLw

hoyas brawl in china

this is insanity

chair throwing!!

seems like the chinese won that fight right??

I feel like I'm more excited about supporting a Hoyas team built for completely insane Chinese riots than about the previous three years of "We should be good, and we will be good for a while, and then we will completely implode by the end of the season." I feel like if we crap out in February 2012 we will at least do it by like, making a huge ruckus at Pitt or something.

kinda looks like the hoyas got jumped -- the dude in the khaki shorts was out there in a flash

http://eye-on-college-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26283066/31398073

From reading about the game, though, it sounded like the actual insanity was preceded by a game full of rough play; Georgetown had 28 fouls to 11 for the Chinese dudes at halftime.

Also from the WaPo article Earlier in the game, Rocket forward Xu Zhonghao had approached Thompson while he was yelling instruction to his players and then began berating him. Thompson stared at Xu in disbelief before officials halted play for several minutes in the third quarter.

Really really want to see these dudes come play at Verizon Ctr, that'd be the most fun thing since the Duke&Obama game in 2010.

what the fuck

Although this makes it sound like the foul discrepancy was not actually because the Hoyas were fighting dirty (so much as the refs fighting dirty): http://hoyatalk2.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=24494&page=1#448237

andre drummondddddddd

love the first post of this thread so much

rip big east; i guess heaven needed a bunch of catholic schools with no football programs

Interesting point by Dick Vitale here:

https://twitter.com/DickieV/status/329668393055694848