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Going to the Big Dance

MFS62 Mar 09 2015 09:44 PM

Your Manhattan Jaspers. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/manhattan ... IAa.pNbK5_ Congrats, Edgy. Later

Edgy MD Mar 10 2015 08:22 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

It was great to hear Gary Cohen bring the action last night. Apart from his graduation issues, Manhattan Coach Steve Masiello always concerns me with his jaundiced complexion.

Frayed Knot Mar 16 2015 02:46 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

"Let me tell you about who I have in my brackets" is one of those things like, 'let me tell you about my last golf game', ... 'about my current diet', 'about my fantasy team', ... 'my kid's school play', etc., in that, while it might be interesting to you, it's not the slightest bit interesting to anyone else.

Ceetar Mar 16 2015 03:01 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Frayed Knot wrote: "Let me tell you about who I have in my brackets" is one of those things like, 'let me tell you about my last golf game', ... 'about my current diet', 'about my fantasy team', ... 'my kid's school play', etc., in that, while it might be interesting to you, it's not the slightest bit interesting to anyone else. pretty much. I'll be rooting for Buffalo. and by rooting, I mean watching Spring Training and/or real baseball.

Ashie62 Mar 16 2015 06:13 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

I'll be pulling for Lafayette until Villanova finishes with them. Ok, time for an NIT bracket also..

Mets – Willets Point Mar 16 2015 08:26 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Frayed Knot wrote: "Let me tell you about who I have in my brackets" is one of those things like, 'let me tell you about my last golf game', ... 'about my current diet', 'about my fantasy team', ... 'my kid's school play', etc., in that, while it might be interesting to you, it's not the slightest bit interesting to anyone else. I heard Josh Levin compare people talking about their brackets to people talking about their bowel movements. "We all have them and we don't want to hear about them."

Vic Sage Mar 17 2015 08:32 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Hey Seawolf, why the fuck does Stony Brook keep dominating their pansy-ass conference and then continue to lose to Albany (ALBANY!) in the conference championship? I'd like to see SB get into the NCAA at least once in my lifetime. Can you do something about that? thanks.

HahnSolo Mar 17 2015 08:50 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Vic Sage wrote: Hey Seawolf, why the fuck does Stony Brook keep dominating their pansy-ass conference and then continue to lose to Albany (ALBANY!) in the conference championship? I'd like to see SB get into the NCAA at least once in my lifetime. Can you do something about that? thanks. That was an epic choke. Up 5 with the ball and just over a minute left, and lose in regulation!

MFS62 Mar 18 2015 08:00 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

My granddaughter's basketball team won the championship of their league. And that was my only March Madness this year. Later

Ashie62 Mar 18 2015 11:07 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Manhattan just ran into a hot team. BYU blew a 17 point lead to Ole Miss.

Frayed Knot Mar 18 2015 07:30 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Frayed Knot wrote: "Let me tell you about who I have in my brackets" is one of those things like, 'let me tell you about my last golf game', ... 'about my current diet', 'about my fantasy team', ... 'my kid's school play', etc., in that, while it might be interesting to you, it's not the slightest bit interesting to anyone else. I forgot to mention the other thing that annoys me at this time of year: 'Big Dance' references. Anyway, Quiz time - Name the two men to play in both a World Series and a Final Four?

Edgy MD Mar 18 2015 08:44 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Guessing here, but... Tony Gwynn and Chuck Conners.

Frayed Knot Mar 19 2015 05:59 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

No and no. Player #1: Pitcher. NCAA in '70s, WS in '80s Player #2: OF. NCAA in '80s, WS x2 = '90s & '00s

Edgy MD Mar 19 2015 06:34 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Not even a parting gift.

Nymr83 Mar 19 2015 06:55 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Vic Sage wrote: Hey Seawolf, why the fuck does Stony Brook keep dominating their pansy-ass conference and then continue to lose to Albany (ALBANY!) in the conference championship? I'd like to see SB get into the NCAA at least once in my lifetime. Can you do something about that? thanks. Albany went 15-1 in the conference, Stony Brook dominates nothing. go Great Danes!

Vic Sage Mar 19 2015 08:35 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

yeah, yeah, yeah. That's THIS year. But SB has been #1 or 2 in the conference for 5 of the last 6 seasons (#1 3 times), with a 74-22 conference record over that period, while Albany went 53-43 over that same stretch, with conference records of 9-7, 9-7. 9-7, 9-7 (seeing a pattern?) and 2-14 (making the 9-7 seasons seem like great accomplishments). So one could reasonably describe this period as one of Seawolfian "dominance". But despite their success, they have ZER0 conference championships to show for it, losing out to weaker Albany and Vermont teams each season in the championship series. So I think i have a reasonable beef with my alma mater, and you should count yourself (and your fellow alumni) unaccountably lucky.

d'Kong76 Mar 19 2015 10:08 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

This is the first year in a decade or so we didn't do pool brackets. I'm in two, have Notre Dame and Wis- consin as national champions.

Ceetar Mar 19 2015 10:18 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

d'Kong76 wrote: This is the first year in a decade or so we didn't do pool brackets. I'm in two, have Notre Dame and Wis- consin as national champions. {}

d'Kong76 Mar 19 2015 10:21 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

What's {}?

d'Kong76 Mar 19 2015 10:22 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Brackets... duh!

Frayed Knot Mar 19 2015 10:48 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Frayed Knot wrote: Anyway, Quiz time - Name the two men to play in both a World Series and a Final Four? So even though all the guesses here were very close -- and by 'All' I mean one, and by 'Close' I mean not really close at all -- I'm going to have cut the contest short and reveal the answers now. #1 -- Tim Stoddard, the 6' 7" righty reliever who had 13 years in the big leagues, mostly with Baltimore. He won a World Series w/the O's in 1983 which came nine years after winning a collegiate basketball championship for NC State. #2 -- Kenny Lofton, who appeared in the 1995 WS with the Braves (won) and then again with the 2002 SFG (didn't), also played guard for U-Arizona in the late '80s including 1988 where his team lost in the semis.

Frayed Knot Mar 21 2015 07:41 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

For all the giddy/out-of-breath talk about UPSETS!!!!, 27 of the 32 1st round games this year went according to the seedings.

Ashie62 Mar 21 2015 12:13 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

What were you expecting?

Frayed Knot Mar 21 2015 12:25 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

I don't expect anything. But those who are/were touting "all the upsets" in the tourney thus far seem to think that ZERO upsets is the expected outcome. It's like those who talk about how unpredictable each Sunday in the NFL is -- it's only unpredictable to those who are under the impression that it's supposed to be totally predictable.

Ashie62 Mar 22 2015 02:35 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Well said.

Frayed Knot Mar 22 2015 05:12 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Hey, even John Feinstein -- as big a fan of college hoops as anyone -- agrees with me about the amount of hype (deserved or otherwise) saying that; "the public-relations machines for the NCAA, Turner, and CBS are hard at work, relentlessly telling us just how great their multibillion dollar event is and how much it means to all Americans" Instead, he claims, this internally created noise is "camouflaging the very real fact that the game is broken" citing, among other things, low scoring, bad officiating, and often poor quality of play in games with little or no rhythm. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/co ... story.html

dgwphotography Mar 22 2015 08:04 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

This is a name you will hear more about in the future - Mustapha Heron. A 6-5, 200 lbs, plays for Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School. He's only a junior, and has already verbally agreed to go to Pitt. Mustapha Heron by dgwphotography, on Flickr

MFS62 Mar 23 2015 07:09 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Thank goodness Kentucky lost: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dayton-rea ... --spt.html They won't be able to win both the Men's and women's championships in the same year. Later

Ashie62 Mar 23 2015 04:06 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Lots of oddballs on the board now.

d'Kong76 Mar 28 2015 09:07 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Consistency and poise... an announcer said this!

Ashie62 Mar 29 2015 11:53 AM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Notre Dame lets Kentucky off the hook.

Frayed Knot Apr 04 2015 06:16 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

I wouldn't think that watching these hoops games from the upper levels or end zone areas of a football stadium can possibly be worth whatever they're charging for those seats.

d'Kong76 Apr 04 2015 06:39 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

I'd only go to any college basketball game if the tix were complimentary... and I got other free stuff.

themetfairy Apr 04 2015 06:51 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

I go for the music.

d'Kong76 Apr 04 2015 06:54 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Well, that's different!! :-)

Frayed Knot Apr 05 2015 02:06 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Apr 05 2015 02:52 PM

d'Kong76 wrote: I'd only go to any college basketball game if the tix were complimentary... and I got other free stuff. Well that's a whole 'nother subject. Why people with no connections to a particular college care as much as they do about college sports has always been a mystery to me. But without even getting into all that, while catching part of the Duke/Mich St game yesterday (I feel obligated to root for Duke because of several Dukie relatives) they had 'pan-around' shots of the [insert corporate name here] Dome in Indianapolis and the game had to have been nothing more than a rumor from large sections of the place and in those cases I can't even imagine folks WITH a connection to one of the teams paying actual cash money for a ticket. You can't possibly get a good view of the game from many (I'd say most) of those seats and the 'atmosphere' in an 80K arena has to suck too so the "I just wanted to be there" justification doesn't seem to matter either.

themetfairy Apr 05 2015 02:20 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Frayed Knot wrote: Why people with no connections to a particular college care as much as they do about college sports has always been a mystery to me. Same here.

MFS62 Apr 07 2015 09:21 PM Re: Going to the Big Dance

Congrats to Geno and the UCONN women. Ten championships, last three in a row. Later