So damn close. Would’ve been the greatest moment in the history of the NCAA Tournament, bar none, past, present or future — absolutely unsurpassed and unsurpassable. Instead: it hits the rim, and Duke wins another championship. Meh. On Twitter, several people made the comparison to Tom Watson’s missed putt at the 18th hole at the British Open. I think that’s… Read more »
Live-tweeting below. You can join in by clicking “Make a comment” at the top of the window, or by tweeting something @brendanloy, or by emailing 14115@scribblelive.com. [Live window removed; full transcript after the jump.] Folks, this isn’t just a basketball game. It isn’t just a title game. It isn’t just the first game in my entire life that I’ve had… Read more »
[Originally posted around noon Monday; bumped to top. -ed.] I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t have any serious emotional investment in Butler. I don’t claim any “ownership” of this team or its tournament run. Like the sidebar at right says, I’m simply on the Butler bandwagon. When I went out to the grocery store after Saturday’s game,… Read more »
Whatever happens in Indianapolis tonight between Butler and Duke, I think Chicago’s Mark Buehrle has already clinched SportsCenter’s “Top Play” of the day: Last season, he pitched a perfect game. This season, on Opening Day no less, he starts things off with a perfect play. Nice. Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure I know one thing that won’t be a “top play,”… Read more »
[Bumped. Originally posted Sunday at 1:41 PM. -ed.] From what I’ve seen on Twitter, SportsCenter and elsewhere, the “expert” consensus appears to be that Duke simply has too many offensive weapons for even Butler’s excellent defense to contain. The same people who never believed Butler could make it this far, and who still fundamentally don’t understand how they’ve managed to… Read more »
[Sorry for the delay in getting this full update online. I blame fatherhood!] Matt Wiser clinched victory in the 15th annual Living Room Times men’s NCAA pool Saturday night when Duke beat West Virginia in the second national semifinal. The Duke-WVU game was a winner-take-all LRT pool showdown between Wiser and Sharon Greggs. If the Mountaineers had won, Greggs, a… Read more »
From @denverpost via @CapturedBlog, here is a fantastic, Big Picture-worthy photo gallery from yesterday’s Final Four games. A few highlights: Bwahahahaha. Sparty sucks. In all seriousness, congrats to Izzo & Michigan State on a phenomenal run in the tournament. … Now: GO BUTLER!!! BEAT DUKE!!! (Again, full gallery here.)
My ability to live-tweet during Saturday’s games will, I suspect, be considerably limited, for toddler-related reasons. Nevertheless, I will once again be confining my tweets, and any comments thereon, to the window below. In addition, tweets (including retweets) from Kyle Whelliston, Andy Glockner, Pat Forde and Seth Davis and Mark Schlabach, and Butler student Sarah Black, will also appear automatically… Read more »
Dayton’s win over North Carolina in the NIT title game Thursday lifted Steve Ivey of Greensboro, NC to the championship of the 6th annual — and perhaps last — Living Room Times NIT pool. The Flyers’ win also denied Rick Boeckler a record third LRT pool title. Ivey, a 2005 Kentucky grad, finishes with 188 points out of a possible… Read more »