All-time March Madness hero Lorenzo Charles, of “They won it! On the dunk!” fame, has died in a bus accident at age 47. Charles’s signature basket was memorialized, among countless other places, in the third verse of my Battle Hymn of the Underdog: Glory, glory, Cinderella! Glory, glory, Cinderella! Glory, glory, Cinderella! The Madness marches on! I have read the… Read more »
So much for hope. Gus Johnson is officially out at CBS, and thus will no longer announce NCAA Tournament games. March Madness has lost its Voice. As I tweeted on Thursday when the news broke prematurely, this is the biggest announcing tragedy since another Johnson, Dave Johnson of “And DOWN The Stretch They Come!!!” fame, stopped broadcasting the Triple Crown… Read more »
Joe Lunardi’s inaugural speculative NCAA bracket for 2012 is out! Kentucky the #1 overall seed! Gonzaga a #3! USC a #12! Notre Dame in the NIT! (Fire Mike Brey!) Harvard the Ivy champ! Belmont a #8! Wichita State a #10! Jimmer-less WCC rookie BYU a #11! Saint Mary’s a #12! (3 bids for the WCC!) Virginia Tech, finally off the… Read more »
I don’t know if you heard, but the UConn men recently won a little something we call March Madness. Or the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship if you have no interest in fun. While the title game itself has been generally regarded as a bust—I choose to characterize it as a master class on defense—it is generally agreed that this year… Read more »
Brilliant video of the VCU “riot” after the Butler loss. (Warning: profanity!) Doesn’t look like much of a riot, really — more like idiotic, and somewhat dangerous, but mostly non-destructive, drunken revelry — but maybe that’s the soundtrack talking. Anyway, great video, courtesy of Mondial Creative Labs on Vimeo.
With basketball over, football far away, and Becky heading into her third trimester, I’ve decided to take a break from Twitter. This eliminates, at least for the moment, the need for an extra or double-wide blog sidebar showing my latest tweets. So we’re back to the old 835-pixel-wide layout. Low-res and mobile users, rejoice! (Apropos of which, if this page… Read more »
Pat McGriff of Boone, Iowa, a secretary at Iowa State University who has been entering my free NCAA Pools since she found them over the Internet in 2009, won the 16th annual Living Room Times men’s pool, riding her unlikely pick of a UConn national title to an surprising pool victory. She rallied from 123rd place at the end of… Read more »
In addition to the general March Madness live-tweet window in the right sidebar, all of my tweets tonight — and all tweets by anyone on the TMM Folks list, the #TMMhoosiers list, and various hand-selected individuals, plus all tweets tagged #midswin or #AOUEOU — will appear below. (Note: CoverItLive’s tweet import is wonky. Most tweets will appear almost instantaneously, but… Read more »
It probably comes as little consolation on the night that her father’s team was knocked out of contention for its third straight national championship, but Jenna (Auriemma) Stigliano, daughter of Geno and wife of my high-school classmate Todd, clinched the free, moneyless 14th annual Living Room Times NCAA Women’s Pool when Texas A&M upset Stanford in tonight’s first semifinal. She… Read more »
When I put a Butler masthead (photo from 2007) on top of this blog before the start of the tournament, it was intended as a generic basketball thing, not a Butler-specific reference. I never, ever could have imagined the Bulldogs would be back in the national title game (!!!). Likewise, when Dane told me his wacky prediction of Butler winning… Read more »