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THE GAME EVERYONE TALKED ABOUT (SORT OF)
A ‘W’ is a ‘W’, I Guess
#3 UCLA 81, California 80
UCLA has started to make a living out of standing on 17 and hoping their dealer busts. Which is, of course, nice work if you can get, and if you can avoid falling behind on your account and living in a piss-filled backalley with rats, meth-addicts, and CSI: extras. It helps when the casino has stacked the deck in your favor.
In case you didn’t see one of the umpteen replays over the weekend, it went down like this: Cal inbounds the ball with a 80-79 lead with 20 seconds to go. Ryan Anderson receives the pass. Josh Shipp knocks the ball out of his hands, and knocks Anderson to the ground. No foul called. Ball given to UCLA despite last touching Shipp. On the inbounds, Shipp hits a circus shot (admittedly impressive) from behind the hoop to put the Bruins ahead. Too bad that’s illegal. But the refs don’t call it, and UCLA escapes, again, thanks to o-fishy-aiding.
Of course, as our father might say, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. And for truthiness-style analysis of the waning minutes of that game, we turn to the only source we think we can trust: a pissed-off, emo-fueled Ukklah fan:
That there video, by the way, contains all the Duke-UNC content you’ll find in this post. We summarized our feelings about that game pretty well here.
TWO ULTIMATELY MEANINGLESS WINS WE ENJOYED ANYWAY
Cue up Yakity Sax, Brian
#11 Georgetown 55, #12 Louisville
If the “lol fundamentals woot!!!1!!” crowd loves anything as much as the Princeton offense, it’s Rick Pitino, so I’m sure they were all pleased by the game in D.C. this weekend. Louisville? 56% from the charity stripe. GU? 17 turnovers, most of the “what the fuck were you thinking???” variety. We said judgment should be reserved on either team until after this game, and after watching all of it we can say with confidence that while both of these teams are good, neither is great by any stretch. Well-coached? Sure. Talented? In part. Fatally flawed? Oh, fuck yes.
That said … hey, Big East regular season championship! Suck that, Syracuse.
Virginia is for Upsets
William & Mary 56, Virginia Commonwealth 54
Hey, nice to see little brother get a win! Good on ya, little man! [rubs Williamsburg's head while entire city squirms and bitches about how they were here first] They hate it when we do that.
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