Sure, it’s not quite the same as the first weekend. But the 2nd weekend of the tournament is where even more drama happens, in many respects – can Davidson actually pull a Mason? Which #1 seed will bite the dust in a most unsavory fashion? And when will it get warm enough for girls to wear skirts and flipflops? (Not that we’re watching, honey.) For these reasons and more, we humbly log in to our MMOD account and bring you our live thoughts as the games progress.
7:10: Let’s get this started. The first pair of games: (7) West Virginia vs. (3) Xavier in the West, and (1) UNC vs. (4) Washington St. in the East. The West game tips off now, with the East game starting in about 20 minutes.
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So, we get back in the saddle for real tonight by doing what we wanted to do all last weekend – liveblogging the games. We’ll be posing all night, and hope you’ll join us. In the meantime, we’re enjoying Bobby Knight’s Pepto-tastic v-neck on, of all things, Baseball Tonight. Dear tWWL: corporate synergy is annoying, but nonsensical corporate synergy is amusing. Keep it coming.
Anyway – for your amusement, belittlement, scorn, and gambling, we present our just-as-informed-as-yours-but-we’ll-call-them-expert-because-we’re-writing-this-damn-post predictions for tonight’s games:
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| It’s just a little hobby, we’ve only dabbled … but Aunt Lou says hello. |
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| Sure, it’s easy to write about the NCAA tournament games … but what about the NIT and the CBI, or as we like to call them, “The Motor City Bowls of Basketball”? Where else are you going to get the hard hitting news you need on these trifflin’ tournaments? That’s right – we’re focusing our comeback post on these tournaments. Ballin’. |
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| Hooray mediocre post-season play! |
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THE GAME EVERYONE NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT
Same Bad Time, Same Bad Channel
Ohio State 74, Dayton 63 (West)
We have to admit – Ohio basketball fans, we’re impressed. According to reports, Value City Arena in Columbus (and, really, is there any better city to host Value City Arena than Columbus?) was filled to capacity last night. Pretty damn good for a surprisingly good NIT Quarterfinal matchup between two schools from Central Ohio.
But that last sentence holds the key to the NIT – we’re pretty sure that we’re the only person we know who watched a nanosecond of this game. (And, in the interest of full disclosure, we have family in Central Ohio.) In the interest of saving on team travel costs and generating ticket interest, the lower tier post-season tournaments have no choice but to encourage regional matchups (though this one, of course, wasn’t planned.) But regional matchups have regional appeal, and regional appeal means no big advertising dollars, so it should surprise no one that the NIT had to be taken over by the NCAA to remain financially stable.
Meanwhile, a fun storyline that has been picked up already – with tOSU and Florida on opposite sides of the NIT Final Four (with tOSU playing Ole Miss – thanks for beating VPI, Rebs – and UF playing UMass), we could be treated to a rematch of last year’s championship game. I’ll be just like last year! Noah! Oden! Horford! Conley! Brewer! It’s the NCAA championship game on CBS The Deuce!
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