I’ve been riding the Virginia bandwagon hard since they lost to UMBC and thus am incapable of seeing these plays with any sense of objectivity, but I did want to add one thing: right before Jerome lost the ball and picked it back up, Brown reaches out and fouls Jerome once. It’s a touch foul, but a foul (it also helps…

Yeah, and I’m obviously not an NBA scout and I have no idea what I’m talking about. I guess I just thought that for a guy who came into the season as the #1 player in his class, he sure was exposed as having big holes in his game. I’d take players like Coby White over him, no question.

I, for one, thought RJ Barrett was staggeringly bad this whole year. He shot the ball on 33% of the team’s possessions and Alex O’Connell had a better offensive rating, according to KenPom. He shot a hair under 31% from range, and 66% from the stripe.

I’d somehow never considered until right now that Stephen A. Smith probably lives at least part time in Connecticut. I’m picturing him walking onto the set of Gilmore Girls, spitting fire takes about how Lorelei and Luke will just never work. 

Don’t leave us hanging! 

That close out on the third three was really something 

Also, considering you’re supposed to be the Guy Who Writes About College Hoops, why even hate on the Ohio Valley at all after today’s showing? Very nearly had two first round wins. I have no affiliation with it whatsoever, but it ain’t a bad conference. 

That is incredible.

My high school ran this play a bunch. Every now and then it actually worked. 

It is really funny when Deadspin gets around to writing about college basketball games, seemingly at random. They do a lot of things well... wouldn’t consider that one of them. 

Court docs say that the younger daughter’s falsified application to USC listed her as the co-captain of a Japanese national soccer team.

The question remains if it’s satire or not, don’t you think? If so, it’s very subtle satire, which doesn’t really work. I would still respect it, though, just getting dunked on yourself and never offering up the defense that you are, in fact, just fucking with people.

This is just me and my brain is probably the exact opposite of a world class athlete’s, but if I were Wade or someone about to retire the last thing in the world I would want would be nabbing the 8-seed to get swept in the first round

Yeah, I’m glad you said this. Like, the rule sucks. The Jays are doing what they, under the current rules, absolutely should do. And Jays fans will miss him for like two weeks to a month this year and then enjoy him for 7 or 8 or however many more years it is under the CBA. And I’m not trying to downplay the fact that…

Well I’m glad to see the coach doesn’t believe in white men making a lot of money off the backs of an unpaid labor force made up of black people 

Yeah unfortunately I’m actually an Indians fan and this is exactly what I was referring to. As RogerMurdock echoed up above, by the time we got to Game 7 I just remember thinking, at least this will all be over tomorrow, no matter what happens. (Of course we were going to lose, though, in the most painful way possible)…

The thing that has always pissed me off about Manfred and his stupid fucking game speed ideas is that he and MLB appear completely unwilling to address something that actually bothers players: the length of time spent standing around in between innings, after regular warm-ups have taken place during playoff games. 

The pinnie guy has a story he’ll tell for the rest of his life

Never claimed to be a hockey fan, re-read the above. I’m the ultimate bandwagon fan. But yes, that’s embarrassing, I agree.

lol, see you there. Meet near the shitters?