NCAA Tournament Saturday Open Thread
Saturday, March 22, 2008
West Virginia vs. Duke (2:10pm)- Craig Bolerjack and Bob Wenzel
Kansas State vs. Wisconsin (4:20pm)- Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner
Purdue vs. Xavier (4:40pm)- Craig Bolerjack and Bob Wenzel
Notre Dame vs. Washington State (6:40pm)- Gus Johnson and Len Elmore
Marquette vs. Stanford (6:45pm)- Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas
Kansas vs. UNLV (6:50)- Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner
Michigan State vs. Pitt (9:10pm)- Gus Johnson and Len Elmore
UCLA vs. Texas A&M (9:15pm)- Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas
Hi, folks. S2N here, and I'll be helping AA chronicle the announcer atrocities (and monitor upsets) for the day with you (that is, unless I am beckoned to the sports bar.)
How's your bracket doing today? In today's group of 2nd rounders, I only missed by thinking Winthrop would upset Wazzu, but I'm totally screwed everywhere else. As usual, leave the good stuff in the comments and I'll update the post as long as I can.
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Watching pre-game: the Lopez twins sound awful when they talk at the same time. It's double the stereotypical dumb jock voice (and those boys are smart.)
Please tell me someone is watching CBS pre-game. This McAlarney piece has got to be the worst television ever. I live in Staten Island, NY, so i know all about McAlarney and his history of basketball. He is a great player, but a complete moron. He was busted for Marijuana at ND and was stupid enough to be caught with it. How is that worthy of a piece on CBS? Basically that whole thing has how Mike Brey was a good coach helping a stupid kid get out of trouble. - Marc
Yup, saw that. Cringed, but I've seen much, much worse in terms of sap pieces. The one done on J.P Prince was good, though.
Time for WVU/Duke....god, I hate Bolerjack and Wenzel, but it'll be good for some material.
"The Blue Devils are not shooting the basketball from three point range." - Bob Wenzel (via SSReporters, who notes that there was probably supposed to be a "shooting well" in there.)
"Number 1 in this uniquely American event." - Wenzel. Not sure what that was in reference to. This is going to be a long couple of hours.
"The one-and-done format in the tournament brings out plenty of aggression!" - Wenzel, after a foul on Wellington Smith for an illegal screen on Greg Paulus.
Watching Paulus throw his arms in the air to get the crowd into it is inherently hilarious. This is why he's uniquely hateable -- he's the Doofy White Dude writ large.
"Zoubek does not have a wide enough stance to avoid those kinds of turnovers." - Wenzel, getting his Larry Craig references on.
Scheyer's flopping already too. Jesus, this is bad.
"That's a real foul." - Wenzel. Hmmm....does that imply the others aren't?
"I think Smalligan's name should be Talligan." - Glenn Consor, on the Westwood One radio call (via Rick James Bible Owner)
Dude.
"Mr. Greenlight!" - Wenzel, after some Dukie I've never heard of hits a shot.
I hope that this game is good down the stretch so that I can hear Bolerjack and Wenzel tryout to be the next WWE announcers again. Watch out Jerry "The King" Lawlor, Bob Wenzel is coming for you! - Brandon
"There musta been some instruction by that guy (Coach K) yesterday. Even with a 104-degree fever, he's still getting after 'em!" - Wenzel
OW. MY BRAIN.
"Four white jerseys, still has the strength to get it up." - Wenzel (via SSReporters)
"Alexander should get 5 points for that effort." - Wenzel (via JX)
I now have a vein throbbing in my forehead.
"You wanna talk about good defense? There's 35 seconds of it!" - Wenzel
In case you didn't know, Duke is playing well on the defensive side of the ball.
That was a sick three by Ruoff, and all silly Raftery-and-Gus-like exclamations by Bolerwenzel are excusable.
"Ruoff, you are sitting on the bench right now because that's how far you were from the basket when you hit that free throw!" - Wenzel
Except for that one.
Joe Alexander to Singler and Scheyer on consecutive plays: "Get that weak shit outta here."
"They (Duke) need some intestinal fortitude right now" - Wenzel (Thanks, Anon!)
"Backdoor, taking a page from Luke Ford and Belmont!" - Wenzel, who cannot conceive that Huggins could have a backdoor play in his hip pocket well before Belmont. Bolerjack has been fairly inoffensive save his love of the word "tenacious," but Wenzel....whew.
"If you're in the lead, you can wait until later. If you're behind, you have to come sooner." - Wenzel, talking about when to bring a player with four fouls back in. Oh, and that's what she said.
"0-for-13 in threes this half, see where that one hit? Front of the rim. What does that tell you?" - Wenzel
"Tired legs." - Bolerwenzel
Synchronicity!
Wenzel was blathering about Duke stepping it up on D while WVU executed a wide open backdoor lay-in.
"Up and in, Thoroughman!" - Bolerjack
"He's gonna get votes for Governor!" - Wenzel
Very good possession, two offensive boards by Thoroughman (sp?) for WVU.
"Wave goodbye to the ball, Alex!" - Wenzel, describing Ruoff's follow-through (hat tip to Anon)
"Nobody wants to go home in the NCAA tournament!" - Wenzel (via spartandan, that's the second or third time Wenzel's said this)
"Ball is popped out of there like a cork" - Bolerjack, and didn't he say that two days ago as well? (via Anon)
"Duke is a team with great tradition and great pride, don't be surprised to see a rush here at the end" -Wenzel (Via another Anon, who considers the fact that WVU might have pride too.)
"Bob Huggins, coaching in his hometown of West Virginia..." - Wenzel. Now, West Virginia may be rural, but at least call it the state that it is, Bob...
DUCK FUKE! Your tears taste like candy, Blue Devils.
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OK, who's next? Harlan and Bonner on K-State/Wisky.
"You want to play at a fast pace, but you don't want to hurry." - Bonner
"You sound like John Wooden." - Harlan
"I wish I did." - Bonner (via spartandan)
"Here's Beasley with the interception" - Harlan (via Smitty Lite, who's wondering if Beasley's now playing cornerback for Ron Prince)
"Count it for two!" - Harlan, despite it not going in -- which Bonner called him out on. (via spartandan)
"That's the first time we've seen some discomforture." Bonner, making up words. (spartandan tells us it is a word, spelled "discomfiture.")
"At the line is Travon Hughes, a sophomore from The Queens, New York" - Harlan (via Anon)
Harlan, taking a page right from Miss Teen South Carolina:
"Efficiency is the name of the Boilermakers!" - Wenzel (via spartandan)
"Derrick Brown is now shooting 79% during three games in his NCAA career. Two last year, and then the... the second this year" - Wenzel. Ow, ow, ow.
"Winner of this game (Purdue-Xavier) takes on the Duke Blue...oops, Duke wishes it was taking on the winner of the game." - Greg Gumbel, botching the transfer slightly.
"Jason Love should give some Love to Drew Lavender for that pass." - Bolerjack (via Anon)
"And, you can see, the breakfast of champions is popcorn." -Wenzel, as the camera shows Huggins eating popcorn (via another Anon)
Bolerwenzel is a freaking gold mine.
"Beep beep, he's gone" -Wenzel
"Beep Beep! The Road Runner!" -Bolerjack (via Anon)
Oh god, the Bolerwenzel combo just stole Steve Lavin's Roadrunner joke. - spartandan
You know you suck when you're recycling Lavinburger bits.
I'm taking a bit of a break, folks -- gotta cook food at some point. Games will still be on, so keep leaving the announcer stupid in the comments.
OK, I'm done -- if I stare at the quote screen any longer, I'll go bonkers. Enjoy the rest of today's action -- and I hope someone can find video of Stanford coach Trent Johnson getting the heave-ho; I was watching what seemed like a final minute that lasted 30 in Purdue-Xavier.
247 Comments:
Yeah, that McAlarney piece was terrible...
By the way, what are the chances i get any game in HD today? 3%? 2%?
It's seriously ridiculous that CBS doesn't broadcast every single one of these games in HD...
"The Blue Devils are not shooting the basketball from three point range" - Bob Wenzel
Uh.....yes they have, they've shot three pointers a lot of times. Did you mean to say they're not shooting WELL from three point range?
11:07 in the morning here in North Seattle and I'm greeted by Bolerwenzel.
That McAlarney piece was awful. They acted like a possession charge was such a big deal, that kid's mom is clueless.
Notice they're not using the calls from Tim Brando in their Pontiac Game Changing Performance clips, but they used Bolerjack's.
What was that American comment for Bob?
Wenzel, we know coach K is sick....but 104 degree temperature is just a friggin fever.....stop mentioning it.
Holy crap i'm getting this game in HD... I'm amazed...
Smitty, you might be surprised, but for the first time CBS is broadcasting EVERY game in the tournament is in HD. Don't believe me? Just go to March Madness On Demand, where each game is shown in the 16:9, HD format.
Mike Patrick is in his room watching the game:
"Paulus for three!!!! HOLY COW!!!! THAT'S WHY HE IS ONE OF THE BEST SHOOTERS IN THE COUNTRY!!!"
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Who is Heraldson Bolerjack?
Anon-
Yeah, the quality on MMOD isn't all that bad, but my connection at work the last two days sucked.
When you have a 61in tv in your living room, you don't really want to stare at a 15in computer screen. Just glad this duke game is in HD so far...
That may or may not have been a flop...but that's a wicked screen.
Paulus is such a flopper. That was b.s.
Have i mentioned yet that i hate Duke?
I will always remember watching them lost to VCU last year as i was at a bar in Vegas working some MILF i later banged...
Mike Patrick probably has his Duke boner rock solid after that three.
Clemson is jealous of Duke's free throw shooting.
Huggins gets a technical.
Haha. Well, I just got a brand new 32" Samsung HDTV myself yesterday, and had the HD hooked up. All I have to say... going from regular CBS to HDCBS watching this game, I almost freaked. The crystal clearness of the picture is just so amazing D:
As far as "Dook" goes, I can't stand them for the most part because of Paulus. He's such a baby, for real. WVU isn't looking good so far either.
Are the refs stopping play intentionally so we can watch Duke for as long as possible?
so, why don't the officials go ahead and change the black stripes on their shirts to Duke Blue and call it a day?
wait, on second though, they're making a collection of terrible calls against both teams. When will officials figure out that people tune into basketball to watch the GAME, not the guys in the stripes with the whistles?
GOD!
"Duke likes to get the game up into the high 80s" - Wenzel
10 stoppages a minute will make that impossible.
Perks of watching this game in West Virginia;
I don't have to listen to the CBS broadcast.
I've got the game on with the Mountaineer Sports Network (and the great Tony Caridi) on my radio.
And, until Gus Johnson calls a Mountaineer game in this tournament that's how i'm gonna watch EVERY Mountaineer game.
"That's a real foul" - Wenzel
As opposed to these fake fouls these players have made. Like the invisible take down.
Sheyer just pulled a Sam Cassell special...
"Great hands by Paulus." - Bolerjack
Paulus then lost the dribble out of bounds 3 seconds later.
I thought I could get a reprieve from stupidity on Westwood One radio:
"I think Smalligan's name should be Talligan." Color Commentator Glenn Consort(?)
I was wrong.
That was 100% ball...
I did enjoy how it knocked of Singler's face though...
Joe Mazzulla will knock Greg Paulus the F out!
and, i'd pay good money to see it!
its so obvious with the exception of duke fans DC I'd very pro-mountaineer, duke is so annoying I respect their talent and coach K but god theyre so easy to root against.
I can't watch this game with the sound up. Wenzel is gonna have me breaking shit real quick.
@ RJBO
Mark Champion and Glenn Consor are there for Westwood One.
Gansta D, do you have like another TV and a porn video? Then just turn the sound up on the porn video very loud and you're fine.
Fuck, now I have to jerk it.
Bigger Duke flopper (all time)? Paulus or Hurley
Schyer might be coming up as a darkhorse though.
I can't root for either team: I can't stand Duke, West Virginia fans can't stand the Wolverines (for obvious reasons).
Is anyone else not impressed when someone shoots better from outside the arc than inside?
To me it screams: The only thing i'm good at as is standing here and waiting for the ball...
"Alexander picks it up between his legs" - Bolerjack
Eww....
ah! we have our first appearance of john flowers' magical headband!!
i love that guy (and his headband)
Bolerjack is driving me nuts with saying "tenacious" all the time.
Thanks, ss. I knew Champion was on the call (he usually does Pistons radio broadcasts these days).
C. Hustle I think listening to porn while watching Duke would make me hate porn as much as I hate Duke.
OK, not really. But it'd be little weird.
Bolerjack loves his ten-dollar words, and tenacious is a doozy.
reading these comments reminds me all over again exactly why I have the sound turned down and the mountaineer sports network radio broadcast turned up.
Craig Bolerjack wants to remind you that Duke's defense is playing well.
Ya know if I didn't hate dook already, i'd hate them today for teh same reason i hate soccer.
BE A MAN!
James, if you hate soccer, hate football for flopping QB's, punters, kickers, and WR's (for pass interference calls).
Hate basketball for said reasons, take Paulus here for example.
Anyone else bored with this game already?
I got here late, but there is one simple answer to the question of why CBS did a feature story on Kyle McAlarney:
He's from New York. Period.
It's "easier" for them to do a story on him than travel to, say, Iowa or Mississippi and do a feature on somebody who, you know, DESERVED it.
I hope that this game is good down the stretch so that I can hear Bolerjack and Wenzel tryout to be the next WWE announcers again. Watch out Jerry "The King" Lawlor, Bob Wenzel is coming for you!
ssreporters -- just counting the blatant pro-Duke calls, and I'm at five right now.
James: actually, most soccer teams aren't that bad when it comes to flopping. If you watch the Premier League (we get broadcasts on FSN occasionally, for reasons unknown), you won't see any of that crap. Even in the World Cup, there were only two teams that I saw doing it blatantly (Italy and Portugal).
SS-
Yes, this game is boring me to death. Wish there was another one...
It's the faked injuries in soccer that kill me.
I did love Paulus flopping for the near elbow earlier and then not getting the call. Then he got up and ran down the floor and got a steal. Oh but he was really hurt, he's just gutsy.
If he played for anybody other than dook, no one would respect him. Instead of the media and the pukie nation loving him and squeezing him, and calling him george.
ssreporters; Anyone else bored with this game already?
Fuck no!
But, again, i'm not listening to the CBS broadcast. Watching, yes. Listening to, no.
Oh, and i'm a West Virginia fan. So, that makes a difference too.
Duke is playing great defense you know.
"Off the rim she comes/cums" - Bolerjack
Duke has more patches on their uniforms than the average NASCAR driver or soccer player.
well, it's easy to play good defense when you have to practically rape a guy to get a foul called on you.
well, that, and Ed Hightower (officiating this game today) and Bob Huggins HATE each other apparently (stems back to the WVU/Georgetown game in Morgantown earlier this year when the refs blew the game ending goaltending call on Patrick Ewing Jr)
@ James, in some cases it's true, but soccer players wearing cleats coming at your legs is tough...remember they don't have protective gear.
J.J.
find a picture of Boise State from last nights Louisville/Boise St game (uniwatch blog has one on the main page right now, actually...THAT'S a ridiculous amount of patches.
Hightower's actually a pretty good ref - Been watching him in the Big Ten for years..
That's just what my diet needed burger king, fried potatoes with cheese....you assholes...
Anyways....Kansas State will beat Wisconsin, book it.
"Alexander should get 5 points for that effort." - Bob Wenzel
"Four white jerseys, still has the strength to get it up." - Wenzel
Man. I do know one thing. At least they sound SEMI-Excited, unlike a specific announcing crew yesterday. You know who you are. Also, I'd rather be listening to these guys than the morons at FOX during the BCS Bowl Games D:
"Alexander should get 5 points for that effort." - Bob Wenzel
Somewhere, Dan Cortez and Morris Chesnutt are nodding their heads in agreement.
jx: I've seen the replay of the Georgetown/WV ending a zillion times, and I can't tell whether it was on the way down or not. No ref will *ever* call it under those circumstances if they aren't dead sure, and if I can't be sure after a dozen slo-mo viewings, the ref won't be after one live view.
Smitty: Hightower's been one of the better refs for a while (at least in calling things consistently throughout the game and on both sides), but I've noticed he has a tendency to call games way too tight (an example being the first half of the Wisconsin-MSU Big Ten tourney game, in which breathing in the general direction of the player with the ball was a foul). Apparently not today.
spartanDan said...
jx: I've seen the replay of the Georgetown/WV ending a zillion times, and I can't tell whether it was on the way down or not. No ref will *ever* call it under those circumstances if they aren't dead sure, and if I can't be sure after a dozen slo-mo viewings, the ref won't be after one live view.
Well, I do admit to being a blatant homer for WVU...so...
That was painful to watch...luckily Cabbage Patch Greg and company will brighten the day.
Is it just me, or is there any reason why it seems Duke always gets a national TV game in the tournament every year?
That was boring...
Lunchtime, back later.
Gonna have to guess that Duke gets national coverage on days like today because there is no other game on...
Because CBS will lose BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS if they give the nationally-televised game to anyone else.
Heaven forbid a Duke fan is inconvenienced for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES.
And yes, they always get the Thursday primetime/Saturday national spots. Look it up
Is Notre Dame the 6th #1 seed (behind the 4 actual #1s & Duke)? Mike Brey & Luke Harangody?
Notre Dame is a media darling maybe? =P They can be whatever seed they want and people will pay them some attention. Look at their football team if you want further proof of that.
The irony is that the dildos who watch Duke and Notre Dame because they want them to lose so badly are the reason why they're always on TV. And they don't get it. Do like me. I'm sick of seeing Duke all the time, so I switched to NASCAR when the race began (and I really hate NASCAR)
"Somebody's season ends tonight" - Bolerjack
Hmmmm......
What the hell. Trying to put this game on ice early? We were 19+ minutes into the game, Duke would have gone up by 8 if they made the lay-up and that's putting the game on ice early? Jeez.
Wenzel: What is the "antee-dote" for West Virginia to get back into this game?
Duke is playing very good defense.
AIRBALL!
Wenzel is a Bill Raftery wannabe with his yelling and grunting.
Tie game!
Crap.....they tied it.
That tenacious defense from Duke seems to have gone away.
Oh man, this game has gotten so much better. Two great 3's by West Virginia, including the last one that almost left the kid on his own bench, haha. Butler is a good spark for his team, that's for sure.
Mike Patrick has that gun ready.
"Nobody wants to go home" - Wenzel
Captain Obvious.
Bolerjack - "Oh, sweet. Down she goes."
"Ruoff, you are sitting on the bench right now because that's how far you were from the basket when you hit it!"
Wenzel called that three a "free throw"... you missed that...
TENACIOUS DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry anon...fixing. I don't have the luxury of TiVo or any DV-R type stuff here.
This game may already be over....
"Thats a great horse shot."
"question is did he call it?"
Wenzel is dying for Duke to win.
Yup. This is a Hightower game. Three guys with four fouls, 11 minutes to go.
"Tradition comes into play here." -Wenzel
How?
spartandan - not being a Big Televen person, this Hightower experience is new to me. Needless to say, I don't like it much.
Comment 100!!
I know that was pointless, but.....
But 102nd is fine...
Come on Duke, you're in the elite 8 in by bracket.
"They need some intensinal (?) fortitude right now" -Wenzel, talking about Duke
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
Haha, my verification code was tlgfag.
Anon, it's intestinal fortitude, in that case, he's right....
Henderson may have gotten away with a walk.
I don't care if this messes up my bracket, really. I'm rooting for WVU here. Not because I hate Duke, because really.. I don't hate them as much as a Notre Dame team, but I do like the way WVU is battling.
wenzel loves him some mizzoula
Bolerjack really isn't bad at all... he just has the misfortune of being paired with Wenzel...
I've missed a bit of the game. How many times has Wenzel referred to someone as being "athletic"?
I'm rooting for WVU not because I hate Duke (I don't, at least not as much as I hate North Carolina - blame Sean May's "elbow, elbow, hey where'd those two guys guarding me go, DUNK!" move for that), but because I picked Arizona to upset Duke.
Wenzel is giggling in his admiration for Mizzoula...
Good god Duke has gone cold...
"Craig it's getting loud in here." - Wenzel
Good analysis.
How many more times is Wenzel gonna mention that Mizzoula has eight boards?
We're gonna see some heart right here from the guys in white jerseys... we're gonna see some pressure D..." -Wenzel
And in the middle of his monologue, WVa gets an easy bucket.
"postman to postman backdoor"- wenzel
Postman to Postman back door! - Wenzel.
Does the post office have a don't ask/don't tell policy?
That's the game.
"Wave goodbye to the ball, Alex!" -Wenzel, describing Ruoff's follow-through
Wenzel: "Thouroghman! He's going to get votes for governor!"
"Nobody wants to go home in the NCAA tournament!" -Wenzel
Thanks a bunch, Captain Obvious.
I will say, this game has gotten a lot more interesting now that WVU is close to knocking them off...
"he's gonna get votes for governor!" Wenzel
"He can get votes for governor!" -Wenzel, describing Mazzula after hitting a shot
"Nobody wants to go home in the NCAA Tournament" -Wenzel, once again stating the obvious
62-51.
Dicky V and Mike are crying.
"He's going to get votes for governor" - Wenzel ... is that the district that previously went for Rodriguez?
Come on WVU. Bust my bracket even further, but win one for the gipper! (Or something)
Tenacious D, again by the way.
ahhh you all beat me...
If they talk about Mizzoula's stats one more time i may have to off myself...
dukies looking sad
Wenzel talking over Bolerjack TRYING to do the play by play again
How many more times are they going to mention Henderson's GW basket?
"Ball is popped out of there like a cork" -Bolerjack, and didn't he say that two days ago as well?
"Duke is a team with great tradition and great pride, don't be surprised to see a rush here at the end"
-Wenzel, with Duke down 12 with 2:30 left. He's trying to convince himself that Duke can still win this...
And I assume the WVa players have no pride whatsoever.
"Both coaches skillful in negotiating the foul situation of their teams"
-Wenzel, after subsituting for a player who fouled out.
Jackass
Mazzula's got a decent shot at a triple double... OFF THE BENCH
I have always hated Duke. I ignored my heart and had them in my Final Four. They've screwed me over. I hate them even more.
I have this picked... and couldn't be prouder of myself.
Yay arrogance.
Doesnt CBS usually switch away from double-digit-lead games with under two minutes to go so we can the next game starting (KSU-Wisky)?
Mal: you also ignored their complete lack of an inside game. Bad move. My only mistake was in who would beat them, not when.
FIRST IMAGE OF DUKE TEARS
DUKE CRYING ALERT
According to a Wisconsin fan who is watching KSU/Wisconsin:
"The Badgers open up in man to man"
He points out that Bo Ryan has never played a zone in his entire tenure at Wisconsin.
Not sure if it was Harlan or Bonner, however.
when scheyer, pawlus, and chris collins get together, who polishes whos knob first?
I don't know about that foul...
Game!
"Every team ends it's season with a loss except the NCAA champion, or the NIT champions" - Wenzel
Wow, no love for the CBI... or UT-Pan American's 4 game winning streak to end a 18-13 Indy season?
Hell yeah! Onto the Beasley show...
Anon @ 4:33: Or teams who win their season-ending game in the Ivy league? Or teams who don't qualify for their conference tourneys but win their finale?
Got KState-Wisc here. Probably true everywhere for the next 1/2 hour or so until the Xavier-Purdue game starts.
So, I wonder how many tears Mike Patrick has shed right about now.
almost felt sorry for the duke guys they looked so sad. almost...
Harlan is solid, but Bonner sounds like he'll be good for a few quotes.
Nothing of note yet...
I get the feeling that they're playing the same five commercials in a constant loop...
I, I don't believe it. This game is in HD too?! CBS is getting their sh*t together!
smitty - they're gonna fuck the HD up come football season.
Holy hell, Stiemsma damn near ripped the basket down.
s2n- Ha ha ha, you're so right...
I'm not convinved they won't fuck up the HD before this game is over...
spartandan - I don't care what his first name is, his new name is Cleveland Stiemsma.
Over/Under them saying Beasley's name.
He's a beast though
"You want to play at a fast pace, but you don't want to hurry."
"You sound like John Wooden."
"I wish I did." - Bonner, Harlan, and Bonner again.
"And in most cases, Wisconsin will work hard on defense, no quick shots for the Badgers" -Bonner, when Wisconsin is on offense, forgetting that Wisconsin does not play defense against themselves
Anon @ 4:47: Think he said Wisconsin will make you work hard on defense, not the other way around. Or maybe my brain just assumed that because the other way didn't make any sense.
Yeah you might be right.
"Here's Beasley with the interception" - K. Harlan
I knew Beasley was a stud and all, but i guess i didn't realize he played for the K-State football team as well...
Good game here so far.
Oh no. Oh crap! I think i'm gonna get switched to the Purdue/Xavier game in a few minutes...
These guys aren't giving us much material.
No worries though, Bolerjack and Wenzel will be back in about 15 minutes...
that sucks... I love MMOD...
"Count it for two!" - Harlan
Just one problem - the ball didn't go in. (Bonner called him on it a few seconds later.)
Harlan: "Count it for two". Relax a bit, Kevin. The ball didn't even go in the basket.
"Count it for 2." - Kevin Harlan
It never went in Harlan.
"thats the first time we've seen some discomforture"
-bonner
Damn it!
Just lost the KSU-Wisky game for Purdue-Xavier...
"Wisconsin is plus 18 points from above the arc." - Harlan
They going to take points away Kevin? And I think it is better said "beyond the arc."
discomforture?
Same here. =[ Purdon't and Xavier time. :/ I wanted to see KState and wtf... they just switched back to the KState game for me and put it in SD, rofl. Man.. there goes my love for CBS.
"Discomfiture" is a real word. An unusual one, to be sure, but a real one. Means about what it sounds like it means.
"At the line is Travon Hughes, a sophomore from The Queens, New York" -Harlan
"The Queens"?
Wenzel is killing me. The "He's gonna get votes for Governor!" line had me rolling on the floor.
"Efficiency is the name of the Boilermakers!" - Wenzel
Still waiting for Harlan to bust out his "With no regard for human life!" line (remember it all too well from his days as the T-Wolves' announcer with KG).
Yeah, i have the KSU-Wisky game on my standard-def CBS channel...
"A 9-0 run for Purdue!" (The score is 9-0.)
You think so, Sherlock? (Not sure if this was Wenzel or Bolerjack.)
"Derrick Brown is now shoting 79% during three games in his NCAA career. Two last year, and then the... the second this year"
-Wenzel
That was Bolerjack spartandan.
"How about this matchup, quick on quick out front" -Wenzel
"Lavender, pushes it up - short" -Bolerjack (that's what she said!)
Not often you see a goaltend-and-foul, but Xavier just did it.
"How about this elevation!" -Wenzel, describing the Xavier player who goaltended a layup and fouled the shooter on the same play
A fine ten seconds for Bolerjack:
"Josh Duncan throws down his second free throw"
"That tough, on your belt-buckle defense"
"And, you can see, the breakfast of champions is popcorn" -Wenzel, as the camera shows Huggins eating popcorn... lame.
As Huggins walks in to the arena with a bag of popcorn - Wenzel: "the breakfast of champions is...popcorn!" Oh, and if you haven't heard today, Mizzula almost had a triple-double coming off the bench.
And I should mention that it's 5:21 PM...
@S2N - nice use of The Miss Teen South Carolina clip!
"Jason Love should give some Love to Drew Lavender for that pass"
-Bolerjack, he just can't resist...
"Good, good, good, good, good" -Wenzel
Guys, I can't keep up with those of you watching Purdue-Xavier...yikes!
Wisconsin is slowly pulling away.
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Well said anon, but eteshwayw is way better.
"another between the legs play. highly unusual". - Wenzel.
"Beep beep, he's gone" -Wenzel
"Beep Beep! The Road Runner!" -Bolerjack
Oh god, the Bolerwenzel combo just stole Steve Lavin's Roadrunner joke.
I think it's safe to say Wenzeljack is the worst announcing crew ever to do a major tournament.
Also the most hilarious.
Please tell me someone is watching CBS pre-game. This McAlarney piece has got to be the worst television ever. I live in Staten Island, NY, so i know all about McAlarney and his history of basketball. He is a great player, but a complete moron. He was busted for Marijuana at ND and was stupid enough to be caught with it. How is that worthy of a piece on CBS? Basically that whole thing has how Mike Brey was a good coach helping a stupid kid get out of trouble.