Sweet Sixteen Thursday Open Thread
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Xavier vs. West Virginia (Phoenix, 7:10pm)- Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery
North Carolina vs. Washington St. (Charlotte, 7:27pm)- Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas
UCLA vs. Western Kentucky (Phoenix, 9:40pm)- Verne Lundquist and Raftery
Tennessee vs. Louisville (Charlotte, 9:57pm)- Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas
The fun gets underway around 7pm tonight. See you then! Oh and that quarterback is WSU's Drew Bledsoe getting nailed if you were wondering.
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Real men wear pink....
It almost matches the color of his face doesn't it? Okay so it was for Breast Cancer....I'll stop making fun now. And Digger really needs to stop touching Knight. It's getting kind of creepy.
Oooh the Foo Fighters on the intro....ROCK!
Hahahahaha what is going on with CBS? Dick Enberg and Bilas just had no idea they were on. I'm pretty sure they went to the wrong game there. Too funny....video in a minute or two.
"He's a nooge out there."- Bill Raftery
Anyone know what a nooge is?
"No easy looks tonight, or today excuse me."- Bill Raftery
Either works, but since you're in Phoenix I'd go with evening.
Why is Roy Williams dressed like it's 1978? (Via Fear The Tree)
Good question. He looks like he owns a plantation.
"This David and Goliath matchup."- Dick Enberg
Ummm....Washington State is a 4-seed. Not exactly a "David".
i think UNC's better is better than Washington St.'s better. (Via Iman883)
Yes...yes it is. Looked like Washington State was going to keep it close for a second there.
After Lawson hit the 3 to end the half: "Oh my! A punctuation mark!!!"- Dick Enberg
Really, Dick? Which one? (Via AJB)
I'd go with colon.
Nice stat graphic. 15 seconds into the half CBS shows us that both teams are 0/0 FG for the half. (Via Mal)
"He was strokin' with the best of them!" - Bill Raftery (Via JR)
"Can you get a technical for thinking in Mandarin?"- Bill Raftery
"He used to sleep on a roll-up mattress. I can relate to that."- Bill Raftery (Via Anon)
Too funny.
"He just can't get it up" - Dick Enberg (Via SS Reporters)
"Sean Miller down on the floor. Looked like the Blue Devils of Duke."- Verne Lundquist
That reminds me of this Sports Pickle post
"Everybody hugging their guy."- Bill Raftery
"He's declared that bucket ineligible for the rest of the tournament".- Bill Raftery (Via Mal)
"A 3 seed Xavier trying to get to the sweet 16."- Verne Lundquist (Via Mal)
"Appropriately for a guy who grew up in Asia, that one went around the world."- Verne Lundquist
"Thrust of the fist!"- Bill Raftery
Nasty Bill....just nasty.
"The answer is take it off."- Verne Lundquist
"Late at night I favor that myself."- Bill Raftery
Ummmm.
Did Raftery just say that Joe Alexander has "Big Onions"??? (Via Swanny11)
Yes....I believe he did. These two are the best. I don't know how I can hate Verne so much in Football, but love him so much in BBall.
"He becomes the second muskateer to foul out. One more and they could write a novel. I'm sorry, it was right there it was an airball, I had to swat it."- Verne Lundquist
"Great use of the bounce....to ECSTASY!"- Bill Raftery
Bill is horny tonight.
"There is Love lurking."- Verne Lundquist
"That's every man's dream. To have love lurking."- Bill Raftery
"I'm working with a man without shame."- Verne Lundquist
"Hey join the club....it's painful."- Bill Raftery
"When in doubt....just stroke it!"- Bill Raftery
67 Comments:
Oh crap, did anyone just see what happened? Hilarious CBS.
Why is Roy Williams dressed like it's 1978?
Don't think Verne said that...quite sure it was Dick Enberg.
Enberg = Bias
Since when did many people expect UNC to roll over Wazzu?
"The crowd rises to its feet as they know it's not going to be as easy as many people thought."
It sounded like Enberg just said sh*tting the defender.
anyone going to mention how UNC is owning Washington St. at their own game? Bilas? Enberg?
i think UNC's better is better than Washington St.'s better
"...and they're getting a bagel from the national player of the year" - bilas.
Not to be presumptuous or anything.
@anon 8:11 - Bilas is right. Beasley hasn't scored a point tonight.
Did you after Lawson hit the 3 to end the half: "Oh my! A punctuation mark!" Really, Dick? Which one?
I changed my sentence around and left out "what Enberg said"... I guess we are all mistake prone.
Maybe Bilas was referring to the ESPN Player of the Year Award?
Probably not.
Does an asterisk count as a punctuation mark or did Barry Bonds use all those us last year?
Nice stat graphic. 15 seconds into the half CBS shows us that both teams are 0/0 FG for the half.
not sure if anyone knows about this (i think i read it on engadger or engadgethd). if you are watching cbshd through your antenna (not cable) and you can find a cbs-2 channel, you may be able to watch the other game currently being shown.
i'm in arizona and i can disconnect my cable, connect the antenna and watch wvu/xavier (close) instead of wsu/unc (turning into a rout).
-dan
@dan - i've done that too. one is usually hd and the other standard def. i still like the directv package. some feeds show no commercials. i kinda miss hearing about ronnie being a dillweed though.
"He was strokin' with the best of them!" - Bill Raftery.
With 14:28 to go: The one African-American in the Xavier is sporting the Bob Knight look tonight. No jokes, as I would assume it's for breast cancer awareness as well.
Why has no announcer remarked about the reduction in size of the NCAA center court logos?
"he used to sleep on a roll-up mattress. I can relate to that." - raftery
he's in the zone tonight
Is West F'n Virginia actually going to pull this thing out after falling behind 28-10?
Hey, whoa whoa! Where'd the verification thing go? It's here, it's gone, it's here, it's gone. AA you're confusing me...
"He just can't get it up" - Dick Enberg
Here is an SAT question for you: True of False: Mike Patrick is to Coach K as Jay Bilas is to Tyler Hansbrough.
Well, living in Washington means having to be stuck with a basketball game filled with Bilas sucking on Psycho T.
Gosh Bilas, he only has 10 points.
Raftery: "He's declared that bucket ineligible for the rest of the tournament".
...and there's your requisite every-5-minute Duke reference...
Verne: "a 3 seed Xavier trying to get to the sweet 16". Ummm. Verne, where do you think you are?
tomorrow should be interesting. i was listening to tirico (rome is on vacation) and he mentioned both the detroit and houston regional will have the court at midfield. similar to the uk/msu game back in 2003.
here are a few good pics of what that game looked like:
http://www.cqql.net/msu-ford.htm
-dan
@AA - the sports pickle post was hilarious. tears flowing kind of funny.
get ready for your stuart scott in the crowd shot and the UNC game. the camera set ups during the commercial break had it locked on him. no power zoom though.
Whoa that's pretty cool Dan and glad I could help Mal.
Raftery: "a softer, gentler Bob Huggins".
It's a race... who can type "Thrust of the fist!" first?
Wow. How many shots do they need?
Who knew Washington State was in the Big Ten?
Raftery: "big time onions."
VL - "Take it off."
BR - "Late at night, I prefer it myself."
Could someone explain to me how there are so many problems with the time displayed at basketball games in 2008? No wonder flying cars aren't readily available yet. We can't even perfect synchronizing a few clocks.
Did Raftery just say that Joe Alexander has "Big Onions"???
Verne: "That's a very resilient timepiece up there in the endzone."
And over here we have the finest from Cartier.
Verne: "He becomes the second Musketeer to foul out. One more and they could write a novel".
It looks like Ruoff caught "the flop" from Duke.
Possibly among other things.
Raftery, for the second time tonight: "Onions!"
Might want to guard that guy...
Double onions and double daggers for BJ Raymond.
One of the best games of the tourney so far. Very high quality of play. Too bad Alexander and Butler had to foul out in overtime. Some bad free throw shooting was the only disappointment.
Raftery: "Everybody loves Raymond".
I agree Brett. I really wanted WVU to win. Fucking Ohio ruins everything.
By the way is anyone else sick of that stupid song by the Four Seasons or whoever they are with Frankie Valli? And that chick is UGLY!
Let's see... Bruce Pearl, former asst. at Iowa. Tyler Smith, spent one year at Iowa...
Yeah, the hawkeyes don't miss those guys... (bashes head against wall)
Which weighs more, AA, a hundred pounds of bricks or a hundred pounds of feathers?
/(Moment of silence for the CAPTCHA)
If a plane crashes on the border of the USA and Canada....where do you bury the survivors?
I guess AA's car isn't a vegetarian (or he has a DVR). I like how the kids just stare at that Chevy guy on about 2/3 of those commercials like they don't know what he's talking about.
I heard a screaming sound -- I assume the WKU/UCLA game started and some people were switched...
No i got the joke Paco....I hate that damn commercial.
"I don't know how I can hate Verne so much in Football, but love him so much in BBall." He has Raft to play off of of course.
Duke Cruise and Wayne Chism might be my two favorite names in college basketball.
True true Morgan.
i just re-watched the last few minutes of the unc game. i swear i think i heard enberg say, "the tarheels with a wolfman-like win."
Not enough Kevin Love.
"Kevin Love just drank a glass of Gatorade. This is really entertaining to watch!"
He's stroking it.
Im sorry, I jumped on the bandwagon.
"When in doubt, JUST STROKE IT!" - Bill Raftery
Bill Raftery: "When in doubt, just stroke it!"
Don't worry you can keep on making fun of it.