Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Damn ... There Goes Our CBI Brakcet


Less than one day after Drive and Dish published our inaugural CBI Bracket, our bracket is shot to Hell.

Houston and Old Dominion beat Drive and Dish projected winners Nevada and Rider, respectively. I didn't know anything about ODU or Rider this year, but -- in our all night meeting of the Drive and Dish editorial board -- Mark Buckets went to the wall for Rider. So I deferred to him, considering the fact that I hadn't seen either Rider or Old Dominion play this year.

Old Dominion beat Rider 66-63. Then, to add insult to injury, Houston further trashed our bracket by squeaking out a one point win over Nevada, 80-79. In fairness, Mark Buckets had picked Houston to beat Nevada, but I overruled him because Nevada has the seven foot JaVale Magee (a potential NBA first round draft pick), and because Houston is coached by Tom Penders. I decided that Drive and Dish would officially predict Nevada to beat Houston.

So now our CBI bracket is shot. But aside from Rider and Nevada, two of our other predicted winners from Tuesday night held on to win. So Drive and Dish's projections for the inaugural CBI finals are still a possibility.

Here's a rundown of Tuesday's CBI results, along with a list of CBI games to be played tonight:

Tuesday, March 18

Virginia 66, Richmond 64
Old Dominion 66, Rider 63
Ohio 80, Brown 74
Houston 80, Nevada 79

Wednesday, March 19

Cincinnati at Bradley - 7 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at Tulsa - 8 p.m.
Valparaiso at Washington - 9 p.m.
Utah at UTEP - 9 p.m.
(All start times are Eastern Standard Time)

According to the Gazelle Group (organizers of the CBI), two of tonight's first-round games will be nationally televised on Fox College Sports. The games on FCS Atlantic will also available on DirecTV channel 669. All tournament games can be seen live online (check the Gazelle Group's CBI website).

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

What you be needing to know about is Butler the 2008 ncaa mens basketball national champions. you be needing to write more learn cover about true college student athletes playing to get an education and not primpin for them espn cams. these butler players play defense and do things necessary as a team. No you aint be seein them showboatin for sneaker contracts.

You be seein Butler cuttin down them nets.

Weeeeeeeeee Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

WE BE CUTTIN DOWN THEM NETS

*Screamin out them windows
WE BE CUTTIN DOWN THEM NETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE BE CUTTIN DOWN THEM NETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Hey, y'all shouldn't listen to this idiot from Butler (I ain't never even heard of Butler by the way).

Y'all should be writin' bout my Georgia Dawgs!

How can y'all avoid writin' about the greatest story in college basketball?

We are a true Cinderella, a story for the ages.

I'll be expecting the Georgia Bulldogs article soon.

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

to mr. georgia george:

Your team be seeded halfway below a real NCAA program in Butler. Butler not be playing for showboatin or trying only at the end of season, Butler be showin up every day and doin it well. We lost only three games. goergia be losing that many in a week.

I aint no idiot. I saved up them mcdonalds tabs and won me a free duffel bag last year. what you be accomplishin in your life. Nuttin. I bet you couldnt even win a free dr. pepper at mcdonalds.

you be concentrating on payed athletes and them wacky tobaccy programs.

Uh huh.

Uh huh.

I agree with one thing you say... go Dawgs
Gggggrrrrrrrrrrooooooowlllllll!

Butler be having Pit Bulls, Georgira be having a Shitzu.

Our dogs be rippin down them nets!!!!

Butler. 08.

Anonymous said...

Trashtalk Superstar: Your blog has a gender bias. Your commentary on the men´s game is superb. What about the women?
So what about you Toki Wartooth? Are you looking for a shot at love?

Anonymous said...

Georgia like bug spring from bathtub sink. Butler fall off Old Rocky Top Mountain in second round. Tila mistake blog for personal ad. CBI teams full of poopey.

Anonymous said...

Mr. McGee you be needing to wash them potty mouth of yours. You be needing some church.

We be climbin up that mountain. Like them rocky we be kicked punched scrapin by but we gonna win. bsbsbbsbsbbsbsbs that be the sound of them wacky tobaccy program fallin down
bsbsbsbsbbsbsbbbbsbsbbs
another wacky tobaccy program fallin down
Butler we playing defense
bsbsbsbsbbsbsbsbsbbsbsbsbs
well be in San Antonio soon
bsbsbsbsbbsbsbsbsbsbsbsbbs
those showboating wacky tobaccy programs be fallin off that mountain

Tila you be needing some chruch going too

Butler boys be good church going students. they not be playing for them boosters providing cash under the table. Butler students be learning them peridic tables and blowing bubbles in them science labs. Uh Huh. Uh huh. They be sober on an off them court. They not be like them wacky tobaccy programs.

Booooooooo Digggggggggettty!!!!
We be cuttin down them nets

* Kissin Shelley Smith on them tv
We be cuttin down them nets

* Changing the Roach Motel litter next to the dinner table
WE Be cuttin down them nets

* Throwin them bugs in the air
WE BE CUTTIN DOWN THEM NETS

* Blasting a trumpet
We Be Cuttin Down Them Nets

* Bangin them pots and pans
We Be CuTtIn DoWn ThEm NeTs

* Doing the luge down them stairs
WE BE CUTTIN DOWN THEM NETS!!

Anonymous said...

We will be back next year, stronger than before. Losing last night's game is only going to make our guys more motivated in to get bigger, faster, stronger and better in the off--season!

Next year, we're going to cut down the nets in the CBI!!!!!!!!!!

GO RIDERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

GOOOO RRIDERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

GOOOOOO RRRRRIDERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

GOOOOOOO RRRRRIDERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Butler not going win Tournament Madness, cut down nets.

But I say Valpo win CBI. Media not know about Valpo. We have better player than other teams in tournament.

And Butler cheat when they win at Valpo. Dey steal game from Valpo. Referees like Soviet apparatchiks. They steal game from Valpo to make benefit Butler program.

Butler players all ptichkas.

Butler Bob is white trash ptichka.

Anonymous said...

to mr. vlade:

You be needin to pray for salvation and mercy sonny boy.
Stop what you be doing go to a church and ask for a priest. do it now.

You be jealous our program outshines and outclassed your program time after time. Butler be competing in the NCAA Championship and ur team be in them third tear tournament. Valparaiso be a good humble program. You be trashy one with them bigoted comments. You be needin to stand by ur sate programs. Butler fans be rootin and tootin for ur school in them backyard pond goldfish tournament. Go ride them wake out of Rider.

Butler. 08.

We be cuttin down them nets!

Anonymous said...

Butler Bob, here in Georgia, we've got an old saying to describe folks like y'all .... you're an idiot!!

How dare you insult UGA!

That bulldog means more to me (and to Dawgs fans) than life itself.

Just look at this:

ugaredzone.com/ugamerchandise/ugabitingauburnphoto.jpg

I well up with tears every time I see that picture. That dog did whatever he had to do to protect and keep the enemy out of his territory (the Georgia endzone).

He made that Auburn player (Robert Baker) drop that ball in our endzone. Sure the player scored on the play, but after his confrontation with UGA, he never wanted to go anywhere near that endzone again. We wound up winnin' that game because of that dawg. And he lifted up his leg on the offending Auburn player, to boot.

And tell me if y'all've ever seen anything that makes y'all all misty eyed more than this does:

www.uga.edu/gm/902/FeatUga.html

I'd gladly donate a kidney if that dog ever needed a transplant. Hell, I'd give up my liver, my pancreas and both of my lungs for that dawg, if he needed me to.

That's how much that little guy means to us Dawgs fans.

God, I love UGA.

More than I love my wife and kids.

Go Dawgs!!

Anonymous said...

sonny boy,

we love our doggy too. Ethel be mixin some wild oats for Buster every mornin. In a cage match a Butler Bulldog would maul then Georgia shitzu. Butler be taking out them wacky tobaccy program one by one. Butler be playing defense. Butler play a whole season not just the conference tournament.

Butler be cuttin down them nets.

gggggrrrrrrrrrrroooowwwwwwwwwwll!!!

Those wacky tobaccy programs be scared off!

ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooowwwwwll!!!!

We be rippin down them nets!!!!!

Anonymous said...

I'll admit, I didn't see the Dawgs play until the semifinals of the SEC tournament. But that's cause I'm a Georgia football fan first and foremost, like all Dawgs fans. I really don't care about basketball much anyway, but when the Dawgs made their run in the tournament, I couldn't help but jump on board this train!

Our basketball team didn't do so well during the season, but our boys was playin' for the name on the front of their jerseys (not the names on the back of their jerseys) in that SEC tournament.

Let me tell y'all, in that tournament, our boys stood up and said: "we don't care if y'all's got better records than us, we're the Georgia Bulldogs and we're goin' win this thing for Uga. Besides, we got some scores to settle from football season, since the BCS screwed the Dawgs over and put Ohio State in the championship game and put the Zooker and Illinois in the Rose Bowl (the Dawgs would have won the national championship if they'd been alowed to play in the championship game).

I'm tellin' you boys, I love that little bulldog. That Butler Bob got brain damage from spendin' all them years up North. Y'all yankees got somethin' wrong with your heads. That little pooch from Butler ain't no real bulldog, but Uga......now that's what I call a BULLDAWG!!!!

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!

We should've been playin' LSU for that BCS national championship instead of Ohio State.

UGA should've been guardin' that endzone in that championship game.

It's just a travesty that a low rent, carpet-bagging dunce like Les Miles got a national championship for himself. I hate LSU.

If we'd been in that championship game instead of that slow, soft, dead weight Big Ten team (Ohio State), Uga would never have let LSU get into that endzone. He would've been jumpin' up and bitin' them LSU cheaters, helpin'coach Richt and the Dawgs put another beatdown on Les Miles and LSU, and bring that championship back where it belongs .... right here in Georgia!

SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC!

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!