4:45PM- Hello and welcome to Drive & Dish's coverage of Selection Sunday. We won't bore you with "Bracketology" or mention "Corporate Champions." We will, however, be as opinionated as anyone out there. Let's get it started.
4:56PM- John Calipari is being grilled by Greg Gumble and Seth Davis. Predetermined questions? Not a chance. These guys are flying by the seats of their pants. Riiiight...
4:57PM- Earlier in the day, Jim Nantz took a pot shot at ESPN. He said something to the extent of "The NCAA Tournament Selection Show clock is more accurate on CBS than it is on ESPN." I understandthat, Jim, but take it easy. The ESPN family of networks did pick up the SEC Title Game.....
5:00PM- Here we go.
5:01PM- UNC #1 overall. I don't question that at all. Neither do Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis.
5:02PM- The four #1s....UNC in the East, Memphis in the South, UCLA in the West and Kansas - by virtue of their Big XII Championship - is #1 in the Midwest.
5:03PM- Nantz and Packer seem to have no quarrels with the brackets this year. Billy boy hasn't softened, has he?
5:04PM- Oooh, I like this. Hollywood Squares, College Basketball style! Tick-tack-toe, Baylor-Notre Dame-Temple! Nice touch, CBS.
5:08PM- If I see another commercial for Sonic's calorie-laden fried brownie bites, I think I'll puke....
5:09PM- North Carolina vs. Indiana in the second round possibly? I'm juiced!
5:10PM- In the 2/15 game, Tennessee will take on American. These two teams are polar opposites...It might not be pretty.
5:13PM- As a non-partisan onlooker, it appears that Carolina should have a cakewalk to the Elite 8. From there, a Louisville #3 led by Rick Pitino-Roy Williams game at Bobcats Arena would be a wonderful game.
5:16PM- Villanova gets in. I'm still in shock that they got a bid.
5:17PM- Davidson gets a 10. 22 in a row in conference will earn you that.
5:20PM- Looking at this side of the bracket, the potential Kansas-Clemson 1-4 game in the Sweet 16 should be great.
5:21PM- Nobody will talk about this, but how about the prospect of a USC-Cal State Fullerton second round matchup?
5:22PM- USC earned a 6th seed and will take on Kansas State. Beasley v Mayo - neither will be near the other during the game - has the folks at CBS Sports licking their chops.
5:24PM- Looking over the Midwest, I like Davidson's chances to beat a Gonzaga team in the 7-10 game. It'll be played in Raleigh....bad news for Few's bunch.
5:25PM- Oregon gets in with a 9 seed.
5:29PM- Drive & Dish is experiencing some technical difficulties, so hang in there....We'll have it up soon and post some passionate opinions throughout the night.
5:30PM- Okay Roy < Jesus, give it to me. Duke apparently will be shipped out West with UCLA as the #1. That means that Duke will have to beat - if they're lucky enough to get that far - UCLA in the Regional Final being played in Phoenix.
Trashtalk Superstar adds:
Mark Buckets said:
"5:22PM- USC earned a 6th seed and will take on Kansas State. Beasley v Mayo - neither will be near the other during the game - has the folks at CBS Sports licking their chops."
The Tournament Selection Committee always denies that they deliberately seed teams in order to create match-ups that will generate interest from television audiences. Yet year after year, they never pass up an opportunity to create interesting "story lines" with their first and second round match-ups. Maybe it's just a coincidence. But it happens every year.
The battle of the superstar freshmen, Mayo vs. Beasley, is a sure-fire bet to generate media attention.
Mark also said:
"5:04PM- Oooh, I like this. Hollywood Squares, College Basketball style! Tick-tack-toe, Baylor-Notre Dame-Temple! Nice touch, CBS."
Thankfully, the NCAA Tournament Selection shows aren't really like "Hollywood Squares." If they were, Whoopi Goldberg and Bruce Vilanch would be mainstays on them instead of Billy Packer and Digger Phelps.
More on Bruce Vilanch here.
Although on second thought, Dick Vitale's shtick is so over the top that he could probably hold his own on Hollywood Squares.
Finally, Mr. Buckets said:
"5:16PM- Villanova gets in. I'm still in shock that they got a bid."
Never, not even for one minute, did I think that Villanova would be left out of the Tournament. I never considered them to be a true "bubble" team. They were in all along, in my opinion.
But Dick Vitale is already complaining that Syracuse got left out.
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dont look now, but Jay Bilas is complaining that the ACC only got 4 teams in.
Mr. Wartooth,
You said:
"dont look now, but Jay Bilas is complaining that the ACC only got 4 teams in."
I noticed that too. Also, Bilas prefaced his statement by saying (I'm paraphrasing):
"people are going to say (to me), you're an ACC guy, but..."
So he clearly knew that his statement would be met with skepticism and possible derision.
I'm just surprised that dook didn't get a 1 seed, regardless of their recent performance or unworthiness.
The Tournament Selection Committee always does everything in its power to hand the Final Four to the Pukies on a silver platter (but it's been an awful long time since Rat Face has been able to take advantage of the Committee's charity).
I agree with Seth Davis (despite the fact that he has a dook diploma hanging on his wall), Wisconsin deserved a #2 seed over Puke. Wisconsin got screwed by the NCAA.
Puke got a gift ..... again.
Hopefully UCLA will embarrass the Pukies, if the two teams face each other. I know that Darren Collison is going to own Greg Paulus.
UNC: NCAA Men's Basketball National Champions 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, (soon to be 2008).
Go HeelS!
bruce velanch is gay? wow! who knew? next thing your going to tell me ricky martin is gay, haha.
why you dont be mentioning Butler? The nummer 12 rank school! You be mentioning them wacky tobaccy cake faced ESPN schools. but not them teams who play a full court game! How about them Butler?!?!?!?!?
We gonna be cuttin down them nets!
We be ripped off with a 7 seed. Uh huh. Uh huh.
We be taking out them sinners one by one.
I be bustin out them good ole dancin shoes. Got them shined for the big dance. You gonna be watching Butler Bob dancing with Ethel during One Shining Moment, and peepin at that Shelley Smith on ESPN, when Ethel be powderin her nose.
Chugga Chugga Chugga Chugga Choo Choo!
Chugga Chugga Chugga Chugga BUTLER!
That train be a coming. That train be zippin by them wacky tobaccy programs hailin on them ESPN. We play real student basketball. Butler dont pay no student athletes. Butler play defense and do the gritty things to win basketball games, not just impress them cameras with windmills, like you see them Carolina wacky tobaccy programs
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeoooooow
That train be knockin out them wacky tobaccy programs one by one.
Bookin my Amtrak tickets to the Final Four.
* Jumpin up and down
WE BE CUTTIN DOWN THEM NETS
Weeeeeeeeeeeee Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
* Doin the Disco Slide
WE BE CUTTIN DOWN THEM NETS
* Throwing my Jacks in the air
WE BE CUTTON DOWN THEM NETS
Butler.
08.
WE BE CUTTIN DOWN THEM NETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's bullshit that the Cuse got left out of the tournament again. You can't tell me that there are 34 better teams than the Orange. We belong in the NCAA. This is a royal screw job. Just like last year.
Total bullshit.
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