March Madness!

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:01 am

Ok, so Duke-UNC is a huge rivalry and a huge story, but you'd think ESPN might devote 30 seconds of coverage to the de facto title game in the best conference in the country when Louisville visits the Phone Booth in D.C. today. I'm so sick of seeing the so-called "cameron crazies" who are just a bunch of sober over-enthusiastic nerds that intimidate no one. I hope that clown Pitino shows up in a red suit today. GO HOYAS!

Astros · Post by **Astros** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:29 am

I agree with you 100% Dan. A bunch of rich kids jumping up and down and going "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" for 40 minutes does not make them great fans. That's why I didn't bother watching Gameday today, I knew it'd just be an hour of ESPN giving the Duke/UNC rivalry a verbal blowjob

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:35 am

As much as I love BE basketball, if you want to see great fans, watch the kids going absolutely nuts at some of these small conference tourneys this week. I'll be watching the first 30 mins of the UNC-Asheville game w/ 7'7" behemoth Kenny George.

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:47 am

Good god those Duke girls are ugly. Erin Andrews is most definitely the only attractive woman in Cameron.

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:03 pm

Thank you CBS! It's not a big-time Big East game if Bill Raftery isn't involved. "Georgetown comes out... MANTOMAN!"

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:32 pm

BE CHAMPS (again).

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:39 pm

If you think Duke girls are ugly, you should see the dogs over at Xavier...

Cardinals · Post by **Cardinals** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:55 pm

RedSox wrote:If you think Duke girls are ugly, you should see the dogs over at Xavier...

you sure you guys are looking in the right places for them? every school is filled with a fair amount of hot bitties

Nationals · Post by **Nationals** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:22 pm

Pirates wrote:
RedSox wrote:If you think Duke girls are ugly, you should see the dogs over at Xavier...
you sure you guys are looking in the right places for them? every school is filled with a fair amount of hot bitties

I'll second Bren--I was at Xavier for a conference last spring and it was highly un-eye-candy.

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:48 pm

Twins wrote:
Pirates wrote:
RedSox wrote:If you think Duke girls are ugly, you should see the dogs over at Xavier...
you sure you guys are looking in the right places for them? every school is filled with a fair amount of hot bitties
I'll second Bren--I was at Xavier for a conference last spring and it was highly un-eye-candy.

Andrew, I'm not sure this is one of those times when having you agree with me is quite as helpful as it is at other times... not that I don't appreciate it.

Nationals · Post by **Nationals** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:54 pm

RedSox wrote:Andrew, I'm not sure this is one of those times when having you agree with me is quite as helpful as it is at other times... not that I don't appreciate it.

Just 'cause I'm not buying doesn't mean I can't look at the produce in the grocery store.

Or some metaphor like that.

I just have an eye for aesthetic...and Xavier lacks any and all aesthetic.

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:15 pm

Fair enough.

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:32 pm

I've known a couple good looking duke girls, but they're few and far between and not likely to be seen amongst the "cameron crazies." Only from personal experience (so maybe I'm wrong), seems like you'd have to work pretty hard to find an ugly girl at SMU and Vanderbilt. Can't say I know enough girls from enough schools to call them the top of the heap, but the talent coming out of those places was pretty impressive coming from G'town (which was mostly chubby Irish chicks, with a small but impressive collection of extremely hot Euro/Colombian/Venezuelan girls).

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:40 pm

University of Cincinnati does ok I think. Northeastern was pretty prime in Boston and Emmanuel was even better (happens when it's an all girls school). University of Colorado at Boulder was very impressive, just the fact that there were more girls there that weren't fatties helped a lot.

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:46 pm

Back on the subject of college hoops, I'm moving to NY tomorrow (weather permitting) and I have no job, so I'll be showing up at noon on Wednesday at MSG and spending the day watching the BE tourney if I can find a ticket cheap enough for my liking. Otherwise I'll be at the Village Pour House (which is a G'town spot) watching games. Any unemployed (or irresponsible, or both) college hoop fans who would like to join me are welcome to.

Astros · Post by **Astros** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:02 pm

Dan I wish you'd have shared the info about Vandy a couple years ago. A buddy of mine I graduated with goes there, I'd have made sure to go down there for a weekend had I known that Vandy has top flight talent, especially for being such a strong academic school

WhiteSox · Post by **WhiteSox** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:04 pm

1) I spent a summer working at Vanderbilt in Nashville and let me tell you the ladies there are top notch.

2) Vacek I'll be in NYC for the big east tourney starting thursday night... ill keep my eye out for you (the drunk bearded guy right?)

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:36 pm

Since I don't have many photos of myself, this one from a houseboat somewhere in Amsterdam is the best approximation of how I'll appear during drunken college basketball revelry. Look for that guy.

Seriously though, once I figure out when the Hoyas are playing and get tix, I'll shoot you a PM w/ my section number.

Orioles · Post by **Orioles** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:30 am

check out bracketbrains.com. started by a friend of mine and some of his college buddies at Stanford. Good tool that could use a few slight tweaks, but is a nice betting tool for tourney picks as well as score predictions. Incorporates a lot of the off/def rate stats and pace stuff (a la Ken Pomeroy, etc), some of the other tourney pick strategies out there like Pete Tiernan's PASE stuff, and allows the user to determine how much he wants weigh things like RPI, polls, seed, recent success, overall success, SOS, experience when picking a winner. Based on what the user chooses for each individual game, it picks a winner and puts it in a bracket for you. The only bad news is that while you can mess around with the tool for whatever the featured matchup happens to be, you have to pay to have access to all the features. Worth checking out for gamblers and college basketball fans.