Wednesday, March 26, 2008
A Verse of Maydogma: Tournament Edition
Tales from the First Weekend
If you even read the words “I’m picking Duke to make the Final Four” on this site ever again, please just punch me in the face.
(As a follow-up, I don’t think I’ve regretted a pick quicker than my Duke pick. I think it was 5 minutes into the Belmont game when I said, “OK seriously, what the fuck was I thinking?”)
Good for you, American…
Things I hate most in this world: 1) Violence 2) Racism 3) The Big Ten 4) Cats
UNLV winning their first game = the lock of the tournament every year
Cal St-Fullerton had me believing I still had the magic for about 1 half. Then reality kicked in…
Maydog’s Top 3 Teams that can Go to Hell, Under the radar Edition:
3) Cornell- Thanks for playing guys
2) Vanderbilt- 20 pts??? To a team from the MAAC?? WTF?
1) Winthrop- Maybe you should have pretended Wash St. was wearing Notre Dame jersey. Instead of scoring like 5 points in the second half, you would have scored 100 and won. Get out of my life and don’t come back.
If Ohio St wins tonight, I hereby declared myself the “King of the NIT Tournament Pools.”
This is probably where I should bring up Notre Dame’s crushing loss. Yep, they lost, it sucked. That’s all I got. Let us never bring this up again...
You mean Michigan St. may get back to the Elite Eight the one year I finally ‘give up’ on picking them? Get outta here. That never happens...
Final verdict: I was right about Georgetown being overrated. Please let me have this ONE moral victory.
I smell fried raccoon. You what that means? West Virginia must be in the Sweet 16…
Speaking of that merry bunch of hicks and their drunk driver coach, as a fan of a second tier Big East basketball program, the fact that WVA is the model for us all fills me with such rage that I want to go throw fruit at Kevin Pittsnogle, wherever he may be…
Will Gonzaga ever win a game when they’re a higher seed? Should they just ignore the seeding and pretend they are a low seed? For example: If they get a 4 seed next year, they should ask the committee to list them as a 16. They’d probably win the title…
Go ‘Nova….
New Rules for next year:
The “Lucifer has a summer home in the Missouri Valley” Rule- Never pick team for the Missouri Valley Conference - Fuck you Drake.
The “Wally Szerbiack/Dwyane Wade/Stephan Curry” Rule- Try to find the ‘tournament story’ player and pick his team to go to Finals - An awesome NBA-calibar player from a mid major going off on a scoring binge and carrying a smaller school; doesn’t this always happen ever few years? I may need actually some research next year instead of typing my column from the bathroom
The ACC Rule- Never trust a team with the ACC not named North Carolina (ok fine, and maybe Duke) in the first 2 rounds - Did you think Clemson was a lock up 18pts? Throw in Wake Forest’s history of ALWAYS failing to get to the Sweet Sixteen, and that’s enough for me.
Final verdict: I was right about Pitt, too. So what if I was wrong about EVERYTHING else?
Fucking UConn
If you even read the words “I’m picking Duke to make the Final Four” on this site ever again, please just punch me in the face.
(As a follow-up, I don’t think I’ve regretted a pick quicker than my Duke pick. I think it was 5 minutes into the Belmont game when I said, “OK seriously, what the fuck was I thinking?”)
Good for you, American…
Things I hate most in this world: 1) Violence 2) Racism 3) The Big Ten 4) Cats
UNLV winning their first game = the lock of the tournament every year
Cal St-Fullerton had me believing I still had the magic for about 1 half. Then reality kicked in…
Maydog’s Top 3 Teams that can Go to Hell, Under the radar Edition:
3) Cornell- Thanks for playing guys
2) Vanderbilt- 20 pts??? To a team from the MAAC?? WTF?
1) Winthrop- Maybe you should have pretended Wash St. was wearing Notre Dame jersey. Instead of scoring like 5 points in the second half, you would have scored 100 and won. Get out of my life and don’t come back.
If Ohio St wins tonight, I hereby declared myself the “King of the NIT Tournament Pools.”
This is probably where I should bring up Notre Dame’s crushing loss. Yep, they lost, it sucked. That’s all I got. Let us never bring this up again...
You mean Michigan St. may get back to the Elite Eight the one year I finally ‘give up’ on picking them? Get outta here. That never happens...
Final verdict: I was right about Georgetown being overrated. Please let me have this ONE moral victory.
I smell fried raccoon. You what that means? West Virginia must be in the Sweet 16…
Speaking of that merry bunch of hicks and their drunk driver coach, as a fan of a second tier Big East basketball program, the fact that WVA is the model for us all fills me with such rage that I want to go throw fruit at Kevin Pittsnogle, wherever he may be…
Will Gonzaga ever win a game when they’re a higher seed? Should they just ignore the seeding and pretend they are a low seed? For example: If they get a 4 seed next year, they should ask the committee to list them as a 16. They’d probably win the title…
Go ‘Nova….
New Rules for next year:
The “Lucifer has a summer home in the Missouri Valley” Rule- Never pick team for the Missouri Valley Conference - Fuck you Drake.
The “Wally Szerbiack/Dwyane Wade/Stephan Curry” Rule- Try to find the ‘tournament story’ player and pick his team to go to Finals - An awesome NBA-calibar player from a mid major going off on a scoring binge and carrying a smaller school; doesn’t this always happen ever few years? I may need actually some research next year instead of typing my column from the bathroom
The ACC Rule- Never trust a team with the ACC not named North Carolina (ok fine, and maybe Duke) in the first 2 rounds - Did you think Clemson was a lock up 18pts? Throw in Wake Forest’s history of ALWAYS failing to get to the Sweet Sixteen, and that’s enough for me.
Final verdict: I was right about Pitt, too. So what if I was wrong about EVERYTHING else?
Fucking UConn
Labels: College Basketball, Verse of Maydogma
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