I think I'm turning into Dr. Z…only I write for a blog and not Sports Illustrated. 2-2 last night. Thanks, Tennessee. I knew I couldn't trust a team from Knoxville. I should have picked against the spread. I would have been golden.
The Vols basically had a repeat performance. Start hotter than Scarlett Johansson in a sauna covered in those Icy Hot pads that Shaq wears, then get as cold as my hands as I tried to dig my car out of the snow at 2 a.m. last Friday. You knew it was coming though. At halftime you were thinking to yourself "My bracket is just fine. Ohio State will make a colossal run and Bill Raftery will yell lots of great things."
Speaking of…what about the "DEPLOYMENT" he belted on that late Ohio State trey from the corner? Deployment? I'm not quite sure that was the best diction, but I loved it nonetheless.
I'm tired of talking about Tennessee. I got a great message from my buddy Phil, a Pittsburgh native, during the UCLA-Pitt game that was not televised here in NY. Basically you could sum it up in "Aaron Gray is a hand-less, feet-less waste of space." I heard last week he didn't even have 1,000 points in high school? How is that possible? Was his county full of other 7-footers better than him?
Acie Law IV broke my heart when he missed that layup. The dude hit more clutch shots this year than anyone not named Kevin Durant. Thursday's result means aTm has lost six of its seven games this year by 11 points. 11. That's like a loss margin of -1.85 or something like that. I don't feel like clicking the start menu, going to applications, clicking calculator and doing the math. I felt more inclined to typing the steps.
And Southern Illinois. They played like a four seed, but it had the feel of a 13 vs. 1 game. I think it would have been so cool for them to pull the upset. I don't know that Kansas can win it all if they continue to choke from the FT line.
I'm out, gotta write about the other eight teams playing tonight.