Re: March Madness: The Thread

[Andy]

Looks like that McConnell guy is just going to hit everything. That's the problem with 54 percent 3-point shooters...they generally hit a lot of them.

[Outshined_One]

Geez, way to represent the Big East.

[Guest]

Looks like that McConnell guy is just going to hit everything. That's the problem with 54 percent 3-point shooters...they generally hit a lot of them.

 

His feet are offset in all of them, I don't know how you do that and hit more than half in games.

[Guest]

Reynolds is 2-20 from the field in the tournament including 1-9 from three.

[NCCubFan]

I've had a pet peeve with CBS' weekend telecasts for years. I hate that they only have one game during the early slot on both Saturday and Sunday. There's no other game to switch to during halftime, and if the one game gets out of hand, too bad. They could definitely do a better job of evening things out. Saturday would be easy; two games during each of the four time slots. Sunday could be three games during two slots and two games during one slot.

More teams playing in primetime = more fans watching = more ratings. $$$

It isn't the primetime slot that gets the extra game, though. There are two games each in the mid-afternoon and primetime slots, but three in the late afternoon slot. And Sunday primetime isn't even an issue, since the games end (or are at least scheduled to) before primetime and CBS televises the regular primetime lineup beginning with 60 minutes.

[Exile on Waveland]

Oh my god I am in love with St. Mary's. Pretty sure I played against these guys at the YMCA before. Fewer knee braces though.

 

Second, ugh. I struggled with Richmond-St. Mary's but knew I'd take the winner over Villanova. I chose poorly (not saying this game is over, obviously).

[Magnetic Curses]

no, you never played against these guys at the ymca

[Guest]

I've had a pet peeve with CBS' weekend telecasts for years. I hate that they only have one game during the early slot on both Saturday and Sunday. There's no other game to switch to during halftime, and if the one game gets out of hand, too bad. They could definitely do a better job of evening things out. Saturday would be easy; two games during each of the four time slots. Sunday could be three games during two slots and two games during one slot.

More teams playing in primetime = more fans watching = more ratings. $$$

It isn't the primetime slot that gets the extra game, though. There are two games each in the mid-afternoon and primetime slots, but three in the late afternoon slot. And Sunday primetime isn't even an issue, since the games end (or are at least scheduled to) before primetime and CBS televises the regular primetime lineup beginning with 60 minutes.

 

CBS is going to show as few games at 10 AM Pacific as they can. That's why there's only 3 games in the first set on Thursday and Friday.

[Outshined_One]

A team with one Australian, much less full of Australians, strikes me as a weird thing. I think I'll feel the same way once guys like Ryan Searle come up to play for the Cubs.

[Andy]

Geez, way to represent the Big East.

You won't win many games if your best player no-shows and/or you give up a bunch of 3s, and all four Big East teams to be knocked out (and now Villanova) have done at least one of those things.

[Exile on Waveland]

no, you never played against these guys at the ymca

 

Yes, thank you for taking my obviously hyperbolic post as literal as possible.

[Careless]

What a wonderful halftime show CBS is providing

 

over 4 minutes of dead air now

[Outshined_One]

What a wonderful halftime show CBS is providing

 

over 4 minutes of dead air now

 

Ghostbusters II has barely been better than it.

[Formerly Snayke]

What a wonderful halftime show CBS is providing

 

over 4 minutes of dead air now

 

Spoke too soon. Who doesn't want to see a profile of a bunch of Kentucky freshmen that probably accepted bribes from Calipari? We'll look back on this in three years and talk about the banners they had to take down.

[Careless]

What a wonderful halftime show CBS is providing

 

over 4 minutes of dead air now

 

Spoke too soon. Who doesn't want to see a profile of a bunch of Kentucky freshmen that probably accepted bribes from Calipari? We'll look back on this in three years and talk about the banners they had to take down.

It just came back here, so I missed that too. 10 minutes of dead air is a really long time, I'd like to see what's going on at the station when that happens

[NCCubFan]

I've had a pet peeve with CBS' weekend telecasts for years. I hate that they only have one game during the early slot on both Saturday and Sunday. There's no other game to switch to during halftime, and if the one game gets out of hand, too bad. They could definitely do a better job of evening things out. Saturday would be easy; two games during each of the four time slots. Sunday could be three games during two slots and two games during one slot.

More teams playing in primetime = more fans watching = more ratings. $$$

It isn't the primetime slot that gets the extra game, though. There are two games each in the mid-afternoon and primetime slots, but three in the late afternoon slot. And Sunday primetime isn't even an issue, since the games end (or are at least scheduled to) before primetime and CBS televises the regular primetime lineup beginning with 60 minutes.

 

CBS is going to show as few games at 10 AM Pacific as they can. That's why there's only 3 games in the first set on Thursday and Friday.

Screw the left coasters. :P

[Outshined_One]

That was a bizarre sequence of events.

[Jon]

Toejob.

 

I think there were about 5 missed traveling calls there.

[Careless]

Did that pass bounce off a ref's foot?

 

edit: yes

Edited March 20, 2010 by Careless

[Andy]

That one was off the Sandman.

[Guest]

Any time Sandman wants to miss a shot or two would be great.

 

Ditto for Reynolds making a shot.

Edited March 20, 2010 by soccer10k

[Andy]

Any time Sandman wants to miss a shot or two would be great.

I should've been informed that Keyser Soze plays for St. Mary's before picking the South bracket.

[Outshined_One]

I'm convinced companies have decided to use commercials to lash out at consumers and make them suffer for not buying their products.

[JimSorgi]

I'm convinced companies have decided to use commercials to lash out at consumers and make them suffer for not buying their products.

I've seen that horrible Ivan bros commercial about a hundred times and I still have no idea what it's trying to convince me to buy.

[Careless]

The first time I saw that "Have you ever driven a car with silver polished into the wood" ad I thought it was going to be a joke. Funnier that it's not, I guess