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That was in the NCAA tournament a year ago if I recall. Yeah, that was hilarious and it was last year.

And if the ref calls a flagrant foul, like it would normally be called in rec league, high school, college, or NBA, Xavier wins the game too. You can't control the what the refs are going to do and can't assume anything. You can control making your own free throws. Xavier didn't make theirs, too bad for them.

I don't buy this. After playing and coaching for many years, I just don't think "acting" jobs happen that often, especially in the heat of a moment of a tight NCAA game. Things are happening too quickly to stop and think like that. Now, once players hit the ground, sure some acting goes on. But its giving Xavier's player a ton of credit to think that in a split second upon being hit he decided to put on the act while flying out of bounds. Yeah, I don't think he was acting-but I do think the way his body was positioned it set him up for a harder fall then Oden actually pushed him with. It also needs to be taken into account that this was at the end of a long scramble where there were at least a couple trips and pushing that the refs swallowed their whistle on, so they already were letting some contact go. Plus, you can call an intentional foul on most fouls at the end of the game because a team is only fouling to send a guy to the line. Isn't that what an intentional foul is? Like you said CCP, the refs were being very lenient and could have called a foul on Xavier during the scramble so it was fair to only call a regular foul on Oden.

Yeah, for some reason they didn't say as much when Greg Oden basically picked a guy up and threw him out of bounds, but that wasn't a flagrant foul. But whatever, traveling doesn't exist any more, so they shouldn't have called it there. Happily, despite Tennessee's collapse and aTm's narrow loss yesterday, I can still win my pools if UCLA wins the championship - which won't happen because I picked them. But it's nice to have a rooting interest other than rooting against the best paid team in the nation. The Xavier guy did quite the acting job on that play though. Oden pushed the guy but not nearly hard enough to send him flying like he did. The Xavier player went flying like a Mexican soccer player. And that play shouldn't even matter because if Xavier makes its free throws, they win the game.

Hopefully we won't let you down, but KU is a better team. I also have 7 out of 8 Elite 8 teams - missed on Memphis (sadly, I had Texas A&M all the Final Four). Even though I have Kansas in the Final Four, I will be pulling for UCLA and Memphis because it will pretty much screw everybody else over in the pool I'm in with some friends. Almost all of them have either OSU or Kansas winning it all so if both of them lost, it would all but secure victory for me.

This is Kobe's league and everybody else is just playing in it. Fourth straight 50+ point game tonight for Kobe. Only Wilt has done this before. Unreal.

Butler is reeling right now and Florida is up 1. No field goals in over 7 minutes for Butler.

Seven straight for Georgetown and they're down 5 now.

Bad starts for the favorites today. Florida and Georgetown are losing.

Go Florida, UNLV, UNC, and Georgetown!!

Not a smart move by CBS.

That would require him to take a break from eating.

I'll take him in Oakland. Hasn't he suffered enough? Probably.

I'll take him in Oakland.

At least it's red. It's a fantastic shirt. If the US plays Mexico in the final I'm finding some sort of anti-Tricolores shirt to wear. It needs to have some reference to 'dos a cero' in it, of course. http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477415&page=12 Awesome shirt. I'm considering ordering one.

I'll feel much better if Florida loses tomorrow, but with my luck they'll probably go all the way. :cry: At times like this, I hate sports. Why couldn't I have grown up loving Duke, the Yankees and the Patriots? My life would be so much easier. I apologize to everyone on the board for these horrible words, I'm just in a very depressed mood right now. Exactly how I felt about 4 hours ago... You'll get over it eventually. I'm already partly over it. But usually, the morning after is the worst. Hopefully I don't break my hand from punching a wall. The morning after is terrible, especially for me. I have a 45 minute drive to work and I always listen to the local sportstalk station. In the morning, all they'll be talking about is the game tonight. Thus I have to either relive every moment of this game or not listen to sportstalk (probably what I'll do). Then, when I get to work, being the sportswriter, I'm expected to discuss the game with whoever wants to and, while that's normally an enjoyable part of the job, it'll suck in the morning. The good thing is, my boss (an OSU fan) is on vacation so I won't see him again until Monday. Luckily I don't have to wake up till noon tomorrow. I'm going to try to avoid reading the paper too. It's going to be depressing though on campus. Depressing for you? We won nine freakin games this year! :lol: Heh, we only won five games and that was fewer games than the football team won.

Kobe with his third straight 50+ point game and he'll go for #4 tonight. There is no doubt in my mind that if the Lakers make the playoffs, he should be the MVP this year. He should have won it last year but the voters incorrectly gave it to Nash.

Come on Vols!!

OSU in the double bonus with over 8 to go.

If you told Thad Matta before the game that with 12 minutes to play, that Greg Oden would have sat out a majority of the game and have 3 points and only 1 field goal attempt, he would be pretty happy only being down 4 points.

Hopefully not.

I was just typing how big it would be if UT could draw either Oden pon Conley's third foul when Oden picked up his third.

I wish Gus Johnson was announcing these games.

Tennessee now 7-10 from beyond the arc and they have a 25-14 lead. Looking good so far. Hope they can keep it up.

Where's SouthSideRyan? I want to hear how great of a player SSR thinks Aaron Gray is. :D