Chattin’ live on the NCAA tourney, propped-up-feet and all
The channel I'm watching, alas, is NOT truTV. (Photography and pedicure by M. Bradley)
Charlotte — Welcome to our third annual live chat off the Thursday afternoon NCAA tournament games. The first two years weren’t without controversy. In 2009 you folks made fun of my TV. Last year the Milwaukee Hyatt impelled me to relocate to Major Goolsby, a sports bar across the street, by delivering the sobering news that it did not offer room service for lunch.
(For breakfast, yes. For dinner, yes. Just not for lunch. Are you kidding me?)
But I digress. And now I move to this year’s issue: Of the 65 channels available on the wide-screen TV here at the Civic Center Marriott, truTV isn’t among them. I confess that I’d never heard of truTV until it came a carrier of NCAA games, but now I know what it is. And it’s not here. So I’m going to miss those games today.
My life: Drama untold.
And here we are again. I’m pretty sure the Marriott offers at least a tuna sandwich if not truTV, so I should be OK. For early games we’ve got Clemson-West Virginia, Butler-Old Dominion (though I won’t see it), Louisville-Morehead State and Temple-Penn State. Those are pretty good games, you’ll have to concede. And I’ll try my best to offer semi-cogent commentary until around 4 p.m., at which time I need to head for the arena for Washington’s media availability.
Thanks to all who entered Bradley’s Bracket Fiasco. (Entries are closed.) Thanks to all who dare to hang with me this afternoon. And away, as the Great One would say, we go.
By Mark Bradley
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Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:14 pm
Duke recruits kids who can get into and stay eligible at Duke. I don’t think I’m leaping off a logical cliff to say that the Fab Five probably didn’t have the grades to get into Duke. And before I get called a bigot, I, a white male, didn’t have the grades to get into Duke either.
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:15 pm
@JSS
The Fly was a he!! of a shooter. Too bad he played before the 3pt line
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:15 pm
Did Clemson blow the game vs UNC or did the ref fail to call a trip with about 50 seconds left that resulted in a shot not getting off in time?
Tucker T
March 17th, 2011
2:15 pm
Now Butler has a free throw at the 11:09 mark of the second half.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:16 pm
I read Hill’s OP-Ed piece yesterday by the way… Grant misses a broader point in what Rose (then 17) was saying…
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:16 pm
Know who recruited James “Fly” Williams for Austin Peay?
Leonard Hamilton, now the Florida State coach.
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:17 pm
A comeback?
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:18 pm
Ok Mark, we get it, you’re the king of useless college trivia, go order another chicken sandwich on us.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:18 pm
I could use a nice basket of nachos right now!
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:18 pm
8 pt lead by WVU under 4 to go
SportsPaige
March 17th, 2011
2:20 pm
I’ve got Vandy in Elite 8 and Richmond was toughest game for them to win imo.
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:20 pm
Mark, speaking of great shooters, do you (or anyone) remember a shooter from UNLV who played in the mid 80’s. Anderson maybe? He also played before the 3pt line.
Hamilton knows his stuff. I’ve talked to him about pressure man d before
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:20 pm
JSS
Then I can call u a bytch on a national stage and you won’t be pissed.
How many will see the movie and continue to see Rose’s lower class view of the world as the cool way to think.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:21 pm
Nick Anderson I think, Guy. He played a lot of years in the NBA, most notably with Shaq in Orlando.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:21 pm
Wait, you said before the line, my bad.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:22 pm
Maybe you’re thinking of Anderson Hunt. Or Freddie Banks. Or one of the Smiths — Robert or Sam or Tony. They all played at UNLV.
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:23 pm
Rose must have had some 2nd thoughts or he would not have sent twitter apologies to Hill and another Duke player preshowing.
Normally I hate Duke but today I’m on their side.
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:23 pm
Larry Anderson? He used to say that the further he got away from the hoop, the more natural his stroke was
SportsPaige
March 17th, 2011
2:23 pm
Mark, who was the stud guard at SW Louisiana back in early-mid ’70s?
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:25 pm
Getting very interresting in the WVU/Clem game
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:25 pm
Dwight “Bo Pete” Lamar. Played for the Ragin’ Cajuns.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:25 pm
Clemson just threw it away. That’s it.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:25 pm
Jalen Rose was no academic dim wit at Southwestern (Detroit). A school doesn’t produce a neurosurgeon like John Hopkins Dr. Ben Carson and not have the ability to have some rigor. It is by no means Cass Technical. But it was no he was no fraud like fellow SW alum Antoine Joubert…
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:26 pm
Clemson just threw up all over themselves.
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
2:26 pm
Have any of the people posting that Duke only recruits middle class kids who will stay on campus ever heard of a guy named John Wall? From Garner, NC? Made a bit of a name for himself at Word of God, Durham, NC?
Guess who offered him a scholarship? A guy with the nickname Coach K.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:28 pm
Three straight steals for West Virginia. Bobby Joe Hill of Texas Western only had two consecutive steals against Kentucky in ‘66.
Rich
March 17th, 2011
2:28 pm
Committee did not do Clemson any favors with late game in Dayton on Tuesday and early game in Tampa on Thursday. Hot early start and fade may be partially a result of that.
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
2:28 pm
Nick Anderson played at Illinois
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:28 pm
ODU-Butler back and forth. Two good, evenly matched teams slugging it out.
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:29 pm
Joubert……….the Judge. You’re right JSS, he was a dud
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:29 pm
Comeback over.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:30 pm
Antoine Joubert and Gary Grant in the backcourt. Roy Tarpley down low. That was the underachieving Michigan Wolverines of the mid-’80s.
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:30 pm
Imagine me defending Duke.
Ok folks.
You win.
I don’t care what any of u think.
North Ave Killer Beez
March 17th, 2011
2:31 pm
Clemson was getting a raw deal on those touch fouls before they self-destructed with the 1 minute to go. Horrible ref’s GO JACKETS!! What time does our game tip off?
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:31 pm
God bless streaming video
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:31 pm
Spot on MB
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:31 pm
West Virginia up 10.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:32 pm
Louisville and Morehead tied at the half. Eagles hit a three to tie at the horn.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:34 pm
No, you just accept the fact that there was a perception tinged in reality of the type of recruits that your Coach recruited… The track record is there. Was “Uncle Tom” a good choice of a description? No, it was not, but when Mike Krzyzewski shows me he can recruit academically gifted kids too without being dependent on the “choosers of winners and losers” pipeline of the high line preps. Then, I’ll say that Rose was wrong to point a basic fact: “they don’t recruit people like me.”
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:35 pm
Mountaineers just too strong for Clemson.
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:36 pm
Coach K is far from my coach.
At times I despise him.
On rare occasional I can admire him though.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:36 pm
Huggy Bear gives Brownell a half-hug.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:37 pm
I’ve gone back and forth on Krzyzewski. Is he smug to excess? Yes. Is he the best coach after Wooden? Absolutely.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:38 pm
@ Mark Bradley…
One name explains Michigan failure during those years: Bill Frieder! He and Bobby Cremins can get together and always find a way to ruin a good thing!
Oh, and there was a little thing called “Cocaine!”
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:39 pm
Good summation Mark.
How bout we move on to the next game?
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:39 pm
come on ODU
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:39 pm
I do believe Michigan won the NCAA title just after Bo Schembechler told Frieder to leave for Arizona State posthaste.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:40 pm
Butler up four on ODU. I wish I could tell you what’s happening.
Penn State up seven on Temple. Surprising.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:41 pm
Kentucky and Princeton next.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:42 pm
@ Paul in the RDU…
Did you miss where I put a delineation line of who Duke recruits now?