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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557 comments Add your comment
Fred
March 17th, 2011
2:42 pm
Hey Mark, I didn’t read all 400+ comments so if this has bee addressed then please forgive me. you can watch all the games on your computer. Here’s the link:
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/2010-12-19/ncaa-march-madness-demand
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
2:42 pm
jalen rose was a honor student
Fred
March 17th, 2011
2:43 pm
LOL only 200+ comments, but it WAS 4 pages………
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:43 pm
Thanks, Fred.
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
2:43 pm
Mark,
I agree with your comment on Krzyzewski.
JSS also made a good point – a large number of Duke’s players went to “elite schools”. Ryan Kelly’s high school (Ravenscroft) costs $30k pa. Only people who can afford to send their kids there are corporate CEO’s and Bill Cowher.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:44 pm
@ Mark Bradley…
Fran Duffy strikes again, that’s all I’ll say…
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:45 pm
ODU down 4 with the ball, 1:52 left.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:45 pm
this odu and butler is a great game
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:47 pm
ODU missed a layup to tie.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:47 pm
Oh, now that was interesting, you mean if you had two equal teams that you’d take Coach K over Bobby Knight in a college coaching battle? After the Wooden era of course…
Fred
March 17th, 2011
2:47 pm
No prob Mark, I discovered it a couple of years ago when I was stuck in a damn motel without any good coverage too lol. You can minimize the screen and still listen so you can continue posting.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:48 pm
They’ve missed enough layups to be up 10.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:48 pm
I would take Krzyzewski over Bobby Knight.
Justafan
March 17th, 2011
2:48 pm
ODU 56 Butler 58 with 36 sec..ODU got ball
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
2:48 pm
@JSS
Missed your comment before. I am transferring large files to and from a server and it’s slowing down my computer.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:49 pm
ODU ties it.
Justafan
March 17th, 2011
2:49 pm
Game tied with 31 sec
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:49 pm
Tie game ODU-Bulter.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:49 pm
tie game!
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
Butler wins on a follow at the horn.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
wooooooooooooooooow what a game
Justafan
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
Butler a last second tip in
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
Wow.
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
WOW!
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
Tough way to lose.
Great game though.
Fred
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
Unreal ending
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
Someone tell me how Butler made the championship game last year and lost by two skinny points.
Justafan
March 17th, 2011
2:50 pm
got to review it..got to be good per light
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:51 pm
Barely out of Howard’s hand. But out all the same.
Butler prevails.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:51 pm
Wow, and no silly over coaching! Now that is how the last minute of a basketball game should be played!
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:52 pm
How good a coach is Brad Stevens? I mean, the guy’s like 17 years old.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:52 pm
this is the true meaning of march maness!
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
2:52 pm
Clemson pulled within 5. Three great defensive plays by Pepper.
WVU is an interesting team. Speed, braun, tenancity and a smart coach.
Go Bucks! Go ‘Dores
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
2:53 pm
nice cheap shot jss..
Justafan
March 17th, 2011
2:53 pm
I’d like to see him at GT……
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
2:54 pm
Nice Feet, Brads. Cover those bad boys up.
Sonny Clusters
March 17th, 2011
2:54 pm
We count only 9 toes.
Fred
March 17th, 2011
2:54 pm
LOL I just noticed that the AJC has the “watch every game” imbedded on the home page. Expand the ad and click the game you want. Where’s my sign?
Rickster
March 17th, 2011
2:54 pm
So WVU over Clemson and Butler over ODU?
I’m 2-for-2 in the Fiasco!
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:54 pm
To all of those folks who thing the top layer of the CAA is overrated; do you still think that now? I just hate how the selection committee puts mid-majors on the same line. They eliminate each other early.
Rickster
March 17th, 2011
2:55 pm
I’m on a roll!!
Fred
March 17th, 2011
2:56 pm
That’s one way to look at it JSS, but you could also say that by playing each other, one team WILL move on…………
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:57 pm
@ Honest Abe…
Cheap Shot? I thought that is why you practice and run plays ad nauseum? Let ‘em play!
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:57 pm
lol charles barkley on trutv
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
2:57 pm
Brad Stevens is in his 2nd career and he still only looks 18 years old – he was in pharmaceutical sales for Lilly previously.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:57 pm
Can’t have those senior laden mid majors making fools out of the freshmen from the big boys now JSS, it would hurt TV ratings and cost the NCAA money. As we’ve seen from the latest round of football investigations, money and ratings are the 2 top concerns of the NCAA now.
joe
March 17th, 2011
2:59 pm
Coach Fox could learn a thing or two by watching the end of the Bulter/ODU game…
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:00 pm
Nope, their are great match-ups on that line when you expose the 2nd level of the so-called power conferences. See Duke-Eastern Michigan in 1996…
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:01 pm
Oops, “there”
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
3:02 pm
Pen St has been tough to figure out this year