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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JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:03 pm
Fox would have called a timeout at 4.3 seconds…
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:03 pm
Tough to watch too.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:03 pm
I’m only 1 for 2, Rickster.
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
3:05 pm
thought u were taking a dig at coach fox. tough situation at the end of the game… your damned if you do your damned if you don’t.. highsight is always 50/50
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
3:05 pm
@Mark you going to the hawks game tomorrow?
KevinM
March 17th, 2011
3:05 pm
Is there a link to keep up with the bracket leaders? Would be good to see how things are going as we go along here. Thx.
Fred
March 17th, 2011
3:06 pm
Well that part of my bracket is destroyed lol. I picked ODU to go until they lost to Florida………..
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:06 pm
@ Guy…
Why do say that? They have Battle and the rest of team doesn’t know when to show up… Well except against Michigan State and that coaching genius Tom Izzo…
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
3:07 pm
you’re
Jamesblonde_07
March 17th, 2011
3:07 pm
Our one true National Championship. God I love this tournament.
http://wereinthisthing.blogspot.com/2011/03/our-national-championship.html
KevinM
March 17th, 2011
3:07 pm
Fred should win something for being the first to admit one of his region just blew up. It never takes long.
Fred
March 17th, 2011
3:08 pm
LOL KevinM, I can’t even remember the link to where I picked my bracket against MB.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:09 pm
@ Honest Abe…
No, Fox just made a mistake not calling a timeout way before that, his team was in free fall… Under 30 seconds, I say let ‘em play… The 4.3 seconds was a cheap shot
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
3:09 pm
like i said.. highsight is…….
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:10 pm
Thank goodness for Y-a-h-o-o, I took my risks on the AJC cause I already have a IPad 2
Fred
March 17th, 2011
3:11 pm
It gets worse KevinM. I followed some bad “expert’ advise and picked Morehead State over Louisville…
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
3:11 pm
Is Calipari really as crooked as it seems?
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
3:11 pm
I’m on pace to win one MEEEL-yun dollars.
Btw, I believe hindsight is even better than 50/50.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:11 pm
What happened with Mark Fox against Alabama was trying to have it both ways: He didn’t call timeout after Alabama tied it, which was the right call, but then he did after his team got across midcourt, which wasn’t. And not just because Ware’s shot banked in. Just because you’re better off letting your team play that late.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:12 pm
I believe Morehead State has hit the wall.
Fred
March 17th, 2011
3:12 pm
Damn JSS, I forgot about the yahoo one. i did the AJC and the one on ESPN.
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
3:12 pm
Oops, “he”
KevinM
March 17th, 2011
3:12 pm
Fred, Morehead St. has the best player on either team, but it won’t be enough.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:12 pm
Oooooo, somebody send this tape of Princeton to Larry Drew…
EW
March 17th, 2011
3:12 pm
Early on in the chat you said you aren’t sold on SDSU, but previously you said you had it from a credible source that the are legit. What changed ?
Fred
March 17th, 2011
3:14 pm
Yeah, MB, it sure looks that way. they still have plenty of time, but they are blowing up.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:14 pm
I’m not really sure why I find Billy Raftery amusing. But I always have.
He is, you should know, a very nice man.
EW
March 17th, 2011
3:14 pm
they*
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
3:14 pm
i doubt coach fox wanted a timeout with .8 seconds left which is what happened. if he had to do it all over again he wouldn’t call it in that situation but i’m thinking he thought they’d still have at least two seconds.
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
3:15 pm
MB, what about Billy Packer? They were ripping him up pretty good on 790 last week. Is he as bitter & thankless as they made him out to be?
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:15 pm
I’m just weird, EW. That’s all.
jarvis
March 17th, 2011
3:15 pm
Wasn’t Barnhart supposed to be back on March 14? Something strange is afoot at the ajc.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:16 pm
@ Mark Bradley…
What is it about the A-10 and “dirty coaches?” It was the “Cradle of Dirty Coaches!”
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:16 pm
All I will say about Billy Packer is that I considered him a good basketball analyst.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:16 pm
Fox thought he’d called the timeout with two seconds. But he hadn’t.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:17 pm
The A-10 has dirty coaches?
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
3:18 pm
Heh. You sound like you’re giving an employment reference. “I thought Britt was a capable systems analyst, and if given the opportunity I would not rehire him in the future.”
Fred
March 17th, 2011
3:18 pm
Classy answer about Packer MB.
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
3:18 pm
If that’s all you can say……..than, ouch! That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:19 pm
Coach Rafferty coached my Coach my cousins at Seton Hall… My Aunt in Linden, NJ tells the funniest Rafferty recruiting story… “I’ll be honest, they won’t win many games, but they’ll get a great Catholic education!”
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:21 pm
Eagles cut it to four.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:22 pm
Calipri at UMass, Harrick at Rhode Island, Penders at Rhode Island, Buster whatever his name was Umass… Is he off the NCAA can never coach again list yet?
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:23 pm
Bruiser Flint. Not Buster.
But Calipari and Harrick were a while ago, were they not?
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:24 pm
I note Tony Greene is calling the Louisville-Morehead game. Best referee in the business. From Atlanta.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:25 pm
Morehead State down by one. Second wind time.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:26 pm
Doesn’t have a thing to do with basketball, but if you’re a dog lover like I am, you need to check out this video and article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/dog-in-japan-stays-by-the-side-of-its-ailing-friend-in-the-rubble, a sad story with what seems to be a happy ending.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:27 pm
Battle of PA — Temple and Penn State — is even.
Nope. PSU just went up three.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:27 pm
Don’t forget the mess at St. Bonaventure, they almost got the basketball equivalent to the death penalty.
joe
March 17th, 2011
3:27 pm
Tony Greene is the WORST ref…calls the slightest little hand checks instead of letting them play. Who cares where he’s from…but maybe he helps the local teams??
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:27 pm
Morehead State with free throws to take the lead. Whoa