Live from UGA-Washington: It’s late night at the Big Dance!
Mark Fox coaches free throws at Thursday's practice. (Photo courtesy of the Charlotte Observer)
Charlotte – To borrow from the Kenny Loggins song that served as NBC’s theme for the 1980 NCAA tournament — yep, NBC once had the Big Dance — this is it. Georgia and Washington are about to meet, and ’round midnight we’ll know if the Bulldogs will be halfway toward the Sweet 16. And now you ask: Who in his/her right mind would pick Georgia to make the Sweet 16?
I haven’t had a very good tournament, forecast-wise — and we’re only in (Full) Day 2! — but I have made a bit of a comeback from yesterday’s misdoings. I had Arizona over Memphis, George Mason over Villanova, Florida State over Texas A&M. (I also had Tennessee over Michigan and came within 31 points of being right.)
As we speak, I’m seated courtside at Time Warner Cable Arena, and you will be shocked to know there are about 12,000 folks wearing powder blue in the joint. (North Carolina play Long Island in the early game.) But before we begin our live-blog thing, I must pass along a snippet of news both good and bad.
Owing to the late start of UGA-UDub, no print edition of Saturday’s AJC will include an MB column reflecting the outcome of the game. This is my 31st NCAA tournament, and it’s the first time I’ve never had a print deadline to meet. But what that does mean is that I won’t have to switch from the live-chatting to write an actual column. I can offer the usual wit and insight — “Yeah, right,” you’re saying — until the final buzzer, if and when it arrives.
With that, we’ll tip off the digital festivities, and I hope you’ll join me in saying: Thank goodness for AJC.com. And, once again, away we go.
By Mark Bradley
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Since Vince
March 18th, 2011
11:40 pm
Like I said this game is OVA.
UW Dawgs by 20!
March 18th, 2011
11:41 pm
Whose house?
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:41 pm
Blubber 4!!! Say What?
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:41 pm
Jeremy Price commits his fourth foul. Charges. The under-12 break comes with 10:50 to play and Georgia down 49-39. Thompkins has 19 of their points.
bwell
March 18th, 2011
11:41 pm
Ga settling for a L
Paul in RDU
March 18th, 2011
11:41 pm
The UGA players look like they are starting to get worn down
LLUGA
March 18th, 2011
11:41 pm
Off foul?!? Oh wait…same ref took away a basket from UGA…hard enough to beat a good team…extra hard to beat refs that suck
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:41 pm
On bench near you in foul trouble, Jeremy Price!
Mark Richt gained 22lbs
March 18th, 2011
11:42 pm
Anyone for Wendys after the game ?
Tell the truth
March 18th, 2011
11:42 pm
Boise Dawg make that 21-11
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:42 pm
How amny teams do we still have in the Tourney right now? Kentucky, Florida and UGA? is that right
Borodawg
March 18th, 2011
11:43 pm
I would rather have had Thornton playing all year instead of Price just to get him experience, he obviously is more athletically gifted.
dragon
March 18th, 2011
11:43 pm
The dawgs got this one……bradley called it!
Tell the truth
March 18th, 2011
11:43 pm
SEC is 2-2 with Ga going down later will be 2-3
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:43 pm
Dogs huddling after the timeout. Guys talking to each other. They’re trying, ladies and gentlemen.
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:43 pm
Oh goodness, not “the ref are against us” UGA theme song… They blew it, but they missed a ton of shots early!
oldbird
March 18th, 2011
11:44 pm
Looks like the refs will make the difference in this game, just like notre dame and tennessee.
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:44 pm
NCSU wants FOX for 3 mil a year let them have him.
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:44 pm
Wilcox misses a three. Georgia with a chance to cut it to single figures.
Mark Richt gained 22lbs
March 18th, 2011
11:44 pm
well….. dawgs will be 0 -2 to start the season next year so dont fret too much.
Stinger
March 18th, 2011
11:44 pm
Hewitt is available. Fox suxs.
playmeortrademe
March 18th, 2011
11:44 pm
christophorm….give thanks to our state’s abysmal public school system. They’re not exactly producing rocket scientists. Then, when you are majoring in “consumer economics”, you probably aren’t exercising your brain too much in class.
I also wonder when we will get smarter, more fundamentally sound player. Seems hoops last one was Sundiata Gaines (from New York).
KB
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
Big three
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
Ware’s first basket is a three at a big moment
Stinger
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
I’m betting you lose by 20+.
LLUGA
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
So UGA usually gives up about 20 or 30 points to an opponent in the last 10 minutes while only scoring a few…so final score should be UGA 47 Wash 72 or something like that…way to continue to embarrass yourself UGA>
Borodawg
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
I am starting a pool to go out there and find a point guard that can play and pay him. Who is with me?
Ron Jirsa
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
Fire them all !
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
WARE
Tell the truth
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
oldbird the refs caused Tennessee to lose by 30???
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:45 pm
Thomas pumps and hits an 18-footer.
LLUGA
March 18th, 2011
11:46 pm
Good call Stinger…you’re a genius
KB
March 18th, 2011
11:46 pm
Got to get some stops guys come on
KB
March 18th, 2011
11:46 pm
No d at that moment
Hairy Dawg
March 18th, 2011
11:46 pm
Dustin Ware…ugh.
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:46 pm
My Earl Boykins goodness!
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:47 pm
Leslie cuts it to seven. Then Washington misses. Then Leslie misses. Then Thomas scores on a layup. And Fox calls his next-to-last timeout.
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:47 pm
We might now win but my feet will be PRETTY.
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:47 pm
Don’t know about that one. He’s due to get a TV timeout at the next dead ball. And it’s still a nine-point game.
playmeortrademe
March 18th, 2011
11:47 pm
Fox using all his timeouts so if we DO get a last second chance he won’t call one before the winning shot…
Borodawg
March 18th, 2011
11:48 pm
Man if this UGA team played one of Pitino’s UK teams in the 90’s with the full court press on they would get housed by 30. They are so freaking lazy breaking the press it is terrible.
oakwood dawg
March 18th, 2011
11:48 pm
We suck–don’t believe there is any way we can win this game. Looks like we were not prepared.Coach Fox is a good coach but Washington is not that good a team. NC will destroy them Sunday. Of course, NC would have destroyed us too. Oh well, as the saying goes–wait till next year. I do believe our basketball program is heading up and we will get better and better but man this game is embarrassing.!
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:48 pm
@ DS…
LMAO!
christophorm
March 18th, 2011
11:48 pm
UGA basketball and football has become so predictable…they are who we thought they were.
Hairy Dawg
March 18th, 2011
11:48 pm
Nice way to come back from a timeout.
Mark Bradley
March 18th, 2011
11:48 pm
And Thompkins is called for an offensive foul. Nothing comes from the timeout.
It’s not dark yet, but it’s gettin’ there.
Delta Stewardess
March 18th, 2011
11:49 pm
WTF WARE that was STUPID
Since Vince
March 18th, 2011
11:49 pm
Even our Band is out of sync.
JSS
March 18th, 2011
11:50 pm
You guys have got to get two kids who can break people down off the dribble in the backcourt…
UW Dawgs by 20!
March 18th, 2011
11:50 pm
Oh, it’s dark, very dark!!!