With toenails trimmed, our new-look NCAA live chat is a go!
TV or not TV, that is the question. Or something like that. (Photo and pedicure by yours truly)
I’ll have you know that I clipped my toenails just for this. (I even thought about putting polish on them. Then I realized I don’t really know how that’s done.) And clipping my toenails is, for this correspondent, an experience fraught with trauma.
On Sept. 25, 1997, I had taken a shower and repaired to the bedroom to clip my toenails. The deed done, I walked into the bathroom to return the clippers in question to their assigned drawer. I slipped on a wet spot and shattered my right kneecap into seven asymmetrical shards. I was on crutches until January. To this day, I have no right kneecap.
But I digress. I worked up my nerve and clipped my toenails because I didn’t want to appear all scraggly for our new-look NCAA tournament Day 1 live chat. As you can see, we have a new TV. The old one in the den stopped working last summer. (Although the old one in the den wasn’t nearly as old as the one featured in previous NCAA live chats. That one still runs like a charm.)
OK, enough about me. The Big Dance starts in earnest today, though it would be tough to top the doings in Dayton on Tuesday: Western Kentucky trailed by 16 points and won; BYU trailed by 25 points and won. To invoke Dickie V.: Are you serious?
First up today is Murray State-Colorado State. The Racers are, depending on your slant, either wildly underrated or overrated. Then comes Kansas State (overrated) against Southern Miss (underrated). Then Wisconsin (overrated) against Montana (dunno). That’s pretty fair fare for the first afternoon, I’d have to say.
And now it’s over to you. I’ll keep going until 4 p.m. or so, and I’d appreciate the company. And if anybody out there knows how to program these newfangled TVs, please sing out.
By Mark Bradley
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186 comments Add your comment
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
2:34 pm
No HD. We barely have electricity.
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
2:36 pm
Go Murray State!
Makes me 1-for-1 so far.
Old School
March 15th, 2012
2:36 pm
Who knew Charles Barkley is an “IT Guy”?
ClemsonBrad
March 15th, 2012
2:38 pm
Anyone have any good excuses right now on how to get out of the office to get to home/in a bar to watch March Madness?
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
2:38 pm
I don’t think you need an excuse to leave early to watch hoops.
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
2:39 pm
Hemy “guilty but mentally ill” on count 1, plain ol’ guilty on count 2.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
2:39 pm
Southern Miss is showing me nothing. Terrible pick.
ClemsonBrad
March 15th, 2012
2:40 pm
That’s true Mark. If it worked for you, it should work for me, right?
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
2:40 pm
ClemsonBrad, remember the wise words of Jimmy Buffett & Alan Jackson: “It’s five o’clock some where.”
KenDawg
March 15th, 2012
2:42 pm
Watching Montana – Wisconsin. Lots of facial hair on the Montana players. Living up to the Grizzly name…
ClemsonBrad
March 15th, 2012
2:43 pm
Who else wants to see Slick Rick and Louisville go down in the first round? Would love it…
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
2:44 pm
On the AJC.com on-line scoreboard they have KSU/SMiss in the East Regional even though it’s in the Southeast.
UGASlobberknocker
March 15th, 2012
2:47 pm
Where is the link to my Fiasco bracket? cant find it
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
2:48 pm
K State needs more than a 3-point lead to make me comfy.
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
2:50 pm
Though since Mark picked them.. that does offer me a bit of hope.
Brian
March 15th, 2012
2:52 pm
that smiley face is so not appropriate
Brian
March 15th, 2012
2:53 pm
K-State will prevail. up by 7 now
Brian
March 15th, 2012
2:54 pm
nevermind just 4 now
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
3:02 pm
As much as like the thought of a BYU upset, I think that comeback in the play-in game took everything out of them. Don’t think they have much – if anything – left in the tank.
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
3:03 pm
2-for-2 so far.
still in the running for that “one million dollars”
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:04 pm
I picked Southern Miss. Wrong. Also picked Marquette to lose today — to Iona.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:05 pm
Try here for the Fiasco.
http://ajc.collegehoops.upickem.net/collegebasketball/registration/loginmobile.asp
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:06 pm
Marquette ahead 18-5.
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
3:08 pm
The BYU tank must be emptier than I thought.
But if anyone can pull off a miraculous comeback… it’s them Mormon boys!
GACheesehead
March 15th, 2012
3:08 pm
Lets go Marquette WARRIORS!!!!!!!!
Jay
March 15th, 2012
3:09 pm
You have a foot fetish bradley. You often take photos with your feet in them.
y3ll0wjacket
March 15th, 2012
3:15 pm
Mark,
What was Kentucky’s record in the NIT back when it was the more prestigious tourney? It doesn’t seem that we make any allowances for that in today’s stats.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:17 pm
Another prediction: Louisville-Davidson will tighten up.
seezy
March 15th, 2012
3:17 pm
Mark, are those world book encyclopedias on the shelve?
seezy
March 15th, 2012
3:18 pm
are those world book encyclopedias on the shelf?
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:18 pm
I believe Kentucky has only won one NIT. In 1976.
seezy
March 15th, 2012
3:19 pm
i’ve got this louisville/davidson game on right now. sigh of relief that kansas state held on.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:19 pm
Sorry. Two NITs. One in 1946, when it was a big deal.
Marcus
March 15th, 2012
3:23 pm
Wow! New TV. Beats the old cabinet/anchor I recall from 2 years ago. All hail Best Buy.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:25 pm
I actually bought three tvs last year. I’d gone more than a decade without buying one, as you might know.
Rickster
March 15th, 2012
3:27 pm
I see that someone opened the childproof lock on the doors under the TV so Mark could get the remote.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:29 pm
You might say: Isn’t it unfair for BYU to play in Dayton on Tuesday and then again on Louisville in Thursday afternoon?
The committee didn’t have much choice. BYU will not play on Sunday, meaning they had to go to a Thursday-Saturday subregional.
seezy
March 15th, 2012
3:29 pm
davidson wishes they had seth curry still.
seezy
March 15th, 2012
3:30 pm
stephen curry i mean.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:31 pm
Davidson is doing nothing. Louisville letting the Wildcats linger.
Mike
March 15th, 2012
3:31 pm
God Montana sucks – already given up 40+ to Wisc? I just wanted them to cover the 9.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:33 pm
I’d pay attention to Syracuse against Uncle Asheville.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:35 pm
Almost picked Montana. Glad I resisted.
Mike
March 15th, 2012
3:36 pm
Not much else to pay attention to….favs are goin 5-0 to start the day. Can’t even get a good game.
ClemsonBrad
March 15th, 2012
3:38 pm
Everyone watch the Dickey kid for UNC Asheville. That kid can play!
railman311
March 15th, 2012
3:43 pm
This dang job thingy is getting in they way of my march madness. This chat board > ESPN
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:45 pm
Davidson making a run. Too late, though
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:48 pm
That Syracuse game could be intriguing.
Mark Bradley
March 15th, 2012
3:59 pm
Really a dull afternoon. I apologize.
railman311
March 15th, 2012
3:59 pm
Great I get home and theres a slow moving storm over Flowery Branch, Dish is out FML