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There's really only one way to take in NCAA Tournament play. Television.
All those chumps that headed up to Columbus are missing out. The tournament, surprisingly is one of the few sporting events caught on a couch. With so many games at the same time, if you attend one, you'll miss all the other action.
Unfortunately, my neighbor and I got screwed. He tried to purchase Comcast's complete NCAA package, so we could watch whatever game we wanted, instead of putting the remote in some CBS producer's hand.
However, after a few hours on hold, Comcast told him the package wasn't available in our area. And who says Blacksburg's a third-rate town? So instead, I had to handle the CBS's choice, and aside from a few slipups, the coverage wasn't half bad. Now, after eight straight hours on the couch, my butt is numb, and with my laptop on my crotch the whole time, my sperm count is lower than an 80-year old man's. But it was worth it to crank out yesterday's superlatives for you. Let's go to the awards.
Best NBA Jam Style Game Plan: To the Davidson Wildcats, who jacked up 35 3-pointers in against Maryland. The Terps must have felt like they were playing one of their friends who's awful at Sega, who picks the Cleveland Cavaliers just to play with Mark Price and his 99% three-point skill. It's the strategy that pisses you off because it works, much like Davidson was able to hang with the Terps for most of the game. Thank god it failed though, because I couldn't handle watching Davidson play Detlef Schrempf and Shawn Kemp in the second round.
Worst game: A toss-up between the Louisville-Stanford game and GWU-Vanderbilt. Ironically, it was also the games between the teams with the most similar mascots. Cardinals-Cardinal and Colonials-Commodores. This has nothing to do with the games, but they were so awful there's just nothing else to talk about. Speaking of the Louisville, their coach wins the…
Biggest Jerk: Louisville's Rick Pitino, for calling a timeout with 7.5 seconds left in the first half, up 26 points, to set up one final play. It failed, and Pitino went into the locker room with just a 13 possession lead. It must have given him fits.
Most Pointless Switch-over: While the final minutes of tourney games are easily the best parts, CBS needs to be more judicious when making the switch. With Old-Dominion and Butler tied up at the start of the 2nd half, CBS switched to the final minute of Louisville-Stanford with Louisville up 20. Is there anything more pointless? Aside from Stanford's gameplan
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