I find myself otherwise engaged tonight as does TheMomCat. I’ve asked BobbyK to check in from time to time, please be nice to him and make your own fun.
My predictions so you can point and hoot are Louisville over Kentucky and Ohio State over Kansas. I like Louisville because of their Big East connections, Ohio State I don’t like at all but I like Kansas less.
Joe Nocera wrote a piece that everyone is talking about-
Orwell and March Madness
By JOE NOCERA, The New York Times
Published: March 30, 2012
Athletes are “student-athletes,” a phrase coined by Walter Byers, the man who turned the N.C.A.A. into a modern powerhouse, because he feared that some states might try to classify football and basketball players as employees. College sports follows “the collegiate model,” a term coined in 2006 by one of Byers’ successors, Myles Brand. Realizing that amateurism was becoming outmoded, he needed a new concept that would allow athletic departments to continue exploiting athletes while denying that is what they were doing.
The essence of “the collegiate model” is that college athletes are students first, and that college athletics is secondary to academics. One can then ignore the fact that during this three-week tournament, the N.C.A.A. will reap around $800 million, while the players who make that possible will get nothing. They’re students, after all.
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Calipari, complained Emmert, was “throwing away the collegiate model.” But, he’s not, because in the big-money sports of football and men’s basketball, the collegiate model is a fiction. Rather, Calipari is dispensing with the hypocrisy that everyone else goes along with, including our basketball-mad president, who allows himself to be interviewed while filling out his March Madness brackets, but can’t bring himself to utter a word on behalf of the athletes that college sports so ruthlessly exploits.
Regional Final Results-
| Result | Seed | Team | Record | Seed | Team | Record | Region |
| 70-77 | 1 | Syracuse | 32-2 | 2 | *Ohio State | 28-7 | East |
| 72-68 | 4 | *Louisville | 27-9 | 7 | Florida | 23-10 | West |
| 82-70 | 1 | *Kentucky | 36-2 | 3 | Baylor | 30-8 | South |
| 67-80 | 1 | North Carolina | 32-6 | 2 | *Kansas | 31-6 | Mid West |
Tonight’s Action-
| Time | Seed | Team | Record | Region | Seed | Team | Record | Region |
| 6 pm | 1 | Kentucky | 36-2 | South | 4 | Louisville | 27-9 | West |
| 8:30 | 2 | Ohio State | 28-7 | East | 2 | Kansas | 31-6 | Mid West |
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14 minutes left
game tied. 13.5 minutes left
ends 8.5 minute stretch without basket.
time out kansas
49 – 43 8:21 to play
49 – 48 7 minutes to play.
5 minute mark. 55 – 51 Ohio
Kansas at the foul line with a chance to go ahead. 55-54
Ohio at the line. Hits two. Back ahead.
Kansas up 3 1:05 to play
fouls strategy in play
kansas to shoot 2
64-61 kansas 8.3 left.
Kansas stole inbound pass. loses it out of bounds.
2.9 seconds
Game over.
Well that was exciting!
(documenting the experience and all)
heh.
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