College Basketball by the Tweets: NCAA Tournament Thursday/Friday
Posted by Nick Fasulo on March 23rd, 2013
Thanks to Kentucky’s follies, we have to open this up by paying a bit of attention to the NIT.
I’m sure Cal will encourage Harrow to go pro in something other than sports.
— Mark Ennis (@Mengus22) March 20, 2013
OK we good? Got that out of your system? We can’t let them completely hijack this post. Moving on.
Georgetown is a Joke
In a year where we were all afraid that there would be absolutely insanity, where the unpredictable would reign supreme, and your bracket would be in the toilet by Friday afternoon, we actually got something we can rely on: John Thompson III laying an egg in the NCAA Tournament.
Fact = Hoyas have lost 4 years in a row to a DOUBLE DIGIT SEED!FGCU – NCST -VCU -OHIO =OUCH
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) March 23, 2013
Seriously. Vitale may be the master of the obvious, but it there are not enough ALL CAPS on your keyboard to use when talking about how bad Georgetown has been in recent NCAA Tournaments.
It’s going to be interesting to watch Georgetown fans document their lunch when all they can eat is a bowl of failure and tears.
— TheUConnBlog (@theuconnblog) March 23, 2013
FGCU’s coach married a hot woman that he met while he was working on Wall Street? He’s living the Georgetown dream!
— Bobby Big Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) March 23, 2013
“You know, I also got into Stanford.” – every Georgetown grad tonight
— sir broosk (@celebrityhottub) March 23, 2013
“I don’t wanna be the number 1 pick”- Otto Porter and Marcus Smart
— Stannis Baratheon (@actionpollock) March 23, 2013
Something gotta change
— Austin Freeman (@_SugarFree5) March 23, 2013
Following the loss, many Syracuse fans shared a beer, and then a huge, breathless belly laugh.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
— Hoya Suxa (@HoyaSuxa) March 23, 2013
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA [lost to a school that probably doesn’t exist] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
— Hoya Suxa (@HoyaSuxa) March 23, 2013
[breathes]
— Hoya Suxa (@HoyaSuxa) March 23, 2013
But on the other side of the upset, Florida Gulf Coast University, which has only been eligible for the NCAA Tournament for four years, and was founded in 1991 (think about that, very bizarre) celebrated while Twitter played jokes on their “famous alum” and a made up mission statement.
Timeline’s full of folks mocking Florida GC. Seems like the target should be the high seed they’re crushing.
— Gregg Doyel (@GreggDoyelCBS) March 23, 2013
The Eagles received a lot of low blows last night. We won’t share those here. They won; the Hoyas lost, thus the joke is on the underachieving, established basketball program.
Marshall Henderson Wins a Tournament Game
There was no way Ole Miss could knock off Wisconsin. Not when you give Bo Ryan five nights to prepare for a team that was up and down all season and heavily reliant on an incredibly fiery and enigmatic sharp-shooter. The odds were stacked against the Rebels, or so we thought. Somehow, Andy Kennedy ousted Ryan from the tournament, and the Marshall Henderson Reality Show continued, for better or worse.
LOVE MY TEAMMATES!! BRING ON WHOEVER NEXT!! #HOTTYTODDY #STAPLESCENTERBOUND
— marshall henderson (@NativeFlash22) March 22, 2013
But a lot of people are pretty ticked about all this.
Marshall Henderson struggles with context clues, deductive reasoning and just learning in general.
— Jared Speckman (@Speck60) March 22, 2013
Twitter isn’t for everyone. Immature compulsives like Marshall Henderson? Twitter’s not for you, son.
— Gregg Doyel (@GreggDoyelCBS) March 22, 2013
Marshall Henderson mocks fake Ryan Harrow account. Marshall tends to focus on stuff that isn’t real. For example, his NBA prospects.
— Not Jerry Tipton (@NotJerryTipton) March 22, 2013
Marshall Henderson is going to make a great barback in Panama City after basketball.
— BKM (@SAECATFAN) March 23, 2013
Following the game, and a trip to a Kansas City watering hole, Henderson took a fake Ryan Harrow Twitter handle to task, looking quite silly in the process.
Here are the tweets (now deleted) in which Marshall Henderson talked trash to the fake Ryan Harrow account: kentuckysportsradio.com/?p=130198
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) March 22, 2013
I guess, in a way, this is like beating your pretend in basketball when you were five and then spitting game at him, or it. Or something.
A Pac – 12 (10) Renaissance
Is the Pac-12 back? Well, UCLA didn’t quite get the memo, but on Thursday night Oregon and Cal showed they were far better than #12 seeds, dismantling Oklahoma State and UNLV, respectively, while Arizona quelled any upset chatter from Belmont. Everyone out west is happy!
Amazing that the [verifies name] PAAC-Twelve is 3-0 vs heroic power teams. Forget cinderella teams, we may have a cinderella conference!
— Dan Rubenstein (@DanRubenstein) March 22, 2013
You know this all ends with UCLA being the only Pac-12 team to lose in the first round
— Aaron Gernes (@aarongernes) March 22, 2013
“Hey, Selection Committee, (two middle fingers)” — The Pac 12
— Justin Silverstein (@jsilverstein08) March 22, 2013
Meantime I believe that is Pac 12 commissioner Larry Scott saying neener neener to selection committee.
— Dana O’Neil (@ESPNDanaOneil) March 22, 2013
My “disrespect the Pac-12 at every turn” bracket strategy really just isn’t paying off right now.
— David Ubben (@davidubben) March 22, 2013
A Mountain West Meltdown
Conversely, this was supposed to be the Mountain West Conference’s breakout year on the hardwood. But the Tournament has a way of eviscerating regular season success from our memories, and now the MW can be found in the doghouse for the foreseeable future, as the league saw three of its five NCAA teams fall in the first weekend, including Final Four threat New Mexico which lost to Hahvurd.
Steve Alford’s agent looks like a genius right now. Getting the 10-year deal done before this debacle.
— Ben Weixlmann (@BWeixScout) March 22, 2013
Man, if Missouri wasn’t Charmin soft, we could’ve all spent tomorrow crushing the MWC.
— Mark Ennis (@Mengus22) March 22, 2013
What an epic gag by UNM. Unreal.
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) March 22, 2013
New Mexico, one of those teams no one talks about, showing why no one talks about them.
— J.A. Adande (@jadande) March 22, 2013
“Wait, I thought the Mountain West was really good this year.” – Morons
— Mike Welch (@MikeWelchSR) March 22, 2013
Ugh. How embarrassing. Hope you’re commiserating with the Big East.
A Sportswriter, A Nosy Mascot, A Civil Rights Activist
That is all.
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— jmartpolitico (@jmartpolitico) March 22, 2013
Oh, and this too. Yummy.
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— Outback Steakhouse (@Outback) March 20, 2013
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