What’s Trending: It’s March!
Posted by Griffin Wong on March 4th, 2016What’s Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Griffin Wong (@griffwong90) is your weekly host.
Indiana Takes the Big Ten
With its win on Tuesday night at Iowa, Indiana secured the outright Big Ten Championship. After a troublesome 5-3 start to the season, head coach Tom Crean‘s future in Bloomington was questionable at best. A steady resurgence in the second half of the year led to a conference title. Crean deserves that water shower!
They were waiting for Tom Crean.
And they erupted when he entered the locker room
Congrats, again, @IndianaMBB! https://t.co/zidAv83j0E
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) March 2, 2016
What a year for @IndianaMBB to win outright title even after losing James Blackmon. Tom Crean coach of the year lock.
— Tom Dienhart (@BTNTomDienhart) March 2, 2016
Things Bleak For BC
After a heartbreaking loss to NC State this week, Boston College finds itself on the brink of ignominious history. With a loss on Saturday against Clemson, the Eagles would become the first school in ACC history to go winless in both basketball and football in the same season. At least the campus is pretty?
Boston College was seconds away from its first ACC win of the season. Then this happened: https://t.co/lQMX4gFfYK https://t.co/BW0WAALybE
— SB Nation (@SBNation) March 3, 2016
Boston College's LEAD (13 points) is more than it scored in five of eight ACC football games
— Lauren Brownlow (@lebrownlow) March 3, 2016
What Happens on Twitter Stays on Twitter
Well, not exactly. Just ask Minnesota freshman Kevin Dorsey. Dorsey, along with his teammates Nate Mason and Dupree McBrayer, has been suspended for the rest of the season after a sexually explicit video appeared on his Twitter account. Although both the video and his account were promptly deleted, the long-term damage was already done. Despite later reports that Dorsey’s phone was stolen (and he therefore could not have posted the video himself), the suspension will hold for the time being.
Richard Pitino offered no details on suspension of Mason, McBrayer & Dorsey. But said this after #Gophers loss at IL pic.twitter.com/tpQazTeAvu
— Marcus R. Fuller (@GophersNow) February 29, 2016
Minnesota, 8-20 w/2 games left, decides to expand suspension of 3 players from 1 game to remainder of season. That call was a lay-up.
— John Walters (@jdubs88) March 1, 2016
Believe it or Not…
It’s already Championship Week! Woot! So far the America East, Atlantic Sun, Big South, MAAC, MVC, NEC, Ohio Valley and Patriot League Tournaments have begun, with several more starting over the weekend. Oh, and the Ivy League is once again coming down to the wire. Championship Week really is the beginning of March Madness, and we couldn’t be more excited that it’s finally here!
March Madness is great, but as @kenpomeroy brilliantly explains, the real beauty is in championship week. https://t.co/asknjP9C2n
— Troy Machir (@TroyMachir) March 1, 2016
Championship Week is America's only perfect sports tradition. @CardChronicle breaks it down https://t.co/M9GmQGHXN2 pic.twitter.com/WtXdSY5FGc
— SB Nation CBB (@SBNationCBB) March 2, 2016
Quick-Hitters
-Kansas forward Jamari Traylor with the posterization on the alley-oop!
As it should https://t.co/aozYn98K1r RT @cstonehoops I’m pretty sure Jamari Traylor’s dunk still has Austin in a daze.
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) March 1, 2016
-Iowa State senior star Georges Niang catches Oklahoma State sleeping:
lol nobody realized his missed free throw was a live ball so he rebounded his own shot and dunked it https://t.co/gBw0VIYfDS
— Meredith Morrow (@MeredithMorrow) March 1, 2016
-Oregon’s Elgin Cook with the tomahawk posterization!
https://twitter.com/Pac12Networks/status/704124535600242689
-Oregon State’s Gary Payton II weaves through the defense before throwing one down!
Everyday is #LeapDay for GP2!! #GoBeavs #RockTheRim https://t.co/WA0qqx8UvM
— Oregon St. SPORTalk (@SPORTalkBeavers) March 1, 2016
-One more time: heartbreak city for Boston College on this Maverick Rowan buzzer-beater:
THE BUZZER BEATER!@PackMensBball picks up the win on THIS shot!https://t.co/8ooSSMqleS
— ACC Digital Network (@theACCDN) March 3, 2016
-Vermont’s Cam Ward shows off unlimited range on this first half buzzer-beater:
Buzzer beater from the logo. https://t.co/HGUpRmwO6N
— ESPN College BBall (@ESPNCBB) March 3, 2016
-Iowa State’s Abdel Nader with the absolutely devastating dunk on Oklahoma State:
Retweet if you liked this dunk by Abdel Nader last night #CyclONEnationhttps://t.co/MJtPj4QCBp
— Iowa State Athletics (@CycloneATH) March 1, 2016
-What a chase-down rejection from West Virginia freshman Esa Ahmad!
He just didn't see it coming. https://t.co/ILRA8IgG1R
— ESPN College BBall (@ESPNCBB) March 3, 2016
