What’s Trending: Week of Wild Endings
Posted by Matt Eisenberg on December 18th, 2017What’s Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Matthew Eisenberg (@matteise) is your weekly host.
This week’s Whats Trending starts with a look back to last Sunday. After Arizona State beat Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse, Arizona State assistant athletic director (and friend of RTC) Doug Tammaro realizes that his wallet is about to be $500 lighter…
That moment when you might have had too much wine in Italy in August and you tell your Sun Devil daughter if we beat Kansas you will give her $500 to spend at mall (and forgot she had it on video). pic.twitter.com/Aw9HlGnPu8
— Doug Tammaro (@DougTammaro) December 11, 2017
Is it a block? Is it a charge? With two seconds left on the clock, a whistle helps save the day for Wisconsin against Western Kentucky.
Great players make great plays. Smart players make smart plays.@braddavi34 takes a charge & hits a late free throw for the @BadgerMBB victory!! #Badgers pic.twitter.com/l7rtQCXGCl
— FOX Sports Wisconsin (@fswisconsin) December 14, 2017
Bill Raftery was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame this week. Few people add as much to the color commentary of a game as Raf.
Legendary college basketball analyst Bill Raftery accepts his place in the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame the only way he knows how: with a spectacular series of stories! #SBHOF #sportsbiz pic.twitter.com/ArBvJE9NsR
— Sports Video Group (@sportsvideo) December 13, 2017
Lonnie “Sky”-Walker IV with some extra “force’ behind this dunk…
Good Heavens!
What a putback dunk by @CanesHoops' Lonnie Walker IV. pic.twitter.com/QsWW9g3gsw
— CBS Sports Network (@CBSSportsNet) December 16, 2017
This story of a group of students doing something for their teacher is told perfectly by Yahoo’s Jeff Eisenberg.
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/941790412947296258
Intrastate rivals, overtime, Gus Johnson… Indiana’s win against Notre Dame had it all…
https://twitter.com/BigTenNetwork/status/942156535408443392
St. Bonaventure‘s Matt Mobley, the team’s leading scorer, went scoreless for 39+ minutes against Vermont over the weekend. By holding Mobley to just two shot attempts, Vermont had a 78-77 lead with just a few seconds left… and then Vermont forgot about Mobley.
GAME. WINNER. pic.twitter.com/HUI3AEgc2E
— Bonnies MBB (@BonniesMBB) December 16, 2017
