What’s Trending: This is March
Posted by Matt Eisenberg on March 5th, 2018What’s Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Matthew Eisenberg (@matteise) is your weekly host.
Thursday marked the beginning of the best month of the year and no one brings in the third month of the year with more exuberance than Jon Rothstein.
This is March.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) March 1, 2018
Sunday’s Big South championship game reminded us why March is so great…
Nothing like a team punching their ticket to the dance on a buzzer beater pic.twitter.com/sbr4ATrvmw
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) March 4, 2018
When it comes to the “This is March” movement, Rothstein is not alone, though, as Matt Norlander also got into the action…
This is March.
— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) March 1, 2018
The end to Virginia vs. Louisville on Thursday night was a quick reminder as to how anything is possible in March…
No. 1 Virginia was down 4 with under a second to go … and won.
Yep, it’s officially March. pic.twitter.com/yZR0OtFyTv
— ESPN (@espn) March 2, 2018
Of course the wildest ending of the college basketball season happens on the first day of March.
— Jeff Borzello (@jeffborzello) March 2, 2018
While Miami vs. North Carolina came a day before March began, it had a very March ending to it…
AT THE BUZZER!!!
Miami takes down No. 9 North Carolina in Chapel Hill!pic.twitter.com/2fetVAp1l9
— Sporting News (@sportingnews) February 28, 2018
When it comes to March this year, we will hear about quadrant wins and losses with bubble teams and their corresponding seeding. Rob Dauster suggests that end of season quadrant rankings can sometimes be misguided…
When Providence lost to Minnesota at home, the Gophers were a top 25 team. They fell off a cliff because of injuries and Reggie Lynch and, after losing to Rutgers, are a Quadrant 4 loss. Should the fact that Minnesota was good when they won matter? https://t.co/iKZm1UlnUV
— Rob Dauster (@RobDauster) March 1, 2018
A week after it looked like Arizona’s season could be completely falling apart, things reverted back to normal this week…
Arizona winning a Pac-12 title hours after its coach denied a report that he was caught on a wiretap discussing a pay-for-play scheme about his best player — and hours after its second-leading scorer was reinstated after a second failed PED test — is peak college basketball.
— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) March 2, 2018
Sean Miller back. Allonzo Trier back. Arizona back with a win over Stanford. The Wildcats now march towards slaying the elephant in the room — getting to a Final Four.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) March 2, 2018
LIVE LOOK AT THE SEAN MILLER HATERS pic.twitter.com/IQRHBBNjjw
— Mark Titus (@clubtrillion) March 1, 2018
While the regular season did not end the way Chris Beard‘s Texas Tech team would have hoped, he had a special message for the seniors that helped transform the program…
“We’re going to win a Big 12 regular-season championship here one day and I’m going to get a piece of net for you five guys, for everything you all have done. When it happens, I want you to know you’re a big part of it.” – @CoachBeardTTU. #WreckEm #4To1 pic.twitter.com/qNljj5kZYH
— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) March 4, 2018
Senior Day surprises continued this week. Braian Angola of Florida State and Norbertas Giga of Jacksonville State were both given a moment they will never forget…
When you fly in from Colombia to surprise your son on his Senior Day@Angola2411 pic.twitter.com/7aZBEVIYD0
— FSU Men's Hoops (@FSUHoops) March 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/espn/status/968846891994746880
The following tweet translates to “Dunk of the Year Nominee…”
JspsbriwpzlfbrhwowpqlmfntoepqlzbrheowpalfbeipwkBdbd pic.twitter.com/SAqcwUcrqc
— Jared Stansbury (@JaredStansbury) March 3, 2018
