College Basketball by the Tweets: Tom Izzo, Marcus Paige, TV Ted and More…
Posted by Nick Fasulo (@nickfasuloSBN) on March 4th, 2014Nick Fasulo is an RTC correspondent who writes the column College Basketball By the Tweets, a look at the world of college hoops through the prism of everyone’s favorite social media platform. You can find him on Twitter @nickfasuloSBN.
Congratulations, everyone, we’ve made it to the month of March, which some people are unofficially just straight up calling “Izzo.”
It's March. @MSU_Basketball pic.twitter.com/UaYM5BCsuO
— Kevin Pauga (@KevinPauga) March 1, 2014
I guess if you’ve reached the NCAA Tournament in each of the last 16 years, including six Final Four appearances as the head coach of one team, you can pretty much do whatever you want.
Marcus Paige
There’s perhaps no non-freshman player in the country who has improved as much as Marcus Paige since November. The slender point guard is the clear-cut leader of this year’s Tar Heels, and his play against Triangle rival NC State last week proved as much.
How do you give Paige his left hand?
— Michael DeCourcy (@tsnmike) February 27, 2014
Had to be the single most important item on scouting report. Paige is a stud.
— Michael DeCourcy (@tsnmike) February 27, 2014
Marcus Paige went to the rim in a down one situation! Look at that! Finally some smart basketball.
— Brian Otskey (@botskey) February 27, 2014
That game will go down in history as the least ability shown by two coaches to get the ball out of the ONLY scorers' hands for each team.
— Chris Littmann (@chrislittmann) February 27, 2014
Um …. .Did N.C. State realize that the dude who'd dropped 30 in the second half was probably going to take the last shot?
— Myron Medcalf (@MedcalfByESPN) February 27, 2014
And then a few nights later, Paige sealed a victory for UNC on the defensive end.