2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament

[PT7]

Definitely X2!

Sister Jean has become one of my favorite personalities .... the players all treat her with the utmost respect and seem to really care about her

[JEBar]

Florida State and Michigan have both looked sloppy throughout the first half ....

[PT7]

I'm pretty certain Texas Tech is glad the lost game is over.
They struggled a lot in the paint, and especially with their lay ups.
Tough day for TT, great day for Villanova with their 79-51 win.

Three of four now in. The Alamodome court is waiting...

[PT7]

Tight game at half time.
Duke 36 - KU 33

20 minutes left to determine the Final Four.

[JEBar]

if the rankings are right and with this game they appear to be, the game should go right down to the wire

[PT7]

I went to Palm Sunday evening service when there were 6 minutes left in the KU-Duke game. So recorded the rest of the game to my DVR. Just finished watching the end of it, and the OT win by KU was a real nail biter (at least for a KU alum)!! And throughout the battle there were a ton of lead changes. JEBar was spot on about the wire....

KS wheat has waved once again -- > KU 85 - Duke 81.

The Four are set. Should be some more good ball playing at the end of the Road.

[BigAl52]

PT you have some Jayhawks now to route for. Beatin Duke in OT there probably slamin some beers in Lawrence right now.

[PT7]

No doubt about that, BigAl. I'm close enough to Lawrence to almost hear the hoopla.

But this win heading to the Final Four is nothing compared to a championship win. In 1988 when Danny Manning & team took the national trophy, I had graduated the year before with my M.A. degree from KU, and was working on-campus in the Alumni Association. Talk about exploding bedlam in that office for I don't remember how long! Seems like almost every alum in the country was calling in for this or that. I do recall some of my co-workers coming in the office the morning after and telling stories about how it was so noisy everywhere in Lawrence, that it was very hard to sleep the night of that win. Being on a college campus with any NCAA championship is some kind of experience!

[TRock]

I want to apologize to any Michigan fans, but I am pulling for Loyola and Sister Jean this evening. Go Loyola.

[PT7]

I'd say you and many, many other folk are also pulling for Sister Jean and her boys!

Wow, 29-22 at half with Loyola on top!!!! Lots of good ball playing. The two Loyola runs (15-3 w/in 6 minutes, followed by 9-0 w/in 2-1/2 minutes) were fun to watch. Michigan's Wagner is playing strong, but the call on his goal-tending was really quite obvious....haven't seen that called so easily and clearly in quite a while.

~~20 minutes until we find out the end of this first semi-final story...

I want to apologize to any Michigan fans, but I am pulling for Loyola and Sister Jean this evening. Go Loyola.

[PT7]

Whoa....my NCAA free tournament video streaming pass just expired with about six minutes left before the end of the Loyola-MI game. I just had to google my cell phone to find out that MI won this semi-final.

So....I don't have cable tv, and now internet NCAA streaming is gone the way of the black hole, too.

I wish I didn't have to miss seeing my alma mater, KU, play in the next semi-final, and then the championship game on Monday evening. Ah, such is the way of it.

Added after game ~~~> Well, when the above happened and I lost my internet viewing of all the "March Madness," I got into the recliner to watch some tv. Fell asleep (that's what the recliner "sleep" position does to a person), and when I woke up, checked the KU-Villanova final score. Looks like my basketball season is over as well as my alma mater's: Villa 95 -- KU 79. The 40-minute "ouch." Anyway, it was a really fun tournament this year, with a lot of upsets and great ball playing. So until next year.....