Comments on: Wanted: Some March Madness

By: Don

Don — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:51:50 +0000

Jim, Mizzou made 67%, with two players being at 50% (each 2 of 4). While not spectacular, this hardly qualifies as not able to hit a free throw to save its life. And so you like the Colts. Big whoop. You jumped on the bandwagon like every other hoosier wanna be.

By: boomer

boomer — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:14:03 +0000

Joe, I loved to watch Davidson come within a hair’s breadth of the Final Four. But the tournament is not boring when there are no Davidsons in the mix. There have been compelling games and blowouts, just like every year. The only difference is that there are no Cinderellas. The whining has been all too predictable.

By: Jim Buzinski

Jim Buzinski — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:20:09 +0000

“Steve and Scott, Buzinski doesn’t care about Mizzou and Memphis, because they aren’t on one of the coasts.”

I love the Indy Colts, and last I checked don’t think they played near an ocean.

I did not find the Memphis-Mizzou game compelling. Sloppy is more like it, with neither team able to hit a free throw to save its life.

We have had 60 tournament games and only one (Villanova-Pitt) that anyone will remember in a week.

By: Joe Guckin

Joe Guckin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:34:58 +0000

To consider a team that surprises everyone, including themselves, and goes farther than they or anyone else would have expected, a freak show is just a sign of…well, some combination of any of these: heartlessness, arrogance, snobbery…

By: boomer

boomer — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:07:31 +0000

I posted about this ridiculous complaint in the forums. Either you want to watch high-level basketball or you want a freak show. Apparently, most people want the freak show.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:47:38 +0000

Steve and Scott, Buzinski doesn’t care about Mizzou and Memphis, because they aren’t on one of the coasts. If the game had gone into triple overtime he still wouldn’t have thought it was interesting. This site is so damned east coast/west coast oriented it makes me sick.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:12:19 +0000

Well, I am sooo sick of the same teams in it every friggin year… The Villanova-Pitt game was great but other than that, sick of all the same ole same oles…. UNC? Duke? Kansas? Mich St? UCOnn? Who cares!

By: Joe Guckin

Joe Guckin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:43:45 +0000

Hope you watched Nova-Pitt, then.

By: Jim Buzinski

Jim Buzinski — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:20:34 +0000

Yes, Ken, 3 of the 4 games tonight were blowouts. Only MSU-Kansas had any drama. This tourney continues to stink.

By: Ken in MS

Ken in MS — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:15:50 +0000

Let me put it this way. Tonight I turned the games on at 6 and by 8 I was watching the Division II Women’s basketball championship game. And it was better than any game I’ve seen during this entire tournament, men or women.

I’m like you. There’s no madness anymore. Big East, Big 12, Big 10, blah blah blah. All teams look alike and play alike. Coaches do nothing but yell at the officials. The officials have let the game become more like football. And the announcers/broadcasters have turned it into American Idol.

I will follow it . . . just not madly.