NIT, college basketball, massachusetts minutemen, ohio state buckeyes

Finally, Massholes Have Something to Celebrate

As we wait for the Final Four to finally kick off on Saturday, the gang at Storming the Floor are amusing themselves with the championship-like substance contained in the NIT and CBI post-season tournaments.

NIT Semifinals, Madison Square Garden

Massachusetts 78, Florida 66. No 2 ½-peat for the Gators. The UMass Minutemen spoiled the NCAA tournament rematch by overcoming a nine-point halftime deficit in convincing fashion. New York native Dante Milligan had 17 points, 12 rebounds, and 3 blocks in front of his family and helped the Minutemen move on to face Ohio State. This is so nice for the downtrodden people of Boston, who just haven't had much in the way of sports triumphs to root for recently.

Ohio State 81, Ole Miss 69. The Buckeyes, on the other hand, actually get another shot at winning a postseason tournament. Jamar Butler and Evan Turner each scored 17 points for Ohio State. Ole Miss was toast from the get-go, as they managed to tie the game at eight-all with 14:58 left in the first half before OSU blew the game wide open. It'll be Buckeyes vs. Minutemen for the NIT championship tomorrow in a nice little appetizer for the main event.

CBI Championship Series

In order to explain this mess, I'd have to take a serious interest in it, and I'm not sure I can do that. Suffice to say that, rather than playing one championship game nobody really cares about, the brain trust behind the inaugural CBI decided the last two teams standing should play a three-game series to decide which team will be the answer to a future killer sports trivia question. C-USA also-ran Tulsa currently has a one-game advantage after beating MVC entrant Bradley 73-68 on Monday night. Bradley has a chance to even the score tonight in Peoria, but I think I speak for all of us when I say that I hope they have too much pride to subject us to more of this charade.

11:45 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By storming the floor
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Dead Wrestlers Society at 11:55 AM on 04/02/08
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UMass went 12 minutes without a FG and they still win by twelve. That must have been one ugly game.
ghostsoftheSCupcountry at 11:56 AM on 04/02/08
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What the HELL is a CBI?
Carlton_Whitfield at 11:57 AM on 04/02/08
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Wait, are you making that CBI stuff up, STF?
Dead Wrestlers Society at 11:57 AM on 04/02/08
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@Carlton_Whitfield: LOL!
tater at 11:57 AM on 04/02/08
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NIT Champ...hmmmm the cynic in me wants to see OSU lose another championship but the fear of Massholes bragging about their school winning something leads me to believe we should cancel this game altogether.
Civil Negligence at 11:58 AM on 04/02/08
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@ghostsoftheSCupcountry: One of the smartest ideas to hit the world of sports: let's charge basketball programs to enter a 3rd tier tournament!
MeSoHornsby at 11:59 AM on 04/02/08
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@tater: Don't worry, Massholes don't give a shit about college sports.
UpstateUnderdog at 11:59 AM on 04/02/08
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Amherst is along way from Boston. People in Boston don't believe western MA even exists.
goathair at 11:59 AM on 04/02/08
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Um....ass?
goathair at 11:59 AM on 04/02/08
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Um...ass?
ghostsoftheSCupcountry at 12:01 PM on 04/02/08
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In Umass's defense, they did give us Dr. J...and if they knock off Ohio State, it'll be one more title that Calipari has.
ILovePaleHoseandPaleHos at 12:03 PM on 04/02/08
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@Civil Negligence: Yet they pulled it off.

Step 3: Profit?
BigTenObsession at 12:04 PM on 04/02/08
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What does this have to do with Pedro's hammy?
parker91 at 12:05 PM on 04/02/08
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The CBI will go the way of the XFL, one and done.
HebrewHammer at 12:05 PM on 04/02/08
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CBI:Basketball::San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl:Football
roland_t_flakfizer at 12:05 PM on 04/02/08
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I'm just glad Virginia lost in the CBI. I was terrified that they were going to win it, which would've caused me to burn my Bryant Stith signed poster.
VTBen at 12:05 PM on 04/02/08
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I was bummed we didn't get to see a Florida-OSU NIT national championship game... hopefully these schools will be paired up for the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl next football season.

Also, it looks like Tom Crean and his MILFy wife are going to IU next year.
LeagueofShadows at 12:08 PM on 04/02/08
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Expect pink UMass hats to sell considerably less than pink Sox hats.
Cowboycane at 12:08 PM on 04/02/08
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@roland_t_flakfizer: Ugh. Welcome to my world.
Chaunceyshammy at 12:10 PM on 04/02/08
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cant believe I'm gonna say this...GO Bucks

/burning in hell
Dead Account at 12:13 PM on 04/02/08
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Threadjack

Is it just me or is Gawker IT at it again?

/Threadjack
7-8 Deville at 12:15 PM on 04/02/08
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if the CBI leads to a real expansion of the NCAA Tourney, I'm all for it.
Farneyismycopilot at 12:21 PM on 04/02/08
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Hooray! Another championship game!
/still pissed about the last year and a half
Spaceman Bill Leah at 12:29 PM on 04/02/08
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@UpstateUnderdog: It does exist unless I grew up in imaginary fairy land. In other news, my mother is way, way too excited about this. She actually called me to tell me about it. Like it matters.
Barry Lutz at 12:34 PM on 04/02/08
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You may not think it is fair, but it has to be said: the SEC is no longer a clutch NIT conference.
TerminatorX1 at 12:41 PM on 04/02/08
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Good old Umass. Where my time as a freshman was the greatest 3 years of my life.

Fuck you Marcus Camby!
PrinceMyshkin at 12:45 PM on 04/02/08
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@7-8 Deville: Really?
Len Bias Cocaine Surplus at 01:05 PM on 04/02/08
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-flips car-

-lights car on fire-
Contemptster at 04:43 PM on 04/02/08
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As a UMass alum I can tell you no one in Boston gives a shit about UMass, especially in the state senate. They're all BC fuck heads.

/venting
lavaughn at 06:35 PM on 04/02/08
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As a current Tulsa grad student, the only thing that the extra tournament gave us was even worse parking on campus. Thanks! We're mediocre! When does the shuttle run again?!