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The Audacity Of Hoop

Barnacle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:52:03 EST

I don't know why Bill Clinton would have been at the 1993 National Championship... he's not a Tar Heel fan as far as I know. Now, 1994 is another story altogether, that's when the Razorbacks beat Duke.

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Wyshynski — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:46:53 EST

I just want to say that I'm stunned this headline wasn't already used by Dave Zirin.

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Quick Draw — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:20:44 EST

@Storming the Floor: -1 for spelling "alliteration" wrong yesterday. "Waffles" still better than "Flapjack".

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Creativenamethatmakesyougiggle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:57:44 EST

A10 catholic schools: Dayton, Xavier, SLU, St Josephs, Duquesne, La Salle, Fordham, St Bonaventure

Only 3 of those schools are consistently good at basketball though.

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Clare — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:50:14 EST

Holy crap, I've been to Punahou! I went snorkeling there on vacation last year! It's beautiful!

Um, in the interest of being on-topic...even with Dickie V prattling away, the Duke/UNC game put me to sleep last night.

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Christ Sabo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:42:45 EST

Mike Huckabee: Led the 2004 Run for Christ Marathon (No Heathens Allowed)

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VTBen — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:32:31 EST

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UpstateUnderdog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:31:45 EST

@Chamomiles Davis: @Im a people person. Who drinks.: if my math is right the Big East is 50% catholic and the A-10 is 57% Catholic (8 out of 14 teams).

great idea about the Catholic school pre-season tournament. you could throw in Gonzaga or St. Mary's from the West Coast.

UpstateUnderdog

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HugsFromHarold — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:24:27 EST

Barack Obama
Played JV basketball at Occidental College, before transferring to Columbia.
Oxy currently ranked #20 in D3.

Barack, the Best Candidate for College Hoops!

HugsFromHarold

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Im a people person. Who drinks. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:06:43 EST

@UpstateUnderdog: It has to be at least 50%. I'd love to see a pre-season Catholic school tournament. Between the MAAC, A-10 and Big East, along with some of the smaller conferences in the North East, you could have a different field each year. The basketball would likely be pretty entertaining - plus, it would allow plenty of alterboy joke comments on the post covering it here. Win-win.

Im a people person. Who drinks.

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Chamomiles Davis — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:06:05 EST

@UpstateUnderdog: The Big East has Villanova, Notre Dame, Marquette, Seton Hall, Georgetown, DePaul, St. John's, and Providence. Half of our conference is made up of Catholic schools.

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Chamomiles Davis — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:03:28 EST

@UkraineNotWeak: That is correct. At Villanova, we only got scholarships for, you know, good grades and stuff like that.

Chamomiles Davis

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OchentaYcinco — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:56:23 EST

I'm going to the Pitt-WVU game tonight. God do I hope Bob Huggins is wearing the pimp suit again.

Hillary Clinton
• Could do wonders for the women's college basketball game.

Like bringing Pokey Chatman back to my team. Rawr!

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Storming the Floor — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:54:01 EST

@UpstateUnderdog: Yeah, I wrote that last night, hasn't that caught on yet?

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UpstateUnderdog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:53:52 EST

@dumpdolan: don't forget Sid Luckman

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Jack Cobra — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:53:50 EST

@Storming the Floor: Yeah, his computer is quicker than mine.....

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44 in a Row — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:52:28 EST

Obama went to Columbia, McCain went to the USNA. Not the strongest of college basketball programs.

Whatever, man. We only lost to Villanova by 16 points, and we have an in-conference win. That's a successful season by my standards.

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UpstateUnderdog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:52:10 EST

@Storming the Floor: that's why they need nicknames like Flapjack

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DumpDolan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:52:04 EST

@UpstateUnderdog: but but, Marcellus Wiley!

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Storming the Floor — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:51:31 EST

@Jack Cobra: I'm thinking two or three more ought to do it. I feared your wrath once S2N pointed it out.

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Storming the Floor — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:50:24 EST

@Signal to Noise: That's not nitpicking - that's a valid correction. You'll see as the days go on that I often reverse names that sound alike. Guys named Smith are a real challenge.

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UpstateUnderdog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:49:30 EST

@Im a people person. Who drinks.: nice A-10 battle last night. btw, percentage wise I think the A-10 has the most Catholic schools after the MAAC.

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stealofthedraft — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:46:58 EST

@Phony Gwynn:
It could be Norm Cow, who actually went to Punahou. Or Michelle Wie...

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UkraineNotWeak — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:46:14 EST

@Im a people person. Who drinks.:

I believe the person in the Hawk suit gets a scholarship

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UpstateUnderdog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:45:56 EST

Who is recruiting Kevin Hart ?

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BigTenObsession — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:45:10 EST

@Phony Gwynn:

That's obviously The Rock. They don't all look alike, you know! What are you, from Boston?

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PrehistoricMartyball — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:44:53 EST

John Amaechi shooting freethrows from the charity stripe = Welfare Queen.

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Im a people person. Who drinks. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:44:19 EST

Was at a game last night - the St Joe's mascot flapping it's wings the entire game (including half time) was strangely hypnotizing. Not sure why anyone would want that job.
Also hypnotizing - seeing the first triple double in my alma mater's history.

Im a people person. Who drinks.

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UpstateUnderdog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:44:05 EST

@dumpdolan: sorry guys, remind me not to bring up Columbia football.

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PeteJayhawk — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:43:20 EST

WE GO PLAY HOOP

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Tuffy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:43:16 EST

who picks all #1 seeds?

A winner. That's who.

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DumpDolan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:42:48 EST

@UpstateUnderdog: You'll have to content with me and 44 in a Row on that one. He also could have coached the University of Chicago basketball team more effectively.

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Phony Gwynn — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:42:24 EST

Is that Timmy Chang behind Obama? Everybody thought he was just a system QB, but his numbers look more impressive now that we know he put them up in his 40s.

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BigTenObsession — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:41:46 EST

@UpstateUnderdog:
Shh! 44 in a Row will hear you.

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Jack Cobra — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:41:32 EST

Jesus Christ, Angevine...it's Scott Drew!! Scott Drew! Not Bryce! How many emails do I have to send you about the guy before you get his name right?

Jack Cobra

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UkraineNotWeak — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:41:21 EST

Rudy Giuliani used to average 9 points and 11 rebounds a game in high school.

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UpstateUnderdog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:40:53 EST

Obama went to Columbia, McCain went to the USNA. Not the strongest of college basketball programs.

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Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah! — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:38:36 EST

Mike Gravel told young Jimmy Naismith to get off his lawn and take his peach basket elsewhere.

Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!

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Signal to Noise — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:38:11 EST

Sorry to be a nitpicker, but Scott Drew is the Baylor coach...Bryce Drew is still an assistant at Valpo, I think.

Mitt Romney keeps trying to change up his game to fit the newest style, but he keeps getting away from what he's good at (if anything).

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Schluby — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:37:44 EST

Ummm...I'll take you there...yeah you, in the middle.

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UkraineNotWeak — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:36:29 EST

Judging from the photo, Griffith Dunne was his coach.

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jwaves2007 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:35:56 EST

Bad News Bears 4...the bears play basketball.

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GreatOdensRaven — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:35:24 EST

Man, Helen Hunt could shoot the jay at Punahou like nobody's business.

And is that guy on the middle-left a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome?

GreatOdensRaven

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Chamomiles Davis — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:33:41 EST

@UkraineNotWeak: It reminds me of the "1" side of a die.

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UkraineNotWeak — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:32:39 EST

Looks like white boy bingo with a free play spot in the middle.

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Chamomiles Davis — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:32:38 EST

@Gourmet Spud: +1.

How did they manage to airbrush out at least four pencil-thin moustaches from that photo?

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Stev D — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:31:26 EST

Dennis Kucinich rode Man-O-War to a triple crown.

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the earl of weaver — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:31:11 EST

Hillary is also a big fan of Pokey Chatman

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BigTenObsession — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:30:46 EST

Kim Jong Il is the Nate Robinson of dictators - you don't want to play on his team since he's a ball-hog, but he will kill with his dunks in a game of horse.

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Doyle McPoyle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:29:55 EST

@Gourmet Spud: Took me a second, but excellent.

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The Gizmo from Pismo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:29:07 EST

@Gourmet Spud: that was so evil i laughed for 3 minutes

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David Hume — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:28:40 EST

*Hillary Clinton

Lets her man score at will.

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Schluby — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:28:14 EST

Guess which kid was the star of the team?

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Carlton_Whitfield — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:26:58 EST

I didn't know that young, polo shirt-clad Bill Richardson was coaching that team. Small world in politics.

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MerryLander — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:26:41 EST

SEC is Resurrection Central

Except for the beloved Commodores, who started dropping games like Pedro drops roosters once conference play started.

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Gourmet Spud — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:25:04 EST

John McCain

• Poor shotblocker

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The New Math: 86=1 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:24:33 EST

May be able to revitalize Illini hoops

As if Leitch needed any more reasons to like Obama.

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UpstateUnderdog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:24:09 EST

Lots of WNBA fans love Hillary.

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PrehistoricMartyball — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:24:09 EST

Mike Huckabee would likely re-align the possession arrow so it pointed up or down, depending on whether or not the players in question had accepted Jeebus as their personal savior.

PrehistoricMartyball

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McCroskey — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:23:29 EST

Man, The White Shadow was an awesome show.

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David Hume — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:22:59 EST

*Mitt Romney
Went to Stanford and BYU, both of which will likely be dancing...

Which, in a cruel twist, he is banned from doing.

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The Diesel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:21:57 EST

Auburn has the smoothest and coldest bourbon in all the land.
/Billy Clyde

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JimmyChitwood — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:21:44 EST

Was Eric Gordon also looking at Western University?

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stealofthedraft — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:21:32 EST

Also, the Gophers are going to the NIT, baby!

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The Diesel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:20:20 EST

no, no, no, meh...maybe, no, no, no, no, add alcohol and possibly, no.

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Big Tuna — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:20:17 EST

Hey look! It's Martin Lawre--

Phew! Almost got ahead of myself there...

Big Tuna