March madness is a lot of fun. One of the things in my bucket list is to take both Thursday and Friday off during the first week of the tournament and park my rear-end in a Vegas sports book all weekend. Just the ability to wake up and start watching basketball games at 9 AM is priceless. And then the games come at you one after the other. You get a mix of everything. Low scoring basketball followed by high scoring ball. NBA bound stars in one game. No name shorties in another. Upsets followed by blowouts, not necessarily in the games you expect them in or in the ways your bracket want them. It goes on and on and ends past 10 PM Pacific time. What can be better than this? I usually don't have any dog in this fight and ASU rarely gets into this fight anyways. But the fun part is, you can root for a different dog every 2 hours. The highlight of today was a couple of 12 seed over 5 as always. Both Yale and Arkansas-Little Rock won thrilling games and two 11 seeds won as well with Wichita State getting extra credits for beating up UofA. A little disappointing for me as a Pac-12 honk, but I just can't bring myself to cry over the Wildcats losing.
I was impressed watching Brandon Ingram of Duke as I have an added vested interest in following the top NCAA talent this year. With the Phoenix Suns firmly headed to NBA lotteryville, I am motivated to keep an eye on the top college talent coming out. Suns' record is on track for the 3rd pick and it's very crucial they pick up a stud to pair up with Alex Len and Devin Booker who are both giving us Suns fans a lot of hope lately. Of course the ping pong balls will decide that in a couple of months more than anything else. For now, let's hope for more fun on day 2 of the tournament and into the weekend. The weekend also features Golden State Warriors at the San Antonio spurs. If ever there was a time to bust out the overplayed cliche "irresistible force versus an immovable object," this would be it. The dubs and the Spurs are 61-6 and 58-10 as of today and are 32-0 and 34-0 at home respectively. Will the home team Spurs win this game and if they do, how easily do they win? Can't wait to find out amidst all the basketball binge watching on tap this weekend.
I was impressed watching Brandon Ingram of Duke as I have an added vested interest in following the top NCAA talent this year. With the Phoenix Suns firmly headed to NBA lotteryville, I am motivated to keep an eye on the top college talent coming out. Suns' record is on track for the 3rd pick and it's very crucial they pick up a stud to pair up with Alex Len and Devin Booker who are both giving us Suns fans a lot of hope lately. Of course the ping pong balls will decide that in a couple of months more than anything else. For now, let's hope for more fun on day 2 of the tournament and into the weekend. The weekend also features Golden State Warriors at the San Antonio spurs. If ever there was a time to bust out the overplayed cliche "irresistible force versus an immovable object," this would be it. The dubs and the Spurs are 61-6 and 58-10 as of today and are 32-0 and 34-0 at home respectively. Will the home team Spurs win this game and if they do, how easily do they win? Can't wait to find out amidst all the basketball binge watching on tap this weekend.
2 comments:
What a weekend of basketball! Close games, upsets, a 12-point comeback in 34 seconds to avoid an upset and a good match-up between the NBA's top two teams all made for an entertaining stretch of hoops that justified the March Madness moniker!
Not sure if Phoenix wanted to beat Los Angeles but the draft lottery can't come soon enough for both teams!
You bet! Great weekend, but at the end of the day, higher seeds did well. Let's see who win the lottery among Lakers and the Suns.
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