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Not a college hoops fan myself, I just enjoy watching the aftermath of the riots at MSU.
Posted on 03/27/2009 8:54:50 PM PDT by BOBWADE
Spartans KO ChampsMichigan State is back in the Elite Eight, ending Kansas' defense Friday night 67-62.
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Quite the finish....
kept me on the edge of my seat.
I am an MU fan so I really don’t like Kansas much but was kind of rooting for them a while since they are big twelve. In the end I found myself hoping they got beat. lol.
Rivals to the end I guess.
Its nice to see the Big Ten come thru atleast to the Elite Eight. If Louisville plays on sunday the way they played tonight I don’t think MSU can win. But it was nice to see Michigan State avenge that 1986 game against Kansas.
great game by Spartina.
Win or lose....it was a great game.
Howse Obee’s bracket doin’????
;-)
My thoughts exactly. The missing 30 seconds, the missed free throws by that poor freshman (Hastings?)...
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said his wife, Mickie, felt the need to send a text message to Reggie Love, President Barack Obama’s personal aide, on Thursday to clarify a statement her husband had made on Wednesday that “the economy is something that he should focus on, probably, more than the brackets.”
When the media ran with Coach K saying the president should focus more on the economy than filling out a tournament bracket, Mickie Krzyzewski ran interference.
Krzyzewski said the text message said, “Coach didn’t mean that. This is what he meant. And I hope he wasn’t offended.”
Love, according to Krzyzewski, sent a text back that said the president wasn’t offended, “though some of the staff was concerned because they have to always be concerned. President Obama thinks Coach K’s all right.”
His wife sent a text back to say “thanks.”
Krzyzewski said his wife and daughters always get more upset than he does, “but they should, and I like that.”
“I like when your women stick up for you, you know,” Krzyzewski said, laughing. “That’s the cool thing. That’s a really good thing. As a guy it makes you say, ‘Maybe I still got it, whatever I have, I got.’ “
Krzyzewski said he heard at breakfast on Thursday that his quote had been taken out of context. He was asked what he thought about the fact that Duke wasn’t advancing too far in a lot of brackets.
“Really it doesn’t matter at all what anyone predicts, it’s what you do,” Krzyzewski said on Wednesday. “Somebody said that we’re not in President Obama’s Final Four. As much as I respect what he’s done, really, the economy is something that he should focus on, probably, more than the brackets. So why would I care about that?
The President’s Picks
Is your original bracket a little hard to read? A lot of scratch marks and indecision? Well, you’re not alone. The leader of the free world found picking this year’s wide-open field to be just as tough as you did.
• View President Obama’s original bracket
• View his Tournament Challenge entry
• Katz talks about his White House experience
“I love the guy, and I think he’s going to be great. But I love the fact that so many people are filling them out, because the game is growing so much. But until I quit coaching or retire from coaching, I’m never going to fill one out.”
The second part of the quote obviously didn’t get as much attention. Krzyzewski was asked in his news conference Friday if he gets bothered when remarks get taken out of context.
“I don’t know why people do that,” he said. “I mean, a lot of you were here. We were all laughing, and really it was kind of a throwaway line. It wasn’t even — not that I would throw away anything about the president,” he said, smiling. “[You] get in trouble for that.”
Obama had correctly predicted 19 of 32 games in the first round. He was among close to 5 million people who filled out ESPN online sheets, and he was a bit off the lead: He was in 4,434,809th place after the first set of night games.
The good news for the president: 14 of his Sweet 16 teams are still alive.
Obama has top-seeded Louisville, North Carolina and Pittsburgh, and No. 2 Memphis reaching the Final Four. He took the Tar Heels to win the title.
Heather Dinich covers ACC college basketball and football for ESPN.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Well, Kansas did hold the Championship, but the headline makes it sound like the Spartans knocked out the top dog. The top 7 players from Kansas all graduated; these are not the kids who won last year. That’s not to denigrate them: how amazing is it that they lost their top 7 players and still made it to the Sweet 16???
Meanwhile, the Big East clinched a spot in the Final Four on THURSDAY, when Villanova knocked off the RPI’s top-rated team in the nation by 23 points. Leave it to Louisville to make that sound like a squeaker, huh?
Syracuse got beat solidly. Too bad... there goes the chance of an All-Big East final four. Still, four in the final eight isn’t half bad.
Boy, that was close! Coach K nearly got an audit, and Duke University nearly got excluded from their share of of the trilion-dollar jackpot!
19 of 32? That’s pretty terrible! That can’t be right? No-one could do that badly in the first round, when the supposed disparity is so great!
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Not a college hoops fan myself, I just enjoy watching the aftermath of the riots at MSU.
MSM sports coverage is just as misleading as their news coverage. The headline makes it sound like this was a big upset, which it most definitely was NOT. Kansas is nowhere near as good as it was last year due to significant changes in personnel.
The announcerst were terrible last night. They made it sound like Izzo was unhappy in East Lansing. No news of that here.
The play-by-play guy, Gus Johnson (not to be confused with the former NBA star of the same name), referred at least twice to Indianapolis - the city where the game was played - as "Naptown" (I think that's what he said.). Now I've heard of Motown, Chitown, Beantown, and Tinseltown, but "Naptown"?
Maybe Indianapolis is the birthplace of Janet Napolitano. I keep making the mistake of referring to her as Nappy, but I’m thinking of the Brit term for “diaper.”
Go Green! Go White!
Hopefully the Spartans have now had their lousy shooting games behind them and get the upset tomorrow.
Don't think so. I believe she's originally from the East, though I could be wrong.
As for "Naptown," this came to mind: IndiaNAPolis.
According to Wikipedia, Napolitano was born in New York and grew up in Pittsburgh and Albuquerque, NM.
It was more or less a poorly executed joke. I can’t always be at the top of my game!
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