He definitely has a distinctive voice. He makes John Wayne sound squeaky.

My nephew graduated from State. His wife is on the faculty at Duke. They met in grad school at Carolina.

that Coach K’s ad for the US Army, which stresses “when you put on that uniform you’re part of something bigger than yourself”, features C J McCollum who led Lehigh to an upset of Duke in the tournament.

I attended that game. I enjoyed it.

The ACC measured 19’ from the backboard. Everybody else measured 19 feet from the origin of the circle that is the rim.

The Dubs have 5 NBA legacies: Steph, Klay, Wiggins, Payton, and TJD.

I did not know until today that Steph has the highest effective FG% (58.2) and true shooting percentage (62.6) of any player in the top 50 all time scorers. Fittingly Steph is #30. 🙂 Steph now has over 300 made 3s this season. This is the 5th time he’s done that. All other NBA players have combined ...

Emory should be able to go with him. I’d rather have a diploma from Rice than SMU (unless I wanted to be a Methodist pastor).

I had a HS teacher who got her doctorate in history from Rice. Soon after she was NC’s teacher of the year. Soon after that she joined WCU’s faculty.

We’re not going to get an at large bid. We have to build for the conference tournament. If we do well in conference we’ll get a more favorable draw.

Right now I don’t see enough pitching depth to do well in tournament play. Maybe we’ll find/develop some by then.

N Carolina knocked Mich State out earlier. They jumped out to a pretty big lead and held on when the Spartans fought back to make it close. I think the future is bright in E Lansing.

I hope our pitching continues to improve. Maybe we’ll figure out what we’re doing and who needs to be on the field to do it for conference play.

We scored 11 in the 2nd!

Another WTF? They went 20-13 this year. They improved over his 1st season.

Somebody will hire him. If they have a brain (meaning they give him 3 or 4 years) they’ll end up w a successful program.

Dayton plays AZ in the first game. I doubt Dayton’s body clock advantage carries the day.

Today there are games in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Omaha, and Salt Lake City. The first game starts at 12:45 eastern. Naturally the NCAA and CBS chose to start with the Salt Lake City games. That means they are starting before 11 am local time.

Spadone came as a walk-on. He has played well enough to merit a scholarship somewhere.

Aside- the Colonial Athletic Association is no more. Now they’re the Coastal Athletic Association.