Man do I feel for those kids from Belmont

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Man do I feel for those kids from Belmont

#1 Post by Buffacuse » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:44 pm

They played their hearts out.

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#2 Post by mellytu74 » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:45 pm

And Duke got to the free throw line, what, three times as much?

I felt for sure that Belmont was going to win, when it kept it close down the stretch and took the lead.

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#3 Post by fantine33 » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:11 pm

I don't. GO DUKE!

PS to Mel: Your Owls let me down!

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#4 Post by mellytu74 » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:21 pm

fan --

Watching streaming video or following the scores is absolutely verboten at work. I need the job too much to screw around.

SO, I cannot comment at all on the Owls' game.

Except to say I am very disappointed for them.

But considering that they weren't listed as one of the top 144 teams in the country at the start of the season and that they were 0-3 and looked pretty awful doing it, I am pretty happy with a 12 seed in the NCAAs.

that wasn't how I felt a few hours ago but a couple of Schmidt's have helped.

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#5 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:12 am

fantine33 wrote:I don't. GO DUKE!

PS to Mel: Your Owls let me down!
Fanny made me laugh.

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#6 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:13 am

mellytu74 wrote:fan --

Watching streaming video or following the scores is absolutely verboten at work. I need the job too much to screw around.

SO, I cannot comment at all on the Owls' game.

Except to say I am very disappointed for them.

But considering that they weren't listed as one of the top 144 teams in the country at the start of the season and that they were 0-3 and looked pretty awful doing it, I am pretty happy with a 12 seed in the NCAAs.

that wasn't how I felt a few hours ago but a couple of Schmidt's have helped.
That you said for and not in made me happy.

I really am easy to make happy.

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#7 Post by luv2jog » Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:22 am

mellytu74 wrote:And Duke got to the free throw line, what, three times as much?

I felt for sure that Belmont was going to win, when it kept it close down the stretch and took the lead.
Belmont 15 free throw attempts.
Duke 21 free throw attempts.

I'm pretty sure that's not 3 times as much.

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#8 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:24 am

luv2jog wrote:
mellytu74 wrote:And Duke got to the free throw line, what, three times as much?

I felt for sure that Belmont was going to win, when it kept it close down the stretch and took the lead.
Belmont 15 free throw attempts.
Duke 21 free throw attempts.

I'm pretty sure that's not 3 times as much.
Don't we hate it when people use statistics to prove us wrong.

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#9 Post by lilclyde54 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:02 am

Best game of the tournament so far.
I felt the change

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#10 Post by ToLiveIsToFly » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:45 pm

And here I thought y'all were talking about the Romney children, who've been dealing for the past month-odd with the fact that their robot Daddy will never be President.

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#11 Post by DadofTwins » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:51 pm

Belmont has nothing to hang their heads about.

For one, they came from 10 down in the second half to take a late lead.

Final 5 seconds notwithstanding, Belmont coach Rick Byrd coached Mike Krzyzewski under the table. Belmont has been a team known for it's 3-point shooting all year. Knowing that Duke would want to deny the 3, Belmont ran Princeton-style back-cuts the entire first half. Once Duke adjusted, Belmont was able to get open 3's in the second half.

Abso-smurf-ly brilliant.

Also brilliant? Not shorteneing their bench late in the regular season and postseason. Belmont played 10-deep against Cincinnati and Alabama in November. They played 10-deep against East Tennessee State and Lipscomb in February and March. And they played 10-deep against Duke.

Thus, when All-conference performers Shane Dansby and Justin Hare were held in check most of the night, Alex Renfroe, Matthew Dotson, and Henry Harris were able to step up.

Oh, and basketball on the computer? Coolest. Thing. Ever.
We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart?

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#12 Post by mellytu74 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:36 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
mellytu74 wrote:fan --

Watching streaming video or following the scores is absolutely verboten at work. I need the job too much to screw around.

SO, I cannot comment at all on the Owls' game.

Except to say I am very disappointed for them.

But considering that they weren't listed as one of the top 144 teams in the country at the start of the season and that they were 0-3 and looked pretty awful doing it, I am pretty happy with a 12 seed in the NCAAs.

that wasn't how I felt a few hours ago but a couple of Schmidt's have helped.
That you said for and not in made me happy.

I really am easy to make happy.
Pea --

I could never be disappointed in them.

They are very nice young men who aspire to do wonderful things. The two senior captains want to be schoolteachers.

They made me very proud.

Even if they had gone 12-18, they would have made me proud.

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#13 Post by mellytu74 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:37 pm

luv2jog wrote:
mellytu74 wrote:And Duke got to the free throw line, what, three times as much?

I felt for sure that Belmont was going to win, when it kept it close down the stretch and took the lead.
Belmont 15 free throw attempts.
Duke 21 free throw attempts.

I'm pretty sure that's not 3 times as much.
WOW, it was that close? It didn't seem it at the time but I hadn't looked at the stats until you mentioned it.

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#14 Post by fantine33 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:25 pm

mellytu74 wrote:fan --

Watching streaming video or following the scores is absolutely verboten at work. I need the job too much to screw around.

SO, I cannot comment at all on the Owls' game.

Except to say I am very disappointed for them.

But considering that they weren't listed as one of the top 144 teams in the country at the start of the season and that they were 0-3 and looked pretty awful doing it, I am pretty happy with a 12 seed in the NCAAs.

that wasn't how I felt a few hours ago but a couple of Schmidt's have helped.
I agree, they had a great season. So much, in fact, that I had even chosen them to beat Pittsburgh in the next round, for God's sake.

Plus I just can't resist underdogs. I didn't see the game live, but seeing the scores brought on something resembling an induction of agita or some such.

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#15 Post by fantine33 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:30 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
fantine33 wrote:I don't. GO DUKE!

PS to Mel: Your Owls let me down!
Fanny made me laugh.
I wasn't meaning to be funny. I was sucking up the seat cushions, there.

I long for the days when all I had to do was alternate pulling for Duke and UNC and I ended up happy pretty much every year doing that.

Yes, I realize that's weird. Even weirder? I worked with a judge who was a crazy Duke alum and he took his life in his hands on a trip to Durham in 93 and brought me back a UNC championship bumper sticker.

With the provision that I keep my Duke 92 bumper sticker on my car and do something else with that one. Ha!

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#16 Post by fantine33 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:41 pm

mellytu74 wrote:I could never be disappointed in them.

They are very nice young men who aspire to do wonderful things. The two senior captains want to be schoolteachers.

They made me very proud.
I love hearing stuff like that.

Marcus Camby (Nuggets' center and reigning Defensive Player of the Year) wants to be a school principal once he retires (elementary, I think) and has one of the best athlete blogs I've ever read. He has complete thoughts, topics broken down into paragraphs, and uses words like complementary with the proper spelling and context. Carmelo's blog, on the other hand, gives me a headache trying to read a single sentence.

I remarked to my nephew (who reads both blogs as well) that you can certainly tell who graduated with a degree in Education from UMass and who declared after his freshman year at Syracuse.

Camby also always gives a thought provoking interview, even if it's of the locker room variety. My sister and I love our Marcus, can you tell?

I'm not knocking Carmelo or Syracuse here. Merely pointing out that I showed my teenage nephew the value of education in a way that he both understood and agreed with. (I'm too tired to retype that sentence in a way in which I don't need to end it with a preposition. Ha!) As I didn't finish school, I can't really tell the kids to do as I say and not as I did, but using athletes as a good example gets through to them.

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