March Madness

by Woogie526 on Mar 3, 2009 11:57 AM EST Comment 13 comments

I know there was a Big Blue View Fantasy Team this season. I always love doing March Madness Brackets. I started a yahoo group for Big Blue view Pick em.

The group ID is Group ID #19276

Hopefully we can have a big turnout and trash talk about it here. Pride is on the line, since I can't wager anything related to the site :P

I just thought it could be fun, not football related but sports related.

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If I remember about this, I will surely join.

I already created my bracket template image, now I just need selection sunday to tell me who to fill in (including logos) and put them up on the wall.

by brisulph on Mar 3, 2009 12:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm in

I love March Madness, even if it remind me of the depressing fact that New York City basketball has fallen so far that not a single team has been a legitimate tourney contender in nearly a decade.

by cjmulrain on Mar 3, 2009 6:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

The 'Cuse

That’s where New York basketball is at. We’re back in the tourney this year and with an offense that can shoot with anyone. Defense on the other hand, ehhhh I don’t know about that.

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by bigbluethruandthru on Mar 3, 2009 7:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

but when you’ve been a St. John’s fan your whole life, rooting for Syracuse isn’t an option. I would only root for the Cuse if they were playing UConn or Georgetown. Nah, these days I’m becoming a UMD fan – different conference so no real rooting conflict, I can see them play UNC and Duke and the like, and they actually have a passionate fanbase and the adminstration hasn’t murdered the program.

by cjmulrain on Mar 4, 2009 10:17 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I share your despair over the decline of NYC college BB

When I was a kid, College basketball was much bigger than the NBA and MSG was its mecca. The NIT was bigger than the NCAA. Teams came from all over the country to play the likes of St. John’s, NYU, CCNY, Manahattan. Double header college games were common and sold out.
When I was in high school. CCNY won both the NIT and NCAA championships, beating Bradley in the finals in both tournaments. The next year, four(I believe) members of the CCNY team were caught shaving points and were banned from playing in the NBA. The one guy who wasn’t shaving, Joe Galliber, went on to represent Harlem in the New York StateAssembly. I think he later went to jail on corruption charges.
Squeaky Melchiore, Bradley’s All-American point guard got caught too. He was the # 1 pick of the Baltimore Bullets but he was banned, too. Another Bradley All-Americans, Paul Unruh, one of the early jump shooters, chose not to play pro ball. Weird that I now live in Peoria where Bradley is located and find that very few locals remember the university’s days of BB glory.

by blue gonz on Mar 4, 2009 1:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i have a co-worker

that has a Hersey Hawkins’ signed ball at his desk. he is absolutely obsessed with Bradley basketball.

it’s too bad that St. John’s is so down now and New York City college basketball is essentially dead. i wasn’t old enough to remember the CCNY teams and when the NIT was relevant, but i do remember Mullin, Jax, and Carnesecca.

p.s. Gonz – if you ever want to see more basketball history, make the short trip to Indiana. Butler (the Gonzaga of the midwest) plays at Hinkle Fieldhouse where the real-life and fake Hoosiers story took place. the state also has 18 of the 20 largest high school basketball gyms on planet earth, including a dozen arenas that seat 7,000+ fans. even with the success of the Colts, it will always be a basketball state.

by SBakerTheTouchdownMaker on Mar 4, 2009 11:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hoosiers is a great movie

to watch to see the difference between styles of shooting then and now. Earlier, most players never threw up a shot with one hand.

by blue gonz on Mar 5, 2009 7:19 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

My Villanova Wildcats

could be a force to be reckoned with this season

It's not easy being Giants fan in Philly.. but it sure is satisfying

http://novafacts.blogspot.com/

by Hoyadestroya85 on Mar 3, 2009 9:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I love it when they won the NCAA.

I never remember seeing a team play with such intensity.

by blue gonz on Mar 4, 2009 1:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Go Duke!

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by squid92 on Mar 4, 2009 1:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

NYC college fans

can thank Mike Jarvis for the decline of NY college basketball. Speaking Of New York coaches.. Joe Jones at Columbia is a personal friend of the family and one of the true good guys in the sport.

It's not easy being Giants fan in Philly.. but it sure is satisfying

http://novafacts.blogspot.com/

by Hoyadestroya85 on Mar 5, 2009 1:27 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

yea Jarvis was the worst

I grew up with season tickets to SJU basketball. I was too young for the Mullin/Berry/Jackson years, but I was there when Malik Sealy became the all-time scoring leader, I was there for the disappointing Felipe Lopez/Zendon Hamilton years, and I was there for the awesome Artest/Postell/Bootsy/Barkley years, when they made it as far as the Elite 8. I stopped going to games when I went away to college, which just so happened to be the year of the Pittsburgh stripper/prostitute scandal. It’s sad to me that that was 7 years ago, and the program hasn’t been able to recover.

Also, on NY basketball news, I know CW Post’s head coach Tim Cleuss very well, and he currently has them #2 in the nation for D2. He coached St. Mary’s HS basketball when I was there, they won 7 straight CHSAA Championships, a few state titles, and at one point were the #1 HS team in the country, with Danny Green (now at UNC) as their star. He then went to Suffolk CC where he took them to the D-III tournament and finished 4th in the nation. And CW Post has improved every year he’s been there. This guy is the real deal, and might be the next coach at Hofstra if Pecora takes a bigger job.

by cjmulrain on Mar 5, 2009 10:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm also too young to remember Mullin etc.

Felipe Lopez is a bit of a blur in my mind, but The Artest, Postell, Barkley teams I remember well. I miss being able to hate SJU in the same sense that I did back in those days. It looks that you guys could have a pretty good recruiting class coming in next year and isn’t Anthony Mason Jr. gonna be back? I’m a huge Villanov afan so i recently set up a semi satirical blog about the ’Cats and plan on bringing it to SBNation soon.. if they let me

It's not easy being Giants fan in Philly.. but it sure is satisfying

http://novafacts.blogspot.com

by Hoyadestroya85 on Mar 5, 2009 11:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs