60 degrees and sunny out and I’m watching High Point and Winthrop play for the Big South championship. Hadn’t planned to, but it’s been a great game! Cameo by Logan Duncomb, Winthrop center, Moeller grad and Miami offer.
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If I did the adverts for HighPoint, I would use their name in all the marketing in a clumsy and terrible (read awesome) way. At first, it would be innocent and fine “the highpoint of your weekend begins with us” and during broadcasts, a big play of the game would be called “the highpoint of the game.” But then, I’d monetize it and brands would be able to own it. A coffee company pays good money to have the coach say “the highpoint of my morning is when I drink ___coffee.” Then the fiber gummie company pays more money…”the highpoint of my day is when I hit the bathroom thanks to ___fiber…” But then greed sets in. A major weed brand pays huge money. The school has second thoughts but…NIL… so it goes. Now the ads are all veiled drug references about the highpoint of the day being when you’re higher than the sun. Overnight, a once proud university has hit its low point.
And now, my work is done so I move onto helping Ball State. “Have a ball!!!” What could possibly go wrong?…
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Watching 5 seed Navy leading 1 seed Bucknell in a Patriot league semi.
Navy advances. If Colgate upsets American, a losing team is guaranteed to get to March Madness.
C’mon, AU. Don’t lose to toothpaste.
On the women’s side, Duke just finished off its vengeance tour, beating every team they lost to in the ACC regular season (Carolina in the last regular season game, then Louisville/Notre Dame/NC State in the tourney) to win their first ACC title in quite a while. Kara Lawson has it going in Durham.
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Love the smaller conference touraments. High Point’s comeback was terrific.
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Toothpaste.
#excelllence
And now Squirrel Doggy is watching Wofford. He likes the mascot.
ETA: Terriers win. The SoCon went full HAM and the final will be a 5-6 rerun of the Wofford-Furman rivalry. Our old friend Herb Sendek is coaching Santa Clara on ESPN2 right now if you’re looking for further immersion in conference tourneys.
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Herb is an excellent coach. His conference is very tough so I’m not surprised he hadn’t won it yet but I still think he can. Guy always beats bigger schools on his schedule every year.
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Whoa! I did not realize that Ed Schilling is coaching Pepperdine. This game is definitely a trip down memory lane for Miamians.
Ed lived in Reid Hall in '84-'85. He and I were in Mortar Board together as seniors.
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Troy is cruising in the Sun Belt semifinal. The kind of win that could help with seeding if we go on a run next weekend.
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“Ensminger” for Santa Clara? And . . . yup. That’s Mike’s nephew.
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Ball State has an actual marketing partnership with Manscaped. Comedy can’t keep up with reality here.
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Pepperdine wins 78-76. The Waves are 13-21 on the year. During the broadcast, the commentators noted that the players were displaced from campus by the LA fires for a significant portion of the season, with lots of disruption to practice and game schedules. Ed has those guys competing hard, and he’s got a do-everything guard (Moe Odom) who has been lights out two nights in a row and a big guy who seals the low block well and has decent hands.
I actually think that makes some good sense.
I’m happy reading this.
And Troy wins the Sun Belt tourney.
Incarnate Word and Nicholls are going to OT in the Southland quarterfinals game, a game being played in front of almost no one in Lake Charles, LA.
I know it’s been said before but when it comes to location and timing of the conference tournament, the MAC (with an NBA arena and a Saturday prime time slot for the title game) is miles ahead of some of the other one-bid leagues.
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Word up!!!
(That was for Incarnate Word, but I also agree with you.)
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I watched a little bit of the WCC games. It’s amazing how international their rosters are. Up to 7-8 players on almost every team - from the Balkans, Greece, Australia, Mali, Spain, and almost everywhere.
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The floor at the Big 12 tournament looks like static on old television sets. It’s gray with “XII” repeatedly on the floor.
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