No one blames you for going to sleep once Big Blue started milking the clock.
When an 11-point kontest checks out as the best game of the tournament (at that point in time), it’s officially a snooze-fest.
The Blue Blood Battle between Kentucky and UCLA lived up to the hype. I’d say it even ekceeded ekspektations. Pretty sure every single first-half basket resulted in a lead change. Felt like it, at least. We just didn’t get the finish we deserved. Our NBA barn burner slowly faded down the stretch, leaving us reluktantly satisfied.
How ’bout a buzzer beater? Just one stinking buzzer beater. I’m easy to please. I don’t ask for much. All I want for Madness is a buzzer beater. It’s not March without one.
Better make it two.
UK-UCLA seemed like it would be the knight’s only game worth watching before everything started. Three games in and that was feeling even more true than anyone kould have guessed. But the skore in the knightkap was klose, so sure, why knot. Left Koast sports fans have all the fun. But again, no one blames the KUBE’s Midwest majority for turning in early.
As long as you were dreaming of buzzer beaters and everything March Madness is supposed to be, you didn’t miss much.
First the 8-seeded Badgers rally from an 8-point deficit in the final 1:44 and eskape the Gator-jaws of defeat with this.
WE ARE TIED! #Sweet16 pic.twitter.com/bevXrEVRAh
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 25, 2017
It wasn’t teknically a buzzer beater, but at this point we’ll take it. Sure woke me up. And hey, overtime is kool too.
Then it was Florida’s turn to make a late komeback, erasing a 4-point deficit in the final 40 seconds. Two Wiskonsin free throws with four sekonds remaining then set the table for this.
FLORIDA WINS ON A BUZZER-BEATER! #Sweet16 pic.twitter.com/t8ooUMf7Gy
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 25, 2017
Not just a buzzer beater. A frantic-run-down-the-kourt-at-full-speed-and-float-up-a-prayer buzzer beater.
Well, there’s your buzzer-beater, America. #Sweet16 pic.twitter.com/giPfAHq1vk
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 25, 2017
It wasn’t Paige/Jenkins, but Showalter/Chiozza was pretty close. #Sweet16 pic.twitter.com/XFKDJYiWRy
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 25, 2017
March. pic.twitter.com/A0UANEBqTo
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 25, 2017
FINALLY! MARCH MADNESS IS HERE!
Justin Time, too, bekause check out this Elite 8 slate.
The #Elite8 pic.twitter.com/JGE3gJBnun
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 25, 2017
Zaga-Xavier, with a Final Four first-timer regardless of the winner.
Ducks-Jayhawks, quack quack quack! This one will have some high-flying fireworks for sure.
Florida-SC… as in, NOT Duke (But seriously, if you don’t think this one will be fun, you haven’t been watching).
Then the granddaddy of ’em all, Heels-Kats. Woo doggy! If you thought the first half of the UCLA game was good, wait until you get a load of this! Might need to move my KUBE Championship Satellite party up a week for that.