Mar 20th, 2008
NCAA Tournament: Omaha buzz
Omaha buzz: No. 16 over No. 1 sooner or later
No. 16 over No. 1 sooner or later
Will a No. 16 seed ever topple a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament?
Portland State coach Ken Bone, whose 16th-seeded Vikings play top-seeded Kansas today, seems to think so.
“It can be done. It will be done,” Bone said. “I’m not saying it will be done (Thursday) morning or the next day or next year, but at some point, sometime a 16 will beat a 1. I think we all know that. It’s just a matter of when it happens.”
Kansas coach Bill Self agrees.
“It’s going to happen,” Self said. “I hope it’s not anytime in the very near future. But it’s going to happen.”
Self talks up Portland State
Speaking of Portland State’s seeding, Self thinks the Jayhawks’ first-round opponent is better than a No. 16 seed.
“After watching tape, I told our guys, ‘How are these guys a 16 seed?’ ” Self said. “They do a lot of the same things we do. They play fast. They share the ball. All of them can pass. All of them can stretch the defense from the perimeter.”
Portland State has won a school record 23 games this season and went 14-2 in the Big Sky Conference.
“I really like their team. That’s not coach speak,” Self said.
The hideous elbow injury that Wisconsin’s Brian Butch suffered last season became a cult classic.
More than 130,000 viewings of it on YouTube.com made Butch famous. But he isn’t among those who have taken time to watch the injury that ended his season.
“I have not seen it, and I don’t plan on seeing it,” Butch said. “It was pretty ugly just the way it felt. I can only imagine how it looked. I tried to actually look at it once during the offseason, and I had to turn my head.”
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13 Responses to “NCAA Tournament: Omaha buzz”
Actually, if they paid $1000 for a handgun instead of the pair of sneakers they do now, you might end up with the street criminals turning in their guns. The law abiding “gun=freedom” types wouldn’t.
Then what about Kucinich?While it is not as much the focus of his campaign, Kucinich seems to be a decent guy and seems to respect the constitution as much as Paul. Based on skimming your previous posts, I’d guess he probably agrees with you on more issues.So if It’s ‘better to support a candidate who respects freedom and loses then a candidate who you dislike and wins’, why do you support Paul?I’m not trying to say that you shouldn’t support him, I’m just curious if there’s a specific reason you support him over Kucinich, other the one I usually hear, that Kucinich doesn’t have as much of a chance at winning.
I really disagree with Paul on so many issues, but my issues mean jack shit without freedom. Ideally, I’d like 10 men and women running who respect the Constitution and our civil liberties as much as Paul so I could choose the one among them who espouses my stance on the issues. I’ll take the Constitution real patriots bled for over the Federal Government’s protection of abortion any damned day of the week. Freedom comes first, Ron Paul has got to win this. It’s better to support a candidate who respects freedom and loses then a candidate who I dislike and wins.
Ron Paul was one of 4 republicans to support Regan against Ford…this was before Guilliani remembered he was a Republican.
Then why don’t you marry him, huh?
It’s because Reagan was the last Republican president that was considered successful.
Do bananas feel pain?Do monkeys cry in their dreams?Would Reddit explode if O’Reilly decided to suddenly support Ron Paul?Do monkeys see bananas in their dreams?
1) Ron Paul is a Republican2) Most of the other Republican candidates have tried, at one time or another, to dress in the corpse of Ronald Reagan
I agree, if he wins the nomination he will trounce Hillary (anyone with any sense will see how fake she is, and how authentic Ron Paul is, and even many democrats will have enough sense to vote for the authentic candidate).What I think is unlikely is that he will get the nomination, but there is still hope, we have to do our best.
Who is Neal Cavuto?
Good to see I can still help people out
I agree. But that isn’t the point of the headline in my mind, it points to the sentiment that all over people are understanding the momentum of Ron Paul.People are comparing him alternatively to Ronald Reagan, the founding fathers (some of them), Jimmy Carter, and I think I saw a JFK reference somewhere.It was such a classic response for the candidates who were awestruck at RP’s money bomb to try and “tap” into the internet. They view the internet as another market from which more money can just appear. But, as has happened already, many have tried their own ‘grassroots’ money bombs and COMPLETELY failed. Why? BECAUSE IT IS THE MESSAGE THAT IS IMPORTANT. They keep calling it ’support from the internet’, not realizing that it is, you know, LOTS of people that make it up.