Weekend Recap

For the second consecutive year, a very entertaining NCAA Tournament has led to a very disappointing Final Four. In the first game, Ted Valentine defeated Georgetown 67-60. For those of you who are confused by that last statement, Teddy V was one of the officials in the game and made bad call after bad call against Georgetown, the worst of which was the blocking call on Jeff Green. Now, Teddy has always been a terrible referee, and his performance really shouldn't have surprised any real basketball fan. I have watched him blow call after call in the Big East, especially when Notre Dame is involved, and this guy is just truly terrible. Helen Keller would blow less calls than Teddy V.

In the second game, UCLA forgot to bring their offense and fell to Florida 76-66. Honestly, I don't think I've seen a worse offensive half of basketball than the first half UCLA played in that game. I could smell the stink all the way from Atlanta. Also, since we pushed in the first game and OC picked Florida, he officially wins the first ever pick 'em contest and bragging rights. Way to bring the A-game boys. I did, however, beat him in Pop-a-shot later that night to redeem myself. Now onto the important results of the two games, the drinking game:

G'Town versus Ohio State
No real entertaining subplots in this game. I picked Jeff Green over Jonathon Wallace, which led immediately to two things occuring: Jeff Green had his worst game of the postseason and Jonathon Wallace led all scorers with 19 points. I am a huge jinx. The only other noteworthy thing about this game was the foul trouble of Hibbert and Oden, although neither managed to foul out. Regardless, still a great time.

Florida versus UCLA
For the first time ever, I picked a player who didn't shit the bed during the game. Corey Brewer became my first player to score a point in BOTH halves as well as not fouling out. He poured in a game high 19 points. The most entertaining subplot of the game was the play of Arron Afflalo, owned by JS. With a little over six minutes to go in the game, AA had ZERO points and 4 fouls. Having already chugged his punishment after a scoreless first half, JS was looking at having to chug another three beers (two for the scoreless game, one more for fouling out). AA did end up fouling out, but managed to remove his head from his ass and scored 17 points in garbage time.

Stay tuned for more posts later this week, including picks for the Championship game.