I was bottom-feeding after Thursday, but made a miraculous comeback for most of the day Friday on the strength of picking Western Kentucky, San Diego, and Siena. At 11 PM, my day looked very good, as Arkansas was coming back against Indiana and Clemson was successfully handling Villanova.
Then Clemson choked. Oh, how they choked. An 18-point lead they choked. Our football team has trouble blowing a lead that big in that amount of time, and I’ve muttered the Old Chokie cheer a time or two in the past eleven years.
Totals: 24 of 32, missing one Sweet 16 elimination and one Final 4 elimination.
22 March 2008
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Not exactly St. James’s Gate (though I did buy the glass there), but we do the best we can.
(In unrelated news: Daryl’s back! Woohoo! (And thanks, Bret, for the tip! (Yeah, nested parentheses!)))
17 March 2008
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Instapundit links to a couple of good surveys of Barack Obama’s difficulty explaining away his affiliation with a church and pastor with black-nationalist views.
I’d offer one alternative possibility that Glenn missed: his wife buys into it wholeheartedly (an idea supported by her senior thesis at Princeton), and he just went along. That’d be hard for him to explain as well, though.
UPDATE 18 March 2008: Damn, he’s good.
16 March 2008
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- I was thirty seconds away from calling my aunt outside Charlotte, AIMing my VT ‘08 brother, and loading up the car for tomorrow’s game — if all those UNC fans had left disappointed (not to mention the Dookies from game 2!), they’d have dumped their tickets to the scalpers on the way out and made it very easy to score a finals ticket.
- What we’ve just provided the committee is a textbook case to demonstrate whether they weight the entire season evenly, or whether they care who’s hot going into the tournament. If it’s even, we lose: too many embarrassing out-of-conference losses in the first two months of the season to ignore, and not one decent win among them, while we were breaking in five (and, after the fall semester ended, six) freshmen. If it’s about who’s hot: we won five of our last seven, including a road loss to an RPI top-25 team in the last four seconds and a virtual road loss to the number 1 team in the country on an off-balance putback by the consensus national player of the year with 0.8 seconds to go.
- Malcolm Delaney is a stone-cold killer.
- After how much screaming I did at the referees during the VT@Clemson game, I couldn’t complain about this one.
- I can’t receive the Charlottesville VT radio network affiliate in my office due to interference from all the computers. So for Friday’s game against Miami, I wound up hooking up my USB TV tuner to my laptop and listening to the TV commentators without the benefit of the video. I knew the TV commentary could be inane, but I never realized quite how bad it was until then.
At worst, we’ll pull a home game and a very favorable seed in the NIT — and that’s a long way from how I thought we’d do this year. The best times are ahead for this Hokie nucleus.
15 March 2008
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