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Pastimes : 2011 NCAA College Basketball March Madness -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (316)	3/20/2011 12:20:50 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 593

Stupid is what stupid does. Can these players be any dumber?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (316)	3/20/2011 12:51:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 593

RE:"This really screwed up their Big East honed physical pressure defense and kept Cinci in the game." Cinci should have been used to it since they are in the Big East too. All I know is that UConn beat them. Kimba did it at the end. UConn started the season well, then faltered. Now they seem to be turning it on. ----------- As for Bulter-Pitt. Both the fouls sure looked like fouls...fair and square. I hope the Pitt kid can recover mentally from fouling. The Butler guy sure got a reprieve. Not sure I've ever seen two bone head fouls like that back to back in the final 2 seconds that determined the game.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (316)	3/20/2011 1:05:09 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 593

the big east was way way over rated

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (316)	3/20/2011 1:51:03 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 593

But having not seen the entire game I don't know if that level of contact had been called throughout the contest. Was it? Yes... Both teams had numerous ticky-tack fouls, the overwhelming majority of which were an offensive charge. It really did take away heavily from Pitt, especially during the first half of the game. I think that everyone will agree that the bonehead play of the century (for this past century) in the NCAA playoffs belonged to Chris Weber of Michigan, when in the waning seconds and trailing by a point or two, he called timeout, a timeout that Michigan did not have, and therefore lost possession of the ball, which ultimately led to Michigan's loss in that game. Now today, we have not one player that wanted to duplicate that honor belonging to Mr. Weber, we had two morons. The Butler player should never have been close enough to the Pitt player to commit the foul, but he was and he did. It was a clear foul, nothing ticky-tack about it. Pitt had a chance to win, or at least tie and send the game into overtime. The shooter made the front end of a pair of free throws, and we should be going to overtime, no? No! The Pitt player learned absolutely nothing from the Butler player's mistake and he fouled on the rebound from the missed free throw. Butler then sinks the free throws with less than a second remaining, and Pitt goes down the tubes. The arrogance of these young players to ignore the common sense strategy and wisdom of the game is absolutely astonishing. Maybe the coaches (both teams) forgot to warn their young men about fouling? I doubt it. These guys have only one mode and that's to attack aggressively whenever possible. Absolutely no thinking whatsoever. I nominate the Pitt player for this century's NCAA bonehead play... Like Smith Barney, he earned it... EK!!!