I would like to thank both UNC and Memphis for sucking cockandballs and successfully taking me well out of the money in the one bowl pool which actually mattered.

Off of a complaint over at DFIG. It is obvious that there is no favoritism towards the boys in baby blue, even beyond the ACC and Swofford. I mean, look at the brackets! You have everyone in random places such as Denver, Tampa, Detroit and UNC travels all the way to…..Raleigh. Well, ok so they get the first two games right in their back yard but they move on, if they win, to the new location. Looking at the brackets again, we see that the Heels head all the way to…..Charlotte. What the HELL!! I searched the entire bracket structure and can’t find anyone, even the #1 seeds getting that much home court favor. Leading off of DFIG’s comments about UNC bandwagonners and their ticket hoarding, this does not seem anywhere NEAR fair. I hope someone in the colleges that has to put up with this crap complains as the baby blue boys have way too much going for them in terms of favor through the regular season to keep this crap going in the tourneys as well.

But I am a biased Clemson fan, what do I know.

Yesterday’s win over Duke was certainly enjoyable.

But I really want to beat these eggheads.

UPDATE: Damn it!

You heard it here first.

We did beat Maryland on Sunday night. It was certainly quite the dramatic game.

I wanted to add a few comments about that game and the season in general.

Nowadays, I’m living in Northern Virginia. Understandably, the DC-based radio station I listen to, WJFK, has a bit of a Maryland bias. So it is with some pleasure that I have been able to listen to the lamentations about the Terps season and their monumental collapse on Sunday. It’s also quite nice just to hear Clemson sometimes pop up into general ACC conversations. Instead of being just one of the faceless teams in the cellar, we show up as a legitimate 3rd place team.

The last few years, collectively, have definitely brought tremendous improvement. And we should enjoy it.

I smell the Big Dance in the oven! With the stellar comeback win in the final two seconds over Mayland Sunday night, the Tigers have all but offically locked a slot in March Madness. Hmm, the last time I joined in and gave a rats rear end about basketball in March I was 18. How sad, how very sad. More to follow on the game. Go Tigers!

That’s good.

I caught the score just before the half. It was surprising to be that far ahead, but also thought, “we can totally blow this lead.”

Later, I caught the score with a few minutes left. We had totally blown the lead. Fortunately the lead was quickly recovered and retained. The final score was 79-69.

The next day I checked the ACC standings. We’re 3rd. That just doesn’t seem right.

In the last 10 days, the basketball team has split a set of 4 games. That leaves the team 2-1 in conference while it leaves everyone else wondering how they hell they managed to lose to Charlotte.

In brief summary:
1/6 - UNC - L, 90-88 (OT): stupid fucking overtime
1/9 - Charlotte - L, 82-72: ???
1/12 - FSU - W, 97-85 (2OT): sweet! I love overtime!
1/15 - NCSU - W, 70-54: at least we beat one team from North Carolina

In FT % summary:
UNC - 14/27 = 51.9%
Charlotte - 18/26 = 69.2%
FSU - 14/22 = 63.6%
NCSU - 6/12 = 50%

Next: Duke, in Durham, Saturday at 6PM, with cheating clock operators, and what I predict will be a 16/30 = 53.3 % free-throw shooting performance from Clemson.

I fucking hate overtime.