Tossing batting practice…while wondering if Ted Sarandis kidnapped Sean McDonough during the first overtime, and announced the final 25 minutes of the game.

McDonough’s voice hit octaves last night that was previously unseen or heard in any experience I remember of him.

It never fails, if you wave off a buzzer beater at the end of regulation, you can prepare yourself for a very very long night. Let that be a lesson to you young officials out there. Overtime is not your friend, and your per diem doesn’t increase if it takes three days to determine a winner.

It doesn’t matter that they basically played a third fourth half, I’m pretty sure Jim Calhoun is berating his players for allowing 100 127 points.

The fourth fifth sixth (?!?!) overtime, was the stuff of dreams…for the walkons at the end of both benches. You know they sit in class day dreaming about getting inserted into the game after the first 10 guys have fouled out, got hurt, or become academically ineligible in the middle of a game that seemingly lasted two semesters.

The five six overtime thriller was made all the better when I caught this nugget of a story. Last week’s featured friend Ryan, actually went to the afternoon games, but sold his night session tickets. That accurately sums up Ryan, who right now is working on a self deprecating script of his own life, yet its far too pathetic to be real.


I think the stat “fast break points” should stop after a second overtime, and changed to “slow controlled jog points.”

If you’ve ever played and lasted deep into an AAU tournament (or been on a kick ass pickup team that won’t lose) you know how both teams must have felt by the end. UConn especially looked like an AAU team in OT no. 6 as they just wildly chucked threes and played no perimeter defense.

Calhoun probably had practice at Storrs, at 6am, and if its spring break at UConn he might have had double sessions.
He even stated in his postgame presser he wasn’t tired and could go to practice right away.
I love him because of his miserable ornery persona because its funny, particularly if you’ve played for someone like that, but I can see what it rubs the rest of America the wrong way.

I’m sure there’s No doubt he was wearing that miserable glare, asking rhetorically “how can I play you, if you won’t work hard on defense in the sixth overtime, after four hours of real time playing?” Now if Calhoun is anything like my college coach, which I think he is, the rest would play something along the lines of “shut up! Shut the f*#! Up!” if anybody actually tried to answer the rhetorical question.

So apparently the espn live blog update on the game allows people to vote whether or night they like this game. Beyond my initial question of why would anyone who is reading the in game boxscore vote negatively for any game, only 97.2% of people seem to like this six OT thriller. Seriously, those 2.8% of people have to be the most miserable group of people on earth, probably the folks who call into the Big Show and Mike Adams regularly.