OT: Northwestern Wins
First, congrats to Northwestern on their first ever tourney win. That must feel incredible.
Second, and more importantly, did anyone else just see Pat Fitzgerald enter the locker room to congratulate the basketball team, go full Brian Kelly blueberry, and "celebrate" by repeatedly punching either a student manager, assistant coach, or injured player? He punched the guy at least six times, by my count, but it could have been more...
I admit, it was pretty sweet. But it reminded me of that overzealous dude from your fraternity that still thinks you're both 20 and has several beers and punches you in the arm every time he makes a joke. Yeah, that guy...
There's your problem.
He was fist pumping in the air, not punching the guy. Good for him for supporting the team. I picked Vandy but was glad to see NU win their first tourney game. Why couldn't Minnesota pull through?!
Here's a link to Fitzgerald in the locker room.
Fake news. My video angle showed him punching the guy. FAKE NEWS!
Now that I see YOUR video, it doesn't look like he was connecting. I admit it. But damn he was coming close... ;-)
Yep, don't really care either team won't beat gonzaga .
Northwestern currently has the best winning percentage in the history of the NCAA D1 mens tournament.
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Have to acknowledge the foul Fisher-Davis for Vandy at the end there. Vandy hits a shot to go up 1 with 18 seconds left, Fisher-Davis thinks his team is down 1 and not up, so he immediately fouls an 86% FT shooter. NW hits them both and gets the win. Heart breaking for the kid.
This win for NW also leaves Nebraska as the only P5 school without a tourney win.
Is that what happened? I was wondering what the hell Vandy was thinking, fouling NW with a 1-point lead (I was watching it at work with the sound off).
March 16th, 2017 at 10:26 PM ^
I was listening to the radio call on my drive home, they said that Vandy's coach pointed at the NW player for Davis to stay with him. Confusion ensued, and Davis erroneously fouled the guy. They said coach grabbed his head and was apoplectic.
Oopsy...
Congrats to NW on their first ever tourney win, though!
March 17th, 2017 at 12:36 AM ^
Used to live in Evanston so glad for the school in general, but they sure have gotten some lucky breaks this year. Feel bad for the Vandy kid. They still could have won but he's gonna have a tough time forgetting this one for a while.
So you are saying that pat is excitable, really???
Hey, Pat. I am here to remind you that your team lost that game.
I don't expect Villanova to lose, but this is very much a game.
Pat Fitzgerald is beyond annoying.
Hope that doesn't augur anything for the game against Pistol Pete.
Terps looking like shit.
to break my bracket. And they had to get lucky to do it.
Spike playing major minutes in the second half. Couple of nice passes but dudes keep missing the shots.
They already hurt my bracket. I picked against Northwestern, Maryland and Minnesota. Only had Purdue and Wisconsin winning today from the conference.