Go Butler!
can kiss my A!
All class.
but I just bet $250 on Duke (-7.5).
How'd that turn out? womp womp.
Let's Go Butler!!!! Win me some MONNAYYYYYYYY!!!!
Lets go Butler! Win me a T-shirt...
following hip hop once I turned about 18, but is this what Puff Daddy's career has resorted to?
LETS GO BUTLER!(Any chance they can hear me screaming from Grand Rapids?)
bc if so that's the greatest shit ever.
I think I've finally found a team that can out clutch and grab MSU and Wisconsin.
You're killing me.
at the same time since the tournament expanded!
If Butler manages to pull this off, how does it rank in terms of all time great upsets? Top 5? I'd say top 5
I wouldn't. Butler has won 25 in a row, and was ranked 8th in polls. There were greater upsets in the tourny this year, maybe not in terms of big upset in this big of a game, but in terms of worse teams beating good teams. The media wants to paint Butler as David, but Butler was massively under seeded.
The Bulldogs are hanging. I think that if Butler can defend hard until the end they have the guys to pull it out. Guys like Nored, Vanzant, and Veasley all seem like good defenders, and they wear you out and make you earn your points. That's crucial against a team like Duke because they don't have a ton of scorers.
The teams that have lost to Duke all really failed to defend second chance shots. If Butler can stick to their gameplan, and defend they have a heck of shot to win this game IMO.
>70 Duke wins
62 Butler wins
In the middle *shrugs*
I just really want Duke to lose, being from Canada it seems like everyone is jumping on the Duke bandwagon. I hate Duke and all their players, except for the Plumlee's.
...to the BTN every so often to see the tape delay broadcast of the Michigan - IU water polo match. Final was Michigan 6, IU 4 (not to kill the suspense or anything). Interesting note: this is the first water polo match ever shown on the BTN.
I can't wait for IM2 to come out. Gonna be awesome!
Butler has to start making shots or this is gonna get out of hand fast.
Butler is here to stay, they ain't going to just fall over, that's why they made it this far.
and so they have. good deal.
..or would this game be more entertaining if Ed Hightower were refereeing???
on a sidenote they did manage to find Ted Valentine, Ed Hightower's near equal in terms of awful officiating.
I saw Valentine (who I think has a personal vendetta against the Wolverines) and thought Hightower would make a great addition to this officiating crew.
It is a shame that Zoubek has to throw the ball out of the paint when he is under the basket. He should just dominate down there. You are 7'1", turn and jump just a little and dunk it.
Plus with Zoubek hedging like he is I think Duke will get burned by that sooner or later.
Is it just me, or is Butler getting raped on shot attempts and getting no calls at all?
But that's something else that annoys me about Duke and programs like them, in general. Jealousy. They get all the calls, all the benefit from the media, promotion from the NCAA and their conference...all the breaks.
Contrast that with Michigan Football, as storied as any college program- media tries to tear it down, everyone jumps against it (like when it has a chance for a rematch vs. OSU) and it isn't promoted for it's greatness, and it's own conference seems out to stick it to them with calls or anything else to keep them down (outside of what people think in Happy Valley, at least) rather than help prop up their name teams.
I've never gotten that.
Very well played half thus far. I'd look to Hayward and Mack to take control in the second half. At this point it looks like two very good, very close teams.
If Butler can hang on in the first few minutes of the second half, they can win this game.
Da'sean Butler: "Man, that moment on the floor was super awkward."
Ok, so he may not have actually said that.
He agrees.
It was awkward for sure.
At first it was nice/touching.
Then he got closer and closer.
Then he was caressing his face while having his lips inches from Da'Sean's
awkward
At first it was nice... then it was just fucking awkward.
Chitown=WRONG!
This shit is rigged in Butler's favor. The fix is in.
what game are you watching? Valentine is hosing Butler by ignoring the many Duke travels by Single and the flops in the middle lane by Duke? I feel like I am watching the San Antonio Spurs with the flops.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Butler is hacking with no calls being made on them.
How many wide open 3s has he bricked?
4. Veasley's bricked 4.
He's 0-3 two of them were practically in. The first one hung on the rim and fell off, the last one was in and out. Butler again coming out hard and playing tough the second half, should be a great game.
he's 0-4 from 3. 1-8 for the game. competing with Matty Howard for LVP of Butler.
EDIT: Now 0-5 from 3, 1-9 total. Someone get him out!
That was a Grade-A Greg Paulus flop by Jon Scheyer. If you're going to draw the charge, STAND UP TALL and TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.
That charge call was total fucking bullshit.
is getting the NBA superstar treatment in this game
He has been hacking up a storm and not getting called
That wasn't flagrant? What game is Kellog watching?
They made the right call. Went after the ball, got tied up.
A flagrant personal foul (or intentional foul) involves excessive or severe contact during a live ball.
A flagrant technical foul involves unsportsmanlike conduct that is extreme in nature, or excessive or severe contact during a dead ball. Fighting is also considered a flagrant technical foul.
As he said he was going for the ball, no that's NOT a flagrant.
That was the right call. It was incidental that Heyward took that tumble. Was not intentional by Thomas.
However, I CANNOT STAND CLARK KELLOGG. He is absolutely DREADFUL.