Thursday Game Set 9:09p TBS

[PorkyPig]

Holy crap. That made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

[The Whyte Boar]

I remember in 96 we had a very similar type year with Kareem Reid and Derek Hood and squeaked in as a 12 seed.  We made it to the Sweet 16 and Cal and his Umass team beat the dogshit out of us.

[HughJasole]

I remember in 96 we had a very similar type year with Kareem Reid and Derek Hood and squeaked in as a 12 seed.  We made it to the Sweet 16 and Cal and his Umass team beat the dogshit out of us.

Yup. And they upset Penn State and Marquette in Providence, ironically.

[DRYANKNPULL]

I remember in 96 we had a very similar type year with Kareem Reid and Derek Hood and squeaked in as a 12 seed.  We made it to the Sweet 16 and Cal and his Umass team beat the dogshit out of us.

In Atlanta.  There's a bar next to the arena called Jocks and Jills.  That weekend there was 12 Bloody Mary max before the game.

[red death]

I'll be watching from my lucky table at the same bar I've watched the first 2.

The manager is a Hog fan and he's superstitious too so he's holding it for me. 

We all have to do our part.

[DrMongoose]

Give that man his statue immediately

This! Build it Now!

[RPL]

Seriously? You're going to miss a Sweet 16 game for a few hours of sleep? I say this as someone on the East Coast that wakes up at 4:30 in the morning. I can't imagine not watching this game.

I think he's in Italy this week.  Who carries TBS/Tru in Europe anyway?

[vegashog]

cal told mcafee that thiero will play.

[Guardrail]

cal told mcafee that thiero will play.

Piss=Hot

[vegashog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4No9AxM_aE

[Show-Me Hog]

Here's the Arkansas section of this article, with a couple of my notes.

1. Arkansas! Are you kidding me?

Full transparency time? This is the one that stunned me. Arkansas was 0-5 in the SEC, finished league play with a losing record, and opened March with a thud of a loss to league cellar dweller South Carolina in a game that wasn't even as close as the 19-point final margin.

Arkansas was decimated by injuries throughout the regular season, and it was so bad at times that John Calipari couldn't practice with 5 in November. But the Hogs had Boogie Fland for the first 5 league games and lost them all anyway, and Johnell Davis, the top-ranked player in the transfer portal in the offseason, seemed to lack both confidence and a defined schematic role until February. This team was a mess.

For the Hogs to beat Bill Self's preseason No. 1 Kansas and then Calipari mortal enemy Rick Pitino and St. John's on the first weekend to advance to the program's fourth Sweet 16 this decade? That's incredible.  (Perhaps he is unaware that we already beat "preseason No. 1 Kansas"...in the preseason.  The way he wrote that makes me think probably not.)

Recency bias is to blame for suggesting this is one of Calipari's best coaching jobs. With a team full of NBA players (Fland, D.J. Wagner, Zvonimir Ivišić, and Adou Thiero will all play in the NBA, at a minimum) and college stars (Davis, Jonas Aidoo), this was always a team that had second weekend potential. (Wait what? Z is going to play in the NBA? I'll take that bet.)

They just seemed terribly unlikely to cash in on their talent. Now they have, and even without Thiero — who remains sidelined with a knee injury — the Hogs are more talented than Texas Tech, the team they'll play in on Thursday in San Francisco. Pig Sooie. (Apparently hasn't been following the news on Thiero.)

Amateur article.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college-basketball/10-things-im-absolutely-overreacting-to-after-the-first-weekend-of-march-madness-in-the-sec/

[rzrbkfan69]

Here's the Arkansas section of this article, with a couple of my notes.

1. Arkansas! Are you kidding me?

Full transparency time? This is the one that stunned me. Arkansas was 0-5 in the SEC, finished league play with a losing record, and opened March with a thud of a loss to league cellar dweller South Carolina in a game that wasn't even as close as the 19-point final margin.

Arkansas was decimated by injuries throughout the regular season, and it was so bad at times that John Calipari couldn't practice with 5 in November. But the Hogs had Boogie Fland for the first 5 league games and lost them all anyway, and Johnell Davis, the top-ranked player in the transfer portal in the offseason, seemed to lack both confidence and a defined schematic role until February. This team was a mess.

For the Hogs to beat Bill Self's preseason No. 1 Kansas and then Calipari mortal enemy Rick Pitino and St. John's on the first weekend to advance to the program's fourth Sweet 16 this decade? That's incredible.  (Perhaps he is unaware that we already beat "preseason No. 1 Kansas"...in the preseason.  The way he wrote that makes me think probably not.)

Recency bias is to blame for suggesting this is one of Calipari's best coaching jobs. With a team full of NBA players (Fland, D.J. Wagner, Zvonimir Ivišić, and Adou Thiero will all play in the NBA, at a minimum) and college stars (Davis, Jonas Aidoo), this was always a team that had second weekend potential. (Wait what? Z is going to play in the NBA? I'll take that bet.)

They just seemed terribly unlikely to cash in on their talent. Now they have, and even without Thiero — who remains sidelined with a knee injury — the Hogs are more talented than Texas Tech, the team they'll play in on Thursday in San Francisco. Pig Sooie. (Apparently hasn't been following the news on Thiero.)

Amateur article.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college-basketball/10-things-im-absolutely-overreacting-to-after-the-first-weekend-of-march-madness-in-the-sec/

Yes, Z is constantly in mock drafts as a 2nd round pick.

[Lurk]

Yes, Z is constantly in mock drafts as a 2nd round pick.

I hope he comes back. He'll continue to get bigger and stronger.

[DrMongoose]

I find it interesting that all the national pundits acted like Davis was a POY type bound for the NBA in the preseason then he got hurt then Cal broke him, etc etc and now that he's finally playing well he is just a very good college player.

[Sus-Scrofa]

I find it interesting that all the national pundits acted like Davis was a POY type bound for the NBA in the preseason then he got hurt then Cal broke him, etc etc and now that he's finally playing well he is just a very good college player.

A lot of the main pundits, and all of the CBS crew, are pissed we're doing well.

I have no idea why, it's a made for March Madness story.  Maybe if it hadn't been Kansas and St. John's it'd be different.

[Show-Me Hog]

A lot of the main pundits, and all of the CBS crew, are pissed we're doing well.

I have no idea why, it's a made for March Madness story. 

"Cal went to Arkansas and continued his fall from the top ranks of coaches, in fact accelerated it" is the story they already wrote in their minds.

Sometimes when people get a narrative in their head, it's kind of annoying to have it contradicted.

[vegashog]

it was cal leaving kentucky for arkansas. that's what got them riled up.

when was the last time a coach at a perennially top 10 'blue blood', who was not going to be fired, step down and go to a 'lesser' (in their minds) program? i can't think of one.

[Barton Fink]

https://x.com/JoshNeighbors_/status/1904972754228752506?t=ozN2A_qwDKLKK2agP3xUvA&s=19

[Texzilla]

Give that man his statue immediately

I believe it's well past time to repurpose the Willie Nelson statue in eureka springs to one of Nolan.

[Sus-Scrofa]

Waiting for the game all day tomorrow is going to be hard, but the wait from 5 to 9 or 9:30 is going to be excruciating.