1. PYB would like to congratulate the NU basketball team and Doc Sadler on their 75-60 win over Missouri yesterday. Despite costing PYB a good chunk of change, the Cornhuskers dominated the game on a day when they could have packed it in and got an early break on spring break (See Oklahoma). Unlike the Sooners, despite having some awful games, NU didn't totally quit on its coach, showed some balls and went out and got the win. Can they test Texas A&M today? They certainly did in College Station in their first B12 game this year. We shall see, but this team is always one game away from almost beating a Top 10 team or losing by 20 to a shitty team. Who knows. No line from Vegas just yet, but 9.5 is the early guess.
We can't offer further analysis, as we were stuck in a customer meeting at work. Fear not, we did find time to throw more money away by betting the second half via text message. But looks like Doc stuck to a tighter rotation and benched the guys who can't make layups or free throws. Good start.
2. PYB would like to note the further decline of college basketball officiating. How it can decline from the awful state of the last 25 years is beyond comprehension, but it has happened. The Big 12 has the worst officiating in the nation, somehow worse than the Big 12 football officiating---which is amazing in its own right.
That being, the Seton Hall v. Providence game Tuesday evening was the biggest job of referee grandstanding in recent memory, as officials rattled of six to seven HORRIFIC calls that helped Providence nearly come back and tie a game where the Friars trailed by 29 points midway through the second half. Clearly taken over by the emotion of the Madison Square Garden crowd, the referees made bad call after bad call, hamming it up to the delight of the fans. Call the game, stay out of the way, you're not that good at your job, high school principals shouldn't ever be cocky, and nobody likes you. Three main pet peeves stand above the rest:
--The continued trend of college referees allowing NBA-like continuation on three-point plays
--The fervor with which the fat slobs signify the basket good in said three-point play, as if they were a fan of the team that will now be going to the free throw line, or an obese umpire ringing up a batter against whom he holds a ten-year grudge.
--The double-whistle three-point play, where the official blows the whistle once, signals the basket good, and tweets his fucking whistle again to draw attention to what a solid call he's making. Fuck you. One whistle, arm down, go get the ball.
2. Is there a bigger douche than this guy? The fan who wears his team's gear to a tournament where his team is playing, but is not playing that day? Ahem, fagot KU fans...Strutting around their hometown arena with the swagger of Biff from Back to the Future....Not sure which is more funny--the fact that they act like the 1990s Bulls because they own the Big 12, or KU fans' total lack of humility, knowing the perennial choke job that awaits them a week later in the NCAA Tournament.
3.--Best friends on one....
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