What a day for March Madness. UNC game was a dandy until the end, but the nightcap games were the real deal. You have Gonzaga vs. Western Kentucky, and The Dukies vs. Texas.
For our pool, we reallllllllllly needed Gonzaga, and Duke. Both games were tight throughout, and in true March Madness fashion, left me feeling queesy before the final buzzer sounded. Gonzaga was down at the half, but started the second half strong. According to the little box score at the top of the screen, it looked like the Zags had a 7 point lead in the second half. Before you know it, there is under a 10 seconds, and Gonzaga has the ball in a tie game. Go figure. Dmitry Goodson drives the lane, and puts it in. .9 seconds left, Western Kentucky chucks up a 3, and it falls short. Zags win. Gut wretching game 1 over.
Game 2. Duke had a 10 point lead towards the end, and, yes you guessed it. Texas goes on a 13-3 run to tie game. After a huge tip in by Kyle Singler to put Duke up 2, AJ Abrams spots up in the corner and rims a 3 in and out. WOWOWOWOWOW. Jumpoff J and I are going nuts. Later in the game (sorry its a blur, too much excitement) the ball was being tipped around, and almost out of bounds, Mr. Jon Scheyer makes the smartest play i've seen in a long time. He throws the ball to the other side of the court and wastes more time. With under 10 seconds to go, this was the games most important play. Duke ran it down, and got fouled. Elliot Williams missed both free throws, but David Mcclure was there to tip the ball out to Gerald Henderson, who then got fouled. Duke sinks the game winner at the line, and pandamonium breaks out. Well not really, but the DUKIES WIN BABY. THATS AWESOME WITH A CAPITAL A.
Jon Scheyer for your outstanding awareness and court savy, you get the picture of my blog.
Welcome to the madness
-Brian
PS. Jumpoff J celebrated a birthday yesterday. I was in AC, hence this being late. Happy Bday John, may all your teams epically fail this year, minus Hofstra.
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