They are in shock

Wow, we realize that the Tar Heels were reeling but not to this extent.

CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina had the Will to win Saturday. It just wasn't enough.

Despite overcoming a 20-point first half deficit and getting 24 points from junior Will Graves, the Tar Heels lost to Georgia Tech 73-71 when Graves' last-ditch try at a game-winner with 1.7 seconds left fell short.

The Tar Heels, coming off the worst margin of defeat in the Roy Williams era, at Clemson last Wednesday, got eaten up by guard Iman Shumpert (17) and by their own mistakes (11 turnovers, minus-3 rebounding) in the first half.

Yellow Jackets, you deserve more than our usual This Is Sparta! award. To go into The Dean and get that win, that deserves something more. You get our rare MOTHERFUCKER award...

Ya hear that nerds? That's for you!

The secret

How do you win against Oklahoma? You concuss their best player.



Oklahoma falls, Blake Griffin concussed.

Oh, This Is Sparta btw...

Clemson thinks they're tough

The Clemson Tigers ass rapes Duke by 27 points.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski spent most of the second half in his seat, hands over his mouth. Three times he subbed his entire squad to find a spark, but the Blue Devils never got closer than 20 points over the last 9 minutes.

And speaking of ass love, this is Sparta!!!!!!!! Congrats Tigers, you get and deserve this award.

Miscellaneous thoughts and the final countdown

First, the news...

UCLA forward Nikola Dragovic angry over the inferior quality of opponent, tosses ex-girlfriend down stairs, misses game.

The 20-year-old Dragovic of Belgrade, Serbia, went to the apartment he shared with the woman and found his belongings had been dumped out front, police officer April Harding said.

"He and the ex-girlfriend began to argue. He got mad and pushed her down," Harding said.

Dragovic was taken into custody and booked on suspicion of misdemeanor battery. Bail was set at $20,000.

The arrest caused him to miss No. 4 UCLA's 76-42 exhibition victory over Biola.

Dayton transfer Desmond Adedeji celebrates making the starting lineup at center, subsequently gets arrested and jeopardizes position.

Stony Brook University police charged a student who is expected to start at center for the school's basketball team with driving while intoxicated yesterday morning.

Desmond Adedeji, a 6-foot-9, 305-pound transfer student from the University of Dayton, was pulled over on the campus' South Drive at 6:15 a.m., a police spokesman said.

Binghamton University's Malik Alvin gets punished for practicing safe sex...

Binghamton University basketball player Malik Alvin has been suspended from the men's team until legal matters related to an incident last month at Wal-Mart are resolved.

Vestal police have charged Alvin, 20, with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, after an alleged incident with a Wal-Mart employee who police said confronted Alvin for alleging leaving the store without paying for a box of condoms.

Hey, did you know you can book the Duke cheerleaders for your next event?

(pause)

We were gonna show a picture of the current squad, but... Just click on the link if you wanna see.

So, we are approximately one week away from the beauty of college hoops. We must say that this off season was HORRIBLE. People thought that all we did was talk about AP news clippings. We do talk about games and teams and such, you know. Like original content! For example, today we will be posting the preseason blogpoll. And starting in about a week we will begin our Always Be Closing and This Is Sparta awards. So I guess we are trying to say hold on baby, the season is almost upon us.

Jayhawks - You teh winner!

I don't care what anyone says, if Chris Douglas-Roberts did not miss those two free throws and Derrick Rose did not miss that one, the Tigers would have been crowned king last night.



Memphis? Alec Baldwin is here on an errand of mercy and he has a lesson for you...



All in all a very exciting game though. I was watching it with the guys, some of whom don't even like college basketball. And even they were into that game!

End game bracket -



Tomorrow we will have our Moment of Zen and also our off-season posting rules. College hoops is now done until winter. =(

Without you we're nothing...

...says UNC to Tyler Hansbrough.

North Carolina will worship retire Hansbrough's jersey as soon as he leaves!

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Tyler Hansbrough will soon take his place among a select group of North Carolina basketball greats.

The junior was honored as national player of the year by Sporting News on Tuesday, ensuring he will become just the eighth Tar Heel to have his number retired.

For a North Carolina men's player to have his jersey retired, he must win at least one of six national player of the year awards: The Associated Press, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Sporting News, the Wooden Award and the Naismith Award.



LSU gets desperate and contacts Tim Floyd about the job?!

Sources told the paper Floyd did not express interest in LSU, but he is a natural candidate for the job because he was living in Louisiana when USC hired him in 2005. Floyd is close with John Brady, who was fired by LSU in February, and said he would not want to follow him. But LSU remains interested, sources said.

Sure, you may say that when Jesus O.J. Mayo leaves for the sucktastic NBA, Floyd will have little talent and LSU may look attractive. But wow, this school fucking treats their coaches like shit. Why would you want to subject yourself to that?


Portrait of a man getting fucked over...

Almost famous

How does it feel to get a mention in the awesome blog With Leather?

How does it feel to get a mention in the awesome blog With Leather next to a smoking hot picture of Maxim's Ashley?

How does it feel for Charlotte to hammer Clemson 82 to 72 thereby winning the THIS IS SPARTA!!!! award?



I think the Godfather of Soul can sum it up best...

You thought I forgot...

No way Mark Turgeon!

40 to 28 at the half, and your Aggies got outplayed nearly 2 to 1 in the second half to get beat 67 to 78 by the Wildcats?!

ALWAYS BE CLOSING!

Hey A&M, I'm on an errand of mercy.

It's double awards time!

Drew Drew Drew... Michigan State led UCLA by 11 points at the half!

How could you let Mbah a Moute take over the game like that?! UCLA ends up winning 68 to 63.


Ummmm, insert your own comment here...

Sparties, you guys get the first Always Be Closing award. Aren't you proud.


Put that Gatorade DOWN! Gatorade's for CLOSERS!

Next!

Oregon... That was simply embarrassing. St. Mary's came out and fucking bitch slapped you 99 to 87!

Gaels (whatever the hell those are), you receive our The Is Sparta!!! award for laying the lumber to the Ducks. Methinks there may be a missing persons report for Oregon on next week's blogpoll.


Spartans, prepare for glory!

Light post

Work surrounds me and blogpollers want to know why Gardner-Webb is not getting more love.

The Week One Blogpoll will be released by Wednesday AM.

Hey, the Vols think they are who they thought they were!



Improved depth should enable Pearl to dole out minutes based on defensive intensity, which players peg as the reason they blew a 17-point halftime lead in an NCAA regional semifinal against Ohio State.

"We’re fixing that now," (Wayne) Chism said of the team’s defense. "Our biggest key is improving our defense and stopping the other team’s top players. If you don’t go hard, you don’t play."

Always. Be. Closing. They would have won that award if I had it last season. What a meltdown against Oden and the Buckeyes.

Give it to them!

Ok folks we have our first OFFICIAL recipient for the "This is SPARTA!!!" award.


Wha? Widon? Yeup.

Congratulations to Gardner-Webb who put the bull whip to Kentucky 84 to 68 in Lexington. The Bulldogs Grayson Flittner was a madman, scoring 22 points on the Wildcats!

"You can't just show up on the court and think you're going to beat somebody because you wear a certain jersey," said Gillispie.

Looks like the hunter became the hunted.


That's right motherfuckers. This IS Sparta.

And for those of you like me who thinks that ESPN's Sage Steele is HOT, here she is talking about the game.

Another award

So we have our ABC award. Talking with my wife Mrs. "March To Madness" while watching 300 I was like "I need another award for teams that overcame insurmountable odds and won a game. I thought...

"Sparta"

Mrs. March To Madness said "But don't they lose in the end?"

Well it's not about that. Don't bring logic into this. It's about the spirit of competition!

"Basketball's stupid."

So with my wife's support I now have another award!

The This Is Sparta Award. For the team that people picked to lose, but ended up kicking so much ass.

Mr. Data make it so!


Spartans, welcome!

New weekly award

I think I came up with a new award I will give out once a week when the season starts. It will be called the "Always Be Closing (ABC)" Award. This will be given to the team who had a seemingly unbeatable lead only to blow it at the end and lose the game.

Mr. Data, make it so!


Coffee's for CLOSERS!


(HT: Hey Jenny Slater)