NCAA Tournament Round Two (+Gonzaga) Live In Game Chat
Saturday, March 17th, 2012Live chat placed below the fold for archival purposes (also to prevent dragging the loading of the Men of the Scarlet and Gray homepage to a halt)
Live chat placed below the fold for archival purposes (also to prevent dragging the loading of the Men of the Scarlet and Gray homepage to a halt)
Live chat placed below the fold for archival purposes (also to prevent dragging the loading of the Men of the Scarlet and Gray homepage to a halt)
You have a little over 12 hours to get your picks in if you want to join us in our NCAA Tournament Pick ‘em.
You can join our Yahoo Tourney Pick’em here. The password is “vernon”.
As you have undoubtedly noticed, content here at Men of the Scarlet and Gray has slowed to a trickle. This is normally a dead time for our mostly-football Ohio State blog but that doesn’t mean we aren’t fans of our Buckeye Cagers nor are we March Madness averse.
Mike Adras, coach of the Northern Arizona basketball team and one of the 31 college coaches who vote in the ESPN/USA Today Poll, on why he voted Ohio State #1 in his final ballot, not the University of Connecticut:
“I voted for who I thought was the best team in the country based on the entire body of work during the season,” Adras told USA Today.
Saint Mary’s basketball coach Randy Bennett was a upset Sunday upon learning that his team was apparently not one of the 68 best in nation. So upset, in fact, that he uttered one of the more nonsensical things heard that day (at least until Celebrity Apprentice hit the air): “Go to BCS.
We’re not dead, we’re just hibernating.
After our (my) self-imposed hiatus, I’m trying to get back into the posting groove. Here’s a delayed round-up of some of news and goings-on in Buckeyeland and Blogtopia.
This may only affect a small percentage of MotSaG readers, but earlier this week Gawker (which owns tabloid sports blog Deadspin) suffered a major security breach that included the usernames, emails and passwords to their thousands of user accounts being hacked.
Congratulations to Miller (sorry, don’t have a first name) on his 2010 NCAA Tournament Challenge victory. He correctly predicted a championship for the Puke Blue Devilesses. As much as it pains me to say this, good on ya, mate!
Due to poor planning, the only prize this year is our undying respect and admiration.
It’s that time of year again, ladies and gents. Time to put on your wizard robes and prognostication caps and fill out your brackets once again in the Annual MotSaG Tournament Pick’em.
In years past I’ve asked people to send me a request to join the fray, but that just ends up being extra work for both me and you (but mostly me).
It’s that time again — the annual MotSaG Tournament Pick’em. We’ll be doing it over at Yahoo’s Fantasy Sports. We’ve already set up our bracket. If you participated last year, you should have received an invite already.
If you haven’t received an invite, or you’re interested in joining us this year, just drop us a note at motsag@gmail.com or send us a message through our contact page.
OSU great Clark Kellogg has taken Billy Packer’s place as color analyst for NCAA Basketball broadcasts.
“An industry source characterized it this way: CBS wanted to promote Kellogg, and Packer agreed not to stand in the way.”
At press time, there is no word on any possible conflict of interest when Ohio State makes the Final Four next March.
2007 was the year of the “Almost!!” for teams that hail from the State of Ohio.
There were eight sports teams from Ohio that either lost a championship game or had the coveted #1 ranking elude them in 2007. Never before have so many teams from a single state reached within inches of the promised land, only to fail at accomplishing the utmost feat.
For all you video gamers out there, your big man, Greg Oden, is the coverboy (man? old man?) for 2K Sports College Hoops 2K8. They got the picture on the cover wrong, though. Oden going with a finger roll? Puhhhleeze.
UPDATE:
Confirmed. Oden will declare tomorrow, and will hire an agent. He’s gone, folks.
Mike Conley and Daequan Cook will also enter the draft, but will not hire agents, preserving a way to return to OSU if their projected draft status is not favorable.