Hey!  ETSU!  Why couldn’t you beat PITT?  You “had them” — as your post-game quotes go–, you were ahead late in the game, then you crashed against the “5 minutes left”  and PITT pulled ahead to a 10 point win.  Damned you ETSU, you’re more damnable than the 16 seeds that get rolled to 40 point defeats, because you are what assures that history is not made — because the next time a 16 seed will be in earshot of winning against a 1 seed will be in, like, 5 years — and they’ll probably be just like you, ETSU, with a similarly insane abbreviation, and with the same  nearing the end of the game choking away when the win is in eye-sight (the sudden shift from “having nothing to lose” to “having this game to lose”).  Thus the old cliche “It’ll happen one of these days” — that a 16 will beat a 1 — will always be a cliche.

Interesting to note just how much ETSU f’ed this one up.  A win for ETSU would have meant that the record of 1-seeds over 16-seeds would have gone from 0-99 to 1-99 — poetically a pretty beautiful play on things.  But ETSU has now flunked Poetry.

If you’re like me, your relatively minor interest in the college basketball tournament pretty much dissipates completely after the first weekend.  And thus it’s all over for me.  It’s been fun seeing these young men try to put a round thing into a basket, but they will now carry on doiing so without my attention.

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at 10:46 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.