Spring Break
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Adam Loghides
Issue date: 4/8/09 Section: Sports
Monday was the greatest day of the year for a sports fan. Super Bowl Sunday is great and the first day of the NCAA Tournament is awesome. However, opening day in MLB and the NCAA national championship game on the same day makes for a sports fan's paradise.
That said, this year's version of March Madness was truly anything but mad. There were the chosen upsets and a couple of buzzer beaters, but overall this tournament lacked the splash we usually get from the NCAA.
You could say that the tournament ended with "One Shining Ridiculously Boring Moment."
If the national championship game is the NCAA's grand finale, then the madness came to a close with a huge, dull thud.
The game tipped at 6:21. It was over at 6:25.
Is there any other calendar day that competes with the first Monday in April? Not to this sports fanatic.
Hours before the Tar Heels stomped the Spartans in their backyard, the Orioles were hitting CC Sabathia around so hard that his hat actually turned straight.
During the hoops game (if you could call it that) you had the Cardinals' bullpen imploding, the Cubs winning a game that played out like a road map created by their general manager in the offseason and Ken Griffey, Jr. hitting his first home run for the Mariners in a decade.
Hope springs eternal. Just another first Monday in April.
Although the championship game may have been a bust, there were some March moments worth mentioning.
Siena's Ronald Moore hit two 3-pointers from the same spot, one in overtime and the game-winner came in overtime number two to win against Ohio State. Wake Forest went from being ranked No. 1 in the nation to being ousted by Cleveland State. To close out the first round, Oklahoma State's Byron Eaton hit a game-winner at the buzzer to beat Tennessee.
Gonzaga gave us a memorable buzzer-beater at the Rose Garden in round two, but overall, the next two rounds were uneventful.
It was Villanova's Scottie Reynolds who gave us the defining moment of the tournament with his last-second, full-court blaze and buzzer-beating, regional-winning layup that knocked out top-seeded Pittsburgh. That's the shot this tournament will be remembered for.
That said, this year's version of March Madness was truly anything but mad. There were the chosen upsets and a couple of buzzer beaters, but overall this tournament lacked the splash we usually get from the NCAA.
You could say that the tournament ended with "One Shining Ridiculously Boring Moment."
If the national championship game is the NCAA's grand finale, then the madness came to a close with a huge, dull thud.
The game tipped at 6:21. It was over at 6:25.
Is there any other calendar day that competes with the first Monday in April? Not to this sports fanatic.
Hours before the Tar Heels stomped the Spartans in their backyard, the Orioles were hitting CC Sabathia around so hard that his hat actually turned straight.
During the hoops game (if you could call it that) you had the Cardinals' bullpen imploding, the Cubs winning a game that played out like a road map created by their general manager in the offseason and Ken Griffey, Jr. hitting his first home run for the Mariners in a decade.
Hope springs eternal. Just another first Monday in April.
Although the championship game may have been a bust, there were some March moments worth mentioning.
Siena's Ronald Moore hit two 3-pointers from the same spot, one in overtime and the game-winner came in overtime number two to win against Ohio State. Wake Forest went from being ranked No. 1 in the nation to being ousted by Cleveland State. To close out the first round, Oklahoma State's Byron Eaton hit a game-winner at the buzzer to beat Tennessee.
Gonzaga gave us a memorable buzzer-beater at the Rose Garden in round two, but overall, the next two rounds were uneventful.
It was Villanova's Scottie Reynolds who gave us the defining moment of the tournament with his last-second, full-court blaze and buzzer-beating, regional-winning layup that knocked out top-seeded Pittsburgh. That's the shot this tournament will be remembered for.
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