So far today, the Tampa pod has seen upset wins by Western Kentucky (best game of the tourney so far), San Diego (guttiest performance of the tourney so far, winning after 2 best players fouled out in OT), and Siena (surprising rout of Vandy). We’ll see if the court has enough mojo to lift the Wildcats past the Tigers…but I don’t think it does. I feel confident that this will be the rarest of rarities around here - a happy liveblog.
10:01 - I like what I see so far. Great defensive intensity and an early 9-2 lead. Clemson playing with such passion you might think Nova slapped their mothers or something.
10:08 - 12-7 at the first media break. Nova has withstood the Tigers’ opening fury. We’ll see how effectively Clemson punches back. Personally, think Booker needs more looks in the low post.
10:17 - So far, a good case study of why the Big East wanted out of the ACC/BE Challenge. 22-12, Clemson. Refs just missed a blatant Nova travel, too - should still be 22-9.
10:25 - Tigers up 13 now. It could easily be 20. Nova looks absolutely shell shocked.
10:31 - All the CBS feeds cut to Louisville/Boise. WTF?
10:34 - Fucking CBS and their Wal-Mart level of technical sophistication. The ticker has Clemson up 18.
10:36 - This must feel like a conference game for Memphis. But who cares - we want Clemson carnage!
10:44 - Nova has cut the lead to 10. Not sure whether a feed of the Clemson game is going to be available to keep live blogging, though. Very irritating.
11:08 - Pretty clear no CBS feed (at least any of the 4 I have access to) will be going back to Clemson/Nova. I guess I will be able to blog the last 7 or 8 minutes once the dull Indiana/Arkansas game ends. Damn it.
11:15 - Tiger lead down to 5, Arkansas extends its lead to 9. Still, CBS won’t switch back on any feed. Assholes.
11:19 - Think WRAL finally switching back.
11:23 - Wow, this is a vintage NC State-like collapse.
11:30 - Nova travels constantly, and it’s never whistled.
11:34 - Nova takes the lead. Not looking good at all. Sorry if we jinxed you, Tiger fans.
11:48 - Yep, we jinxed ‘em. And have to listen to the moronic ramblings of Tim Brando while Clemson can’t buy a basket. Oh well, at least we have “team playing Duke” and “team playing UNC” left to cheer for.
11:51 - I care about David Beckham even less than The Masters.
11:57 - Forget Midas, we have the Wolfpack Touch - everything we touch turns to shit. I’m checking out of this disastrous live blog.
The Tigers have pounced!
good start!
I love that SFN decided to adopt Clemson. My whole family are Clemson fans so they are naturally are my 2nd team.
Go Tigers!
dammit! … gumbel just took the clemson game away from me on direct tv!
a**hole
i don’t give a s*it about arkansas-indiana
What in the heck is wrong with CBS. They wouldn’t yank the unx game off and they yank the Clemson game before they are even a 1/4 the way through.
F you Greg Gumbel and CBS … Those of us w/out cable or the expensive march madness package on Direct Tv in the Raleigh market are more interested in Arkansas-Indiana or Louisville-Boise? … Really?
So glad I can watch name brand crappy basketball now … “But, but, IT’S INDIANA!!!!”
f*ckers
CBS is clearly not going to go back to the Clemson-Nova game as the other 2 games are at the half and we are watching Memphis-UTArlington …
joy!
I blame Gumbel
F you Greg Gumbel!
I’m having to watch the Clemson game on crappy stream-vision on March Madness on Demand … It’s a solid couple minutes behind, but at least it’s free I guess
Clemson
Better
Score
so CBS will switch.
You can get the live feed at http://www.cbs.com - not as good as TV but better than nothing.
Arlington appears to be keeping it respectable against Memphis thus far … let’s go UTA! first #16 to win ever! (maybe? hopefully?)
Well, viewers in the Raleigh market are at least getting to see that Eric Gordon - although talented - is also overrated … (I’ve felt that way all year, not just during this game) … carries the ball a lot, too
I don’t understand why CBS decided to open up extra channels for those who have digital cable if they are gonna show the Indiana game on all of the channels. They should lose their rights for next year.
Mays gets mugged on a no-call and reynolds converts on the other end, nova w/in 1
Clemson cannot make a free-throw
don’t know if you guys have the game or not…
12:40 to go, Clemson by 1
Scottie Reynolds puts Nova in the lead
the only thing that would look more familiar about this is if the game was in the RBC Center
I think it was the “happy liveblog” comment that set up the jinx … j/k
Game has looked like the Orlando Old Spice Championship game here in the 2nd half … Clemson getting called for some touchy fouls; Villanova being EXTREMELY physical and not being called for all of it … I am shocked
Terrible call against Potter there … typical
Wow … Reynolds just threw the ball to himself … it’s all going Nova’s way now
great D by clemson trumped by a miraculous shot by fisher
Holy Cow! A call for Clemson!
NC State-esque turnover for Stitt there
Dammit. Leave it to us State fans to bring our cursed jinxed nature upon the Clemson Tigers and fuck up their season.
My ears have started to burn like they do during a Wolfpack collapse
Booker fouls out on an ILLEGAL SCREEN. Quick, name a time that has happened against a Duke or Chapel Hill player.
Can’t, can you?
Suprise suprise, another mystery call
Jeez. Nova by 8. Everything going Nova’s way this half.
Disappointing…this is supposed to be the legaue’s second best team. Villanova was awful this year.
SORRY CLEMSON- WER’E PULLING FOR YOU-I KNOW WE ARE CAUSING TO LOSE.
nova is getting away with a lot of push offs and lower your shoulder type moves. not to mention the 4 steps and no dribbles the guy for nova took earlier when he banked in that 3. Clemson is getting raped by the refs this half and can’t make a dang free throw to boot.
No. Villanova has made damn near everything and Clemson is ice cold.
Dammit!!! This fucks up my bracket…not to mention, this was the team we were all getting behind. And they lose to a chump like Nova. Hell, even WE beat Nova!!!!
Free throws -probley need to make one sometime clemson-screw it! everyone I pull for frickin loses-think I will go wall paper my toliet.
Ohh my!
T on Jay Wright!!!!
There may be hope yet!
Smooth move Jay Wright…he may have coached Clemson back in the game. Tigers still can’t hit shit.
Wow …
If Clemson took a sh*t sitting on the toilet right now it still would rim out and not hit the water
Sh*t … Mays gets a touch foul call
C’mon Stitt, hit these free throws!
Holy cow … Mays fouls out on a play away from the ball
They just showed it and it was routine banging down low that probably hasn’t been called all night … grrrrrrr
What a bail out call against Sykes
A friend of mine had a great idea for a new business-Selling Lee Foulup toliets to statefans-If Lee doesn’t give a s*%# then leave him one.SORRY I’M PISS!
Complete prison rape by the striped shirts. Nova gets every call. Wright got his money’s worth with the T.
Clemson getting Wolfpacked in this one.
Rivers couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.
CLEMSON CANNOT MAKE A SHOT!!!!!! DAMNIT!!!!!
This blows
Oglesby (sp) has shot Clemson right out of this game.
Just in case anyone was wondering, I just got back to the hotel from the Birmingham games, and Louisville’s cheerleading squad had 8 guys and only 4 guys. Their captain looked just like the star pupil at evil dojo Cobra Kai, it was hilarious.
agreed CStanley
Damn Clemson.
So who we gonna pull for now???
Brando throws out the “stregth and power of the Big East” line … great … didn’t know you were such a Big East fan, Tim Brando - seeing as how you call SEC and ACC games every season
Why Clemson, why? To Villanova?
Now we have to hear all this “Big East dominant” bull sh*t … Please God, anybody but Memphis or a Big East team winning the title … ohh, and please no Chapel Hill or Duke, either
um, um, um … Go Hurricanes?
I’m going to Walmart to buy my WKU Hilltoppers shirt tomorrow … no, wait - Siena Saints … no … ALL I CAN FIND AT WALMART ARE STUPID CHAPEL HOLE SHIRTS! … Dammit!
I swear, we need to do a liveblog on Villanova or something, we’re just freaking bad luck. I would say we should pull for Tennessee but then we’d just get them knocked out in the next round.
Davidson-Why not they have a PG that can shoot!All the people that thought that Curry couldn’t play in the ACC-THANKS COACHES -YOU NO TALENT FINDING IDOTS- DON’T ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS-YES D.G. DIDN’T THINK CURRY COULD PLAY IN THE ACC ETHEIR(BUTTHOLE).
Yes, Davidson … please beat Georgetown and smack those Big East basta*ds back down to Earth
Since everyone I cheer for loses, I am now cheering for UNC :)!!!!
Everyone’s shocked that Clemp couldn’t pull all the stop’s out in a big, late season game. Don’t they have 50 years of culture to back up the reasoning that could happen? Probably not because for a team that has more chock late season games that maybe anyone in ACC history, they are going to come in every variety and flavor.
They are a program on the rise for sure, they are leaving our sorry ass in the rear view. Purnell has pushed all the right buttons EXCEPT pulling only 2 out of 12 schollies for guys who can make a damn foul shot. If your going to play a ruff’n tumble aggressive style EXPECT the refs to get trigger happy on BOTH teams. Just be able to back it up when it’s your turn to cash in on the charity stripe.
JUST GO AHEAD -GIVE THE FRICKING TITLE TO UNX OR UCLA-NO DOOK WILL NOT MAKE IT -THEY ARE GOING TO SUCK JUST LIKE THEY DID AGAINST BELMONT.IF UNX WINS THE NCAAT-I THINK I WILL POP MY EARDRUM SO I WANT HAVE TO HERE THE UNX FANS BULLSHIT.
WFT happened? I go to bed Clemson up 18, and this shit happens?
Crapdamnfuck!
I won’t tell you how good the Pac 10 is, but I will say that the Big East is dominating this tournament. They have SEVEN teams in the Final 32. That’s pretty damn incredible.
Complete collapse by Clemson. It just goes to show how hard it is to build a program. Purnell has done everything right. Clemson is going to be nasty next year. Watch out ACC.
Oglesby (sp) has shot Clemson right out of this game.
Every time that kid touched the ball he jacked it up. On long rebounds he would start shooting before he even caught the ball. Never got his feet set, never bothered squaring up. And his body language is that of a sulking baby. Whenever he gets called for a foul, no matter how legit, he beefs about it. Did that during the season a couple times when I saw them and again last night. He can be a good shooter when he doesn’t rush it, but he was a mental midget last night and it certainly didn’t help Clemson’s cause. They got panicky late and it cost them.
Oh, and what everyone else already said about the free throws. That’s ridiculous. Learn how to shoot them or don’t bother going to the tournament.
“Clemson is going to be nasty next year. Watch out ACC.”
Respectfully disagree - This has the definite look of a peak year for Clemson and at the end of the day, they are still Clemson. They started three very good seniors - Hammonds, Perry & Mays. They bring in three good player but athletically not near as good as they are losing.
With Siena waiting in the next round, this is just a terrible loss. Purnell is a really good coach but you can only go so far with good, not great players. I don’t think Purnell has ever won a game in the NCAA tournament.
This was a tough match-up for Clempson. Villanova is a team that has under-acheived all year. They have good, strong guards - and they are used to playing in the hack-fest that is the Big East. This loss is about as surprising as a Sendek-coached team collapse or Sidney saying “bigs” at least once in his press conference. In my “head” pool - I had the Tigres losing. (In my “heart” pool, I had them going a long way.)
That’s one thing I don’t like about relying on the press. We saw what can happen against teams w/ good guards who play aggressively. Unlike most teams who press, Clemson does play good half court D. However, a team w/ good guards should never let you get to that point. The foul shooting problems have killed them this year - and probably meant that they wouldn’t get too far in the tournament. They were fun, but frustrating to watch this year.
“I don’t think Purnell has ever won a game in the NCAA tournament.”
That’s correct …
I think I have stated this one other time. Purnell will not be the head coach in 3 years. I have nothing against the man, and hell he may even be a decent coach, but it just so happens he coaches at clemson. Have they ever done anything in basketball? ever? This was the first year they have ever made an ACC final. WTF. You have witnessed the peak of what this team can accomplish. Its going to be down hill from here. They have more futility at Clemson than even state fans have endured. They can’t win one big game, they can come close, but in the end its still a loss. This is only setting clemsons expectations higher and because its clemson I just don’t see purnell reaching those expectations.
Clemson = Can’t Seal the Deal(Unless They Are Cheating!) I changed the channel when they were up by over 15 and didn’t even know the score until I checked my brackets a few minutes ago.
Does anyone see the resemblance of Oglesby and the little fellow with the banjo in Deliverance?
“Rim out and not hit the water”? That’s one of the better ones I’ve ever heard~!!!!ROFL!
Lovely nova lucky to get in the tourney , beats clemson, unx given a free pass to sweet 16 ,dook lucky to beat belmont ,and we finish dead last wow lets see what sid can do .
If Oglysby learned WHEN to take shots he would be shooting 50%. He’s got a beautiful jump shot and he’s shooting 41% taking ridiculous shots. If he took even half a second to set it up and didn’t jack up threes from mid court he’d easily be shooting 50%.
Oh yeah, and in the Duke game… Paulus has already flopped off a screen like he was hit by a shovel. Huggins is pissed after down 12-4 and called for a technical.
BJD, just dropping by to see if I could interest you in adopting Wazzu for the game Thursday night. I could get you a Cougs sweat shirt fedez if you’d wear it! ;>)