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NCAAT Discussion Thread

Bill Oliver: I had shared my thoughts about Dickerson, and Shelf in a previous thread, one where my focus was on why Shelf let Dickerson return to the floor given the bizarre performance he exhibited, but mostly after witnessing how Kansas erased the 10 point deficit and went up by three with Dickerson on the bench.

I did not think at the time about point shaving, but can appreciate how a Jay Hawk fan would question that possibility.

NCAAT Discussion Thread

Plenty of folks associating Dickinson and point shaving. I kinda think it was he just wasn't as advertised. The SEC got in 6, maybe 7 teams more than they should have.
Kentucky is officially a MASH unit...wouldn't surprise if Illinois advances. St John just couldn't shoot. Florida looks beatable against UCONN. Auburn needs a psychiatrist.
Some good catchup today. Let it rip.
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Bridgeman Funeral

Went to the funeral today. Saw a lot of past players. Said hello to Doc Rivers. But that’s not the story. I met Junior back about 1988. His son was in the band at Male with my daughter. Doris and my wife worked the fb concession stand a couple of times. Still not the story.
Speakers were David Novak, Paul Thompson(bus. connection), Kevin Cosby, Star Jones, Chauncey Billops and Bob Russell. All had great stories. What came through is how humble, hard working and faith based he was (first Wendy’s was in Milwaukee the hood; didn’t go great until he bailed out one the workers and things took off, because the employees realized how much he cared). He would work until midnight and then drive home to Louisville. We could all do well to follow his example on how to live.
You can watch the entire service on YouTube.
REST IN PEACE JUNIOR
I have followed Junior from the time Denny signed him out of East Chicago Washington, after watching his #1 recruit and Junior’s HS teammate Pete Trgovich sign with UCLA. It was easy following Junior, as he was not only the owner of those many local Wendy’s restaurants, it was not uncommon to see him working inside the one at the corner of Bardstown RD and Grinstead, as he was demonstrating the leadership that was a significant ingredient of his life.

Perhaps what serves for me as an indication as to just how special Junior was as a human being, was witnessing the very long term and close relationship that Junior had with Bob Russell at SECC. Bridgeman was truly a man of faith with incredible integrity, most humble and caring for those around him.

His 12-15 ft “off the class bank shots” while at UL will remain etched in my memory, but it was his life after basketball that is a testament to what a great person that he was.
Never ever heard anyone say a bad word about Junior Bridgeman.

This is hilarious

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Louisville vs Nebraska

I posted earlier that TCU only has 3 players that score. If you shutdown just one of those players you would shutdown a third of their offense. TCU vs Louisville matchup is obvious that pairings aren’t made using metrics. They are based on connections one team might have with another. Arkansas vs St. John’s is another example let’s do away with the corruption of the human element and feed everything into a computer and make it fair.
Reminds me of all the times Louisville was in UCLA's bracket under Crum. It was ironic that Crum defeated UCLA for his first championship.
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