Day 23: Overtime and Comebacks

Happy St. Patty's day!

I've been sitting in my apartment watching basketball all day. Due to the weird blackout policies of CBS, I've had to keep the TV on while switching between games using MMOD.

Two days ago, the talking heads were moaning about the lack of upsets. Well, it all paid off today. Lack of first round upsets = awesome, compelling games between two teams with momentum. Case in point, in the first game of the day, No. 1 Ohio State was almost upset by Xavier. The game went into overtime and Ohio squeaked by.

Later, both WSU/Vanderbilt and Pitt/VCU went into overtime. Unfortunately, the Washington State Cougars didn't quite make it. Thought they battled hard through two overtimes, they weren't able to finish. They let Vanderbilt claw back from a big deficit. By the way, comebacks are awesome. The Pitt/VCU game went down to the wire, ultimately being decided by free throws. VCU may have lost, but their 2nd quarter comeback was pretty neat.

Anyway, with WSU's loss, the remaining Pac-10 teams are UCLA, USC, and Oregon. UCLA will be playing later tonight. The rest of the country will be out drinking. And if all goes well, the Bruins will take care of business against a similarly defensive-minded team. Go Bruins!

UPDATE: I'm watching the UCLA/Indiana game right now and it's very tiring. Neither team can buy a basket, and both are playing stifling defense. This must be the lowest scoring game ever.

UPDATE 2: It's halftime and the score is 20-13, UCLA's favor. At this rate, are we going to reach 50 points? To use a goofy Pokemon analogy, this is like watching Metapod vs. Metapod.

UPDATE 3: Damn it. CBS switched the game to Michigan State/UNC. What the hell? You don't switch the game in the middle of another one. Nobody on the West Coast cares about Michigan State or UNC. Plus, the geniuses decide to black out the UCLA game on MMOD so I can't watch on the internet.

UPDATE 4: In the last 5 minutes, Indiana started to rain threes. This cut the deficit dramatically. UCLA barely scraped by thanks to some clutch free throws. Now excuse me while I have a heart attack.