The Mountain Top, UConn, and Big East Pranksters
January 27, 2008 11:33 am by donald- Say hello to The Mountain Top, which covers West Virginia basketball (It’s the first blog I know about that covers West Virginia — have there been others?). The guys (or gals) over there do a good job in summarizing the WVU-Georgetown game last night. What a game it was — it came down to Da’Sean Butler driving the baseline and putting up a shot which Patrick Ewing Jr. blocked/goaltended, thus securing the Georgetown win. Check out the highlights and judge the call for yourself:
(I have to give major props to ESPN for realizing that they could never fight sports bloggers recording their content and putting it up. Their new web video player, and the ability to embed it in any page is dope. They in turn get way more control than before– they control what content gets showed, maintain their branding, and know exactly which bloggers are doing this. Brilliant move, guys.)
- UConn!!!!!! Calhoun sums up the gigantic win:
“To do what we did is certainly the greatest I’ve had and it’s going to get up there since the national championship team beat Georgia Tech,” he said. “Quite frankly, they deserve more than a hug from me. They deserve one from the state of Connecticut, from the university, from our fans.”
- Check this out. Apparently some prank callers got a handle of the weekly Big East media conference call number/passcode. Normally, journalists ask questions to the coaches in the league. This past week, the prank callers asked questions about the sexual relations between the students and players. The link has the audio of the call, which is slightly amusing.
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4 Responses to “The Mountain Top, UConn, and Big East Pranksters”
I think we saw a combination of goaltending and swallowed whistles. The Mountaineers are very, very good and caught a pair of bad breaks in the end. Not all W’s and L’s are created equally.
With 10 seconds left, the best Georgetown can do is a contested three-pointer off the dribble? Give Sapp credit for making it of course, but I hope that Thompson has his boys better prepared to execute when the game’s on the line. There’s bigger games to play.
Contrast the Hoyas final possession with how West Virginia used the last six seconds. I’ll grant that the timeout makes it easier, but the play the Mountaineers executed to go full court and get a layup is one of the best I’ve seen.
Although it might have been a goaltend, I saw it many times and still can’t decide, I am glad the ref swallowed his whistle on that one. Not that I wanted either team to win or lose, but a goaltend call there ends the game with WVU winning. You can’t give a team a victory or a loss on the assumption that a shot would have gone in had the infraction not occurred.
I agree with Coach O. So hard to tell, and you don’t want the ref to decide WVU wins without a ball actually going trough the hoop. Good no-call.
[…] (Editor’s note: I retract my original love for ESPN. You’ll notice that if you go to this page, there is no embed text, so it seems like you can’t put it in your blog. If you look at other game highlights, you’ll notice the same thing. But, if you go to one of their videos with some fucktards (excluding Jay Bilas, of course) wanking it around a table discussing “bracketology” — well, of course then you can embed the video. Dumb.) […]
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