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Bill Raftery Just Likes To Be Naked
AwfulAnnouncing — Not only did Bill Raftery talk about Joe Alexander's "Onions", but he spent the better part of the night filling the airwaves with innuendo. Including how he likes to spend nights naked.....seriously. I spliced together a few of his highlights from Thursday night for your enjoyment.... "The answer is take it off."- Verne Lundquist "Late at night I favor that myself."- Bill Raftery Quote of the tournament if you ask me. I love me some Raft. Other Raftery Highlights From Last ...

Raftery Is No Gus Johnson, But He'll Do
The Sporting Blog — By Chris Mottram Biggest downside of living in North Carolina: They refuse to switch from the UNC game to a closer contest, even when UNC is up 20 FREAKING POINTS with four minutes left. (Actually, the biggest downside of N.C. is no 7-11s. I mean, seriously, how am I to live without Slurpees? What am I supposed to mix my vodka with?) So, needless to say, I missed the vast majority of last night's WVU-Xavier game. Luckily, Brian Powell put together a highlight video ...

Raftery Is No Gus Johnson, But He'll Do
The Sporting Blog — By Chris Mottram Biggest downside of living in North Carolina: They refuse to switch from the UNC game to a closer contest, even when UNC is up 20 FREAKING POINTS with four minutes left. (Actually, the biggest downside of N.C. is no 7-11s. I mean, seriously, how am I to live without Slurpees? What am I supposed to mix my vodka with?) So, needless to say, I missed the vast majority of last night's WVU-Xavier game. Luckily, Brian Powell put together a highlight video ...

Bill Raftery Was Superb, Enjoys the Birthday Suit at Night
FanIQ Blog — Last night during the game thread, I became aware for the first time that a few fans don't like Bill Raftery. We're not friends. I love me some Raf. Last night Bill was at his finest and Awful Announcing game through with a highlight tape of Raftery gems. Most notably, the quote of the tournament thus far: Verne: "The answer is take it off, get rid of it." Raf: "Late at night, I favor that myself." Who can blame the man? I was equally amused that Lundquist decided ...

Lessons Learned From the Tournament
Play is Under Review — By Sunday afternoon, I was fed up. Every game was a blow out and you just expected Kansas to run Davidson out of the gym, I mean football stadium. We at least got one good game and had an added bonus as Gus Johnson was calling the game. (Side note: I loved the way he kept saying Sasha Kahn's name. I sure did sound like Chaka Kahn.)If Curry had taken the ball in the lane and sent the game into overtime like he should have, I believe Johnson's head would have blown off his body. It would have been too much for him to handle. Since most of the games were terrible, here's some random thoughts/things we learned going into the Final ...

The 10 Best Games of the 2008 NCAA Tournament
College Hoops Journal — Who said it was a down year? Give me 10 games of the caliber listed below and I’ll be fine if the other 54 are snoozers. I do run a bracket pool every year, and in the final e-mail I compile this list, so I’m quite happy to have another outlet to share my opinion on the matter. Let’s relive the 10 best out of the 64 that were played. I judge the game with complete disregard for when the game took place in The Tournament. I judge it on how into it the teams, crowd, announcing pair, people around me, etc. This is subjective, but I think you’d have a hard time taking any other game and putting it into this list. (Maybe ...

Raftery Is No Gus Johnson, But He'll Do
The Sporting Blog — By Chris Mottram Biggest downside of living in North Carolina: They refuse to switch from the UNC game to a closer contest, even when UNC is up 20 FREAKING POINTS with four minutes left. (Actually, the biggest downside of N.C. is no 7-11s. I mean, seriously, how am I to live without Slurpees? What am I supposed to mix my vodka with?) So, needless to say, I missed the vast majority of last night's WVU-Xavier game. Luckily, Brian Powell put together a highlight video ...

Raftery Is No Gus Johnson, But He'll Do
The Sporting Blog — By Chris Mottram Biggest downside of living in North Carolina: They refuse to switch from the UNC game to a closer contest, even when UNC is up 20 FREAKING POINTS with four minutes left. (Actually, the biggest downside of N.C. is no 7-11s. I mean, seriously, how am I to live without Slurpees? What am I supposed to mix my vodka with?) So, needless to say, I missed the vast majority of last night's WVU-Xavier game. Luckily, Brian Powell put together a highlight video ...

Five Early-Season Team Surprises
College Hoops Journal — And like that, we’re 1/5 through the college basketball season. While clubs like North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Connecticut, Gonzaga — heck, even a school like Wake Forest, who was expected to be a player — have started strong out of the gate, per usual, some schools sneak up on you. Here’s CHJ’s five most pleasant of surprises. Ohio State. Doing it with defense. More than eight blocks per game; holding opponents to 50 points per tip-off. And the Buckeyes have knocked off Miami and Notre Dame so far. Still: its only played five games, albeit without a loss. Waiting on B.J. Mullens (averaging 6.5 points and five ...