NCAA Tournament Day 2

Time to watch the second days games. The first day was rather underwhelming. I enjoyed the VCU-Duke game, mainly because Duke lost. Okay, totally because Duke lost. But no big upsets (because really, we all saw the Duke loss coming) yesterday. Day 2 starts off with Virginia-Albany.

• UVA jumps out to an early 13-2 lead. Not good for Albany.
• Albany almost gets a steal but the ball rolls out to a UVA player who drains a three. 19-2.
• Nike's Second Coming commercial still hasn't gotten old. I've got the song on my mp3 player. They should just have that song as the background music for every commercial.
• Back to back Albany buckets and now it's 21-9. But J.R. Reynolds for UVA answers back with a three. He's 4 of 4. 24-9.
• 5 of 5.
• 6 of 6. 29-11. Timeout Albany.
• 7 of 7. And just so you know, we're barely halfway through the first half.
• Both teams just trade baskets back and forth. It's 40-21 with three and a half minutes left in the half. No jokes to be found.
• I think every team in division 1 is required to have one shaggy-haired white kid who's only tall enough to play point guard, sits at the end of the bench in his long-sleeve warm-up top, and be the first player out on the court to slap high fives with everybody as they come off the court for timeouts.
• J.R. Reynolds has 23 at halftime for UVA who's up 45-25 at halftime. I'm going to the Georgia Tech-UNLV game to watch Thaddeus Young play.
• It's 25-14 late in the first half of this game, and there is hardly anybody in the crowd. What a waste of good seats.
• I just realized I don't know what Thaddeus Young looks like or what his number is.
• Just googled it, he's number 33. Now I know.
• GT was down by 14 buy they're climbing back in it by getting fouled and hitting freethrows. Note to everybody, that's how you get back into games.
• Halftime of that game with UNLV up 31-25, can't watch North Texas play Memphis, so it's time to go back to UVA-Albany, which is still at halftime.
• Lunch break. Left-over spaghetti.
• Just tuned into GT-UNLV again and it's tied at 40 with 15 mins left. Finally a good game.
• UNLV stretches it back out to a seven point lead, 55-48 with 7 mins left.
• Jeremis Smith, beastin'. Just like he did in high school. He got a tip-dunk to bring the Yellow Jackets within three, 55-52.
• Haven't seen much from Thaddeus Young yet, I'm hoping this will be the reverse-jinx.
• Right after I type that last sentence he air-balls a jumper from the freethrow line.
• First final of day 2, Virgina beats Albany 84-57. And the peasants rejoiced.
• UNLV gets bucket and a phantom foul off an inbounds play with 1:11 left to go up 61-59.
• GT turns it over on the other end with a 5-second call.
• Gaston Essengue for UNLV hits two freethrows to put UNLV up 4, 63-59 with 35 seconds left. Weird, I played against him in junior college. I forgot he transferred to UNLV.
  
• And UNLV holds on to win 67-63. Meh.

You know what, I'm tired of blogging. I'm done, I'm just going to watch the games for the rest of the day and possibly weekend. Adios.