Game Recap
Location: Gators Bar, Madeira Beach, Florida
I have to admit, Florida
is a great place to watch the Final Four.
Especially over Spring Break.
Florida does become Michigan South, and Michigan Men and Women took over
Gators and claimed it as “Crisler Arena South!”.
Photo of Pre-Game and the Maize
Rage Representing!!!
What impressed me the most was the
hospitality of the staff and a couple of them even joining in when yours truly
led the crowd the singing of the Victors immediately after the National
Anthem! Funny thing was, there were some
salty Spartans in attendance that tried singing their fight song immediately
afterwards (LOL!) and were LOUDLY BOOED for their effort.
And why on God’s Green Earth
would you try to sing your Fight Song when your school lost in the 2nd
round? To an 11-Seed????
Obviously, these were the same folks that were
rooting for the Ramblers…
Clearly, the first half was
not the Wolverines best effort on the season and things looked a little
grim. Not having stats to look at, I had
to wait until half time to see how bad things actually looked. They were bad. 30% and 15% from the 2 and 3 Point lines. Simpson was struggling, but was playing his
defense on the opposite end. (Zavier
would finish with 0 points – More on that in a minute.) However, the 2nd
half started and things got a lot better.
It was just under the 10:00
mark and Michigan had battled back, lost the closed gap and battled back again
and Duncan Robinson was fed a pass near the top of the Key and he let a 3
fly. And it was perfect. That’s when I said to myself, “They’re gonna’
win this thing. I don’t know how yet,
but They’re gonna’ win.”
What happened next is still a bit
of a blur, but between the Poole Party, Robinson finding the hole and
Mo-Buckets grabbing rebounds and driving the hole, along with an awesome assist
to Matthews, well, the Ramblers in the Room were drowned out by a bunch of
screaming Wolverines. And Mo-Buckets did
this to Raftery’s Glasses on his OB Scramble!!!
Good Bye Sister Jean, We Hardly
Knew You At All…But You had the grace to hold yourself while the Ramblers fell…
I know, a cheap rip-off, but was
being sang by a few people when they were rolling Sister Jean off the floor…
One More Game….40 Minutes of
Hoops
MMQ Prediction: I’m not changing NOW!! Michigan wins a tight one!!! Do I thnk Michigan can win? Of Course!
Do I think they will? They’ll
need to play at a better level than they’ve played the last two games…And I
think they will! See below!!!
Is it 9:20 yet? This has to be the longest day of the year!!!
Just Win the Game…Don’t
worry about stats at this point, but a few numbers none the less:
Falica trying to spoil the
Wolverine Party, but stats are stats:
Beilein sits at 799 Wins. Wouldn’t winning a National Championship and
clinching 800 Wins at the same time be a nice memory for Coach B?
Michigan’s last 6 games from an
offensive Perspective (Why we should NOT BE WORRIED about Simpson’s Performance
on Saturday):
Michigan vs. Montana – Stinker…
Michigan vs. Houston - Stinker…
Michigan vs. Texas A&M –
BOOOOOOMMM!!!
Michigan vs. FSU – Stinker…
Michigan vs. Loyoal – Stinker…
Michigan vs. Villanova – I hope
the pattern HOLDS!!!
Tom Izzo All Time March:
48-20 = 0.706
John Beilein All Time March
Record:
37-12 = 0.755
Why Spartans Are So Salty…
So, sitting in the bar down here
in Florida, I was fortunate enough to have a Sparty sitting directly behind me
reminding everyone that nobody has had an easier “path” to the Final Four and
Championship Game than Michigan.
The average seed that Michigan has beaten is 9. To that and to him I said (say):
So What?
All Michigan could do is play the
teams that were put in front of them. And I
guarantee you that everyone who lost to them wouldn’t want to play Loyola again. Guarantee it.
What I’m saying is that this has been
a great ride and sparty is HATING it.
Kind of what it felt like to watch sparty’s success in football as a fan
of the all time winningest college football team. Just sit back and take it sparty….
Just sit back and take it like a
man. Ooops.....Sorry. I understand why you can’t do that now!!!
Becareful sparty, or there will
be a Michigan Plate somewhere with MTSU on it!!!
BEFORE THE FF - CBS Names Beilein COTY!!!
It's not that anyone thought John Beilein's Michigan team
was bad. It's just that not many people outside the state thought of Michigan
at all for most of the early season. We were all focused on Michigan's more
hyped, more talented in-state rival, Michigan State. But the Wolverines broke into the AP
Top 25 on Jan. 15, two days after beating Michigan State in East Lansing. They
hung around the bottom of the top 25 for the next month, until suddenly they
became the hottest team in the nation.
Michigan's last loss was Feb. 6, two days after the Super Bowl. The
Wolverines have won 13 in a row, and Beilein is going to his first Final Four
since his team lost to Louisville in the 2013 title game. And
they're doing it on defense -- despite Beilein's longstanding reputation as an
offensive guru, this team is building its reputation on one of the nation's
best defenses. That's the reason why the 65-year-old Beilein, one of the most
respected coaches in the game, is CBSSports.com's Coach of the Year.
There's one more thing that makes it special that Beilein
is our national coach of the year. This season of college basketball has been
shadowed by the FBI scandal that broke in September. Yet here is Beilein at the
end of the season, still winning despite his reputation -- among peers -- as
the cleanest high-major coach in the country. To be sure, Beilein won this
award because his team vastly exceeded its expectations in making a Final Four
run. But it's pretty sweet, during a dark college basketball season like this
one, to be able to award a coach who is respected for things other than
winning. -- Reid Forgrave
Off to the Beach!!!
Hail To The Victors!!! LET’S
GO BLUE!!!
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