VCU

[SFL]

I was watching Channel 12 News and a Jayhawk fan said they basically played a JV team.

In fairness, the Jayhawk fan was interviewed at The Wheel in Lawrence. She looked like an 18 year old trust fund baby with a big mouth... what would you expect?

[ShockerFever]

Kansas City Star....

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/27/2756291/kansas-vs-vcu-elite-8.html

In what will go down as one of the greatest upsets in NCAA Tournament history, Virginia Commonwealth beat the No. 1-seeded Kansas Jayhawks 71-61 on Sunday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, ending KU's season one win shy of reaching the Final Four.

A tradition like no other..... 8)

You have to be in stellar company to be recipients of back-to-back "greatest upsets in NCAA tournament history" lines.

[Rosewood]

Re: VCU

For all the KU apologists and wannabes....thoughts?

I'm neither and I didn't expect this.

[WuDrWu]

I was watching Channel 12 News and a Jayhawk fan said they basically played a JV team.

In fairness, the Jayhawk fan was interviewed at The Wheel in Lawrence. She looked like an 18 year old trust fund baby with a big mouth... what would you expect?

To see her on her knees?


Seriously though folks....I don't know if anyone has been watching ESPN, but you can't see VCU highlights without seeing Devlin Court.

[jocoshock]

KU: The Worst Loss in NCAA History!

http://uponfurtherreview.kansascity.com/?q=node/3069

For one thing, VCU was about as close to the last at-large team in the tournament as you can get and, as I’ve pointed out, laughed at by the pundits. Kansas was the second highest #1 seed in the tournament and the only one left.

Not only did Kansas get beat considerably worse than the other two #1s, but VCU had to actually play one more game than George Mason and LSU just to get there.

Have there been worse losses in NCAA history?

Was KU’s triple OT loss to North Carolina for the national championship in 1957 a “worse” loss? Was KU’s 18-point loss in the title game in 1940 to Indiana (one of the largest margins of defeat in a title game) a “worse” loss? Was KU’s 12/30 performance from the line in their three-point loss to Syracuse in the 2003 national title game a “worse” loss?

You can argue it all day long. But, on March 27, 2010, the worst loss in NCAA history is #1 KU 61, #11 VCU 71.

[WuDrWu]

I said after the VCU game that Jamie Skeen was the best player to step on Devlin Court this season.


Turns out I was not only right, but it wasn't close.

[another shocker]

Re: VCU

For all the KU apologists and wannabes....thoughts?

They'll be back, fresh as daisies, posting some kind of links to this, that or the other, if WSU stumbles in NYC.

[WuDrWu]

One last comment....I hate KU with almost every fiber of my existence, but I have a lot of respect for Coach Self and the way he handles himself, and has always handled himself.

Not to mention he's a whale of a coach.

[martymoose]

Where is Nightwatchmare at?

I think after what happened last year, the administrators have an automatic temporary ban on him good for 5 days after the Jayhawks get booted by a midmajor.

[jocoshock]

Kansas City Stations:

http://www.kmbc.com/video/27338459/detail.html

Businesses Take a Hit After KU Loss - T-Shirts Won't Go to Waste (?)
Dewey Defeats Truman....

http://www.fox4kc.com/videobeta/?watchId=ce1a3d1d-9d32-4175-989d-921d6846d8c9

:cry: :yahoo: :yahoo:

[ShockerFever]

Agreed about Self. Class act all the way.

Don't give a flip about their obnoxious fans and thuggy players. The pre-Richmond episode really made this loss all the more better.

Maybe KU should request that all the midmajors be out of their side of the bracket.

Now we know why they only wanna play middies in Rainbowtown.

[Cdizzle]

One last comment....I hate KU with almost every fiber of my existence, but I have a lot of respect for Coach Self and the way he handles himself, and has always handled himself.

Not to mention he's a whale of a coach.

At some point you have to hold the coach responsible for the kids he recruits and the manner in which they conduct themselves.

[jocoshock]

Agreed about Self. Class act all the way.

Don't give a flip about their obnoxious fans and thuggy players. The pre-Richmond episode really made this loss all the more better.

Maybe KU should request that all the midmajors be out of their side of the bracket.

Now we know why they only wanna play middies in Rainbowtown.

Another elite slip: VCU stuns Kansas, 71-61

http://810whb.com/article/6265

During a captains meeting with officials before tipoff, VCU guard Joey Rodriguez said one of the brothers offered him some parting words: "The run ends here."

"We'll see," Rodriguez shot back.

[jocoshock]

VCU basketball makes another mid-major statement with win over Kansas

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/vcu-basketball-makes-another-mid-major-statement-with-win-over-kansas/2011/03/27/AF0EATlB_story.html?hpid=z2

Now that's what I call DANCING!!!!

For the CAA, this is essentially Cinderella squared.

Let’s pause briefly to remember the misguided lot who sadly still cling to the belief that the Rams did not deserve a bid.

Okay, now let’s have at these deluded souls.

Dick Vitale (“No shot, none whatsoever”). Jay Bilas (“Tough to justify” the Rams’ inclusion). In its own state, many wondered why Virginia Tech was left out of the party again.

“I’m not going to put words in Jay Bilas’s mouth,” Larranaga said. “But when he says they didn’t earn the right, hey, Jay, you didn’t study them to the depth the committee did. They now deserve everyone’s respect for what they’ve done.”

Charles Barkley, the basketball Hall of Famer and now a television commentator, may have said it best on Sunday night’s postgame show: “Remember when everybody said they shouldn’t be in the tournament? I think they can tell everybody to shut the hell up now.”

[ShockerFever]

Agreed about Self. Class act all the way.

Don't give a flip about their obnoxious fans and thuggy players. The pre-Richmond episode really made this loss all the more better.

Maybe KU should request that all the midmajors be out of their side of the bracket.

Now we know why they only wanna play middies in Rainbowtown.

Another elite slip: VCU stuns Kansas, 71-61

http://810whb.com/article/6265

During a captains meeting with officials before tipoff, VCU guard Joey Rodriguez said one of the brothers offered him some parting words: "The run ends here."

"We'll see," Rodriguez shot back.

The thug was right. Their run ended at the hands of a lowly CAA team.