Live from Charlotte - Day Four
March 16th, 2008, 4:33 pm · 1 Comment · posted by bobsutton
After being on hand for 10 games in the last three days, it’s kind of strange that there was only one game here today. But today’s final was more than enough to satisfy any hoops junkie.
North Carolina and Clemson, the two best teams in the league at this moment, put on a show.
BOLD CHOICES: If you noticed that the Tar Heels seemed less than elated after winning the tournament, it may have had something to do with the music. For some reason the ACC decided to play “Maneater” by Hall and Oates for the immediate aftermath of the game.
Nothing like a song from 1982 by the virtuosos of light rock to help a bunch of 18-22 year olds savor a big basketball victory.
The next song was “One Way or Another” by Blondie. The song, which came out in 1978 or eight years before Tar Heels senior Quentin Thomas was born, was a little peppier, but still way wrong.
Danny Green still tried to dance to it. He’s a trooper.
LUCKY FOLKS: I shouldn’t be too hard on the powers that be in the conference because the Times-News had the best seats on press row. We were stationed right behind the ESPN team, meaning the stat monitor, several television screens with replays and notes passed to the announcers containing interesting info were in full view.
Good stuff.
ROY MAY BE RIGHT: Roy Williams aired his opinions on the ACC Tournament following Sunday’s victory. He may have a point. North Carolina’s victory was the talk of the media room for all of four hours.
Once the NCAA Tournament pairings were announced, the game might have well as been played in December.
MARATHON NOT A SPRINT: After five days and 11 games, I am way too familiar with the bowels of Charlotte Bobcats Arena and in desperate need of some daylight.
Next week we’ll be embedded in the RBC Center and a week after that we could possibly be back in the blue-curtain womb of this facility.
For now though, I’m just ready to go home.
- Stephen Schramm
March 16th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
We hated those songs when I was in college and that’s when they were first released. Good to see that there are constants in this crazy mixed up world.