NCAA TOURNAMENT 2024

[EnmoreCat]

Warning Enmore has touched down in Sin City.  I sense a touch of "fear and loathing in Las Vegas" may be upon us.

My main aim is to not get tasered and to keep all teeth.

[PaulNewman]

Warning Enmore has touched down in Sin City.  I sense a touch of "fear and loathing in Las Vegas" may be upon us.

My main aim is to not get tasered and to keep all teeth.

And hopefully there aren't any panthers, camels, or generals lurking around your suite.  Keep your tranquilizer device at the ready.

[EnmoreCat]

Sage advice Paul Newman, in reality I think I come from a long line of non-adventurous types. 

[PaulNewman]

Sage advice Paul Newman, in reality I think I come from a long line of non-adventurous types. 

Random topic time during the anxiety-addled evening before segment...

Have you ever eaten at an Outback Steakhouse?  Going back 35+ years when I was first married and living in Springfield, VA (Franconia, across the street from Clarence and Ginny Thomas), Outback was in its ascendency...with lines out the door and extending length of a football field or more. 

[EnmoreCat]

I think I may have once, but quite some time ago.  They require a bit more space than what's typically available in Downtown Enmore.  Ours is more of an inner city vibe:

https://www.timeout.com/sydney/restaurants/the-best-restaurants-in-enmore

[MunnyTim]

Headed to Vegas tomorrow, hoping to be there to get to game one.  And while I would love to jump in on PN's rankings extravaganza, I am way too partisan to actually be taken seriously as I try to rate fairly and honestly.  However, the two questions that have been bouncing around in my head for the last ten days ...

1.  Can Midd get over the post-season mental whammy with Amherst.  Don't get me wrong, both are phenomenal teams (I have seen both live and wow, impressive), but Amherst has gotten the best of the panthers in the postseason of late.  Can Midd overcome that recency bias?

2.  Is it W&L's year?  Three final fours in four years (same as Amherst, actually, right?), but no titles.  Are they the team of destiny this year that will overcome any and all teams placed in their path?

Curious to find out.  And, try to catch EnmoreCat getting tasered on video so I can share it with the entire soccer board.  ;-)

[Kuiper]

Congrats to Gavin Randolph of Middlebury, who won the Elite 90 Award for the student athlete with the highest GPA at the final four!  4.0 in Computer Science and Economics.  Not too shabby.

https://x.com/NCAA/status/1864503171931844757

[PaulNewman]

MunnyTim, it may turn out to be too little, too late for ROY, but your postseason surge has at a minimum landed you on the D3 boards (soccer) All-Rookie First Team. 

Excellent, insightful, and balanced posting. 

(You've got a future here...should you want one lol.)

[College Soccer Observer]

Gavin has a twin brother who plays for Tufts.  His mom logs lots of minutes on the sidelines for two NESCAC squads.

[Dustin_Patrón]

Hey EnmoreCat, how about we bury the hatchet?

I was thinking the Wynn Buffet Friday night, my treat. Could've gone for the Golden Steer, but with rodeo week in full swing, that's a fool's dream.

Hell, thinking about Serpone makes me sick. I won't be able to eat. Dinner's off.

Unrelated but anyone know where to pickup a taser in Vegas?

[Ejay]

http://gspawn.com/

Ask for Rick.

[EnmoreCat]

Hey EnmoreCat, how about we bury the hatchet?

I was thinking the Wynn Buffet Friday night, my treat. Could've gone for the Golden Steer, but with rodeo week in full swing, that's a fool's dream.

Hell, thinking about Serpone makes me sick. I won't be able to eat. Dinner's off.

Unrelated but anyone know where to pickup a taser in Vegas?

I didn't know there was even a hatchet! Beautiful day in Las Vegas BTW.

[Rcjh2245]

Oh how I'm going to miss all this joshing when the weekend is over and the season rides off into the Vegas sunset. Good luck to all four teams today-looking forward to the post-game musings.

[Freddyfud]

Oh how I'm going to miss all this joshing when the weekend is over and the season rides off into the Vegas sunset. Good luck to all four teams today-looking forward to the post-game musings.

As long as this survives the opportunities for joshing should continue and be plentiful:

https://masseyratings.com/csoc/ncaa-d3/ratings

[SKUD]

Massey is still wrong middlebury has not yet won an 18th game