Keeping in the same vein, I don't know if anyone else caught it, but Iowa had scored the games first basket, and one of them said "Iowa gets another hoop."
My son caught that right away. We figured we were in for a poorly called game right from the get go.
Both guys were terrible. One of the guys has done at least 1-2 Iowa games a year the past handfull of years. He is just terrible.
It became a running joke.
Early on, I posted this:
https://twitter.com/storminspank/status/290594607866183681
"Waiting for the ESPNU announcers to say this has been a defensive battle. Just wait. It will happen."
And later in the half, they did. Called it a "defensive battle" - don't mind the fact that they teams were 1-16 combined from behind the arc and wide open shots were being bricked, it was the D.
Other highlights:
McCormick saying, "Freshman and sophomores don't understand B1G basketball" Riiiiiiiiiiiiight because Conley and Oden were basketball dumb when they played at OSU.
McCormick's line: "If you don't make shots you can't win games"
And then, as mentioned early, the Dwayne Marble moment by the PbP guy which spurred this on Twitter:
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It became a running joke.
Early on, I posted this:
https://twitter.com/storminspank/status/290594607866183681
"Waiting for the ESPNU announcers to say this has been a defensive battle. Just wait. It will happen."
And later in the half, they did. Called it a "defensive battle" - don't mind the fact that they teams were 1-16 combined from behind the arc and wide open shots were being bricked, it was the D.
Other highlights:
McCormick saying, "Freshman and sophomores don't understand B1G basketball" Riiiiiiiiiiiiight because Conley and Oden were basketball dumb when they played at OSU.
McCormick's line: "If you don't make shots you can't win games"
And then, as mentioned early, the Dwayne Marble moment by the PbP guy which spurred this on Twitter:
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