I?ve been saying for weeks that this will be one of the most chaotic tourneys ever. But I just filled out my bracket, and it looks awfully chalky. 

So why are we not all in the mattress business? 

Well, because it?s a low-frequency business. Someone can buy a new car, and even if that car is still in tiptop shape after 4-5 years, a good % of people will be itching to replace it with a newer model with all the latest bells and whistles. But if someone buys a mattress, most will keep it until it starts to visibly wear out- 10, 15, even 20 years.

Btw I used to work at a now-extinct big box electronics retailer back in the day. And for some reason we also sold mattresses. As you may or may not be aware, mattresses have the highest margins of nearly any big household purchase you can make. A $9k mattress probably only costs a couple hundred bucks to manufacture.

  Wow, that's crazy!  I can definitely settle for less than that.   

I looked at Purple. They have some models that are relatively affordable. But their top of line in a king is 9 grand. 

Several so called gurus are predicting UK to make the Final Four....A couple have them in the championship game. Dickie V last night had KY winning it all....He also had us in the Final Four.

It's just hard for me to believe KY can get to the Final Four playing no defense....We will see.

UK at their best is capable of getting to the FF. Problem is, they haven?t shown they can sustain that level for more than 2-3 games at a time. And when they?re NOT at their best, they can lose to literally anyone.

I really wish we played them in FB this year. I wanna hang 70 on them while we still can. I think it's possible that Mizzou will be out of the SEC before we see them again. No inside info, just a hunch.

Then we've got a potential Barnes v Texas Part 3 matchup in the second round. The committee loves them a good storyline.

If we had lost to a freaking 8-10 conference team in a a hard fought game .....then maybe. Getting cornholed by a 8-10 team and losing to them twice...the answer is no. Add the fact we pretty much go cornholed by Ky at home to finish the regular season.....it's a big no.

Yeah, I get it. We took a pretty bad loss and don?t deserve it. But what no one has adequately explained is why UNC does. Going into championship week, lunardi still had us as a #1 seed. Now mind you this is one of the guys who frequently likes to remind us that conference tournaments don?t matter. But apparently they do in the case of a blue blood. We took a quad 1 loss. Yes, we looked terrible, but we DID lose to a tourney team. UNC beat two quad 2 tomato cans then took a bad quad 2 loss where they trailed wire to wire. What did they do to pass us?

Iowa State? They aren?t even under consideration. They only played two P5 OOC opponents (A&M and VPI) and lost both. Yes, they?re playing arguably better than anyone right now, but they dug themselves too deep an early hole to get a 1 seed.

So if not us, then who? And why?

My wife let me know that we bought their premier line

That?s what I?m getting- the premier hybrid. I went ahead and ordered it yesterday. Can?t wait to try it out!

I agree with you. But you know how this works. The royalty gets the benefit of the doubt. And all of the expert bracket predictors are saying "UNC".

Back in my day, the saying was, "You can't fight the system."

"Back in my day" was before the written word. But it was still the word.

I didn't even want the 1 seed out there- but then I saw Arizona play. I don't think they get far. If UNC and AZ are 1 and 2 in that region, then at least one low seed is going to the Final Four.

Of course if he were still here, Rick would have him down around 215 lbs.

Well, I'll back you on this, since it doesn't cost me anything, but unfortunately, UNC went to the finals of their conference tournament and we went out in our first game. And they beat us this year.

But I won't pass on the #1 seed even if seems unearned.

But their conference is trash. A win over Duke is really all that could've helped them, and they didn't get to play them. A loss to an MSU team that was already a tourney team anyway, even if it came early, is still less damaging than a title game loss to NCSU, who was well outside the bubble.

Not according to Jay Bilas, who's calling the game.

And we all know that he is the all-knowing, all-seeing guru of college basketball. 

I thought it was far-fetched when I posted it- but now that I look at things a little more closely, I think it's a real possibility. Lunardi had us as the #5 overall and UNC at #4 before their game tipped off. And they just lost. Sooooooooo?

We beat the SECT champs, the B10T champs, and the ACCT champs. Who deserves it more than us?

 

They must be starting AJ Russell tomorrow, because this would've been a great opportunity to get him a couple innings.

So far I'm sorry that it finally made it to ESPN on TV.  They've dug themselves an early hole.

By far their sloppiest game of the year. I thought they'd left all this shizzlety defense and bad baserunning behind in 2023.

ESPN's app sucks anyway. It's 2024- why can't I select my favorite teams and have all their live games appear at the top of my feed? Instead of scrolling through 86 Sun Belt and Big South games?

It's up on the app now.  Looks like we scored 0 runs on 3 hits in the 1st.

I found it on the app, but it says it hasn't started yet. It's 5 minutes late. Weather delay?

I?m definitely feeling better than I was 24 hours ago. Misery loves company.

I read that Edey had 2 fouls in the first 3 minutes of the game. He finished the game with 2 fouls. 🤔

He absolutely ran over Wahl and they gave a blocking foul to Wahl (it fouled him out in OT).

Edey shot 19 FTs. Wiscy?s entire team shot 9. Overall, Purdue had a 32-9 advantage. It takes a minor miracle to win a game against those odds.

Edey gets to do whatever the hell he wants. Wisconsin?s entire frontline has fouled out. 

This board needs an ?ignore? feature.

My current mattress (a cheap off-brand memory foam I got off Amazon) is about 10 years old and I?m ready to replace it with something of higher quality. Currently leaning toward the Nectar Premiere Hybrid, which is supposed to be good for side-sleepers like me. Anyone have any other recommendations?

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