Thursday, March 16, 2023

2023 NCAA Day One Oddities

This first one will take the headlines:  

Murderer Brandon Miller, in the Alabama first-round win over Texas A&M Corpus Christi:

5 rebounds, 3 assists...  NO POINTS.

Miller played only 18 minutes in the contest -- to be fair, none of the starters played more than 20.

Only people who probably cared should be the ones either on Alabama covering the spread (they did not) or Daily Fantasy...

Still...

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Not as flagrant as some of the ones I've seen in sports, but this definitely raises an eyebrow or two:

You're Virginia, up two against Furman, and you have a timeout.

So why does Kihei Clark chuck it to a place where only a Furman player gets it?


That's definitely AT LEAST borderline on the "threw the game" scale...

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And we have a ref controversy:

Maryland-West Virginia, 47.1 left, Maryland up four.  And this happens:


Fortunately, in this case, the controversy had no effect.  The problem is the Maryland player got clobbered and it was no-called.  Maryland did still win, however.

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