What a great shot! What a great game! What a great team! What a great University! "Mostly a commuter school..." Not! They have student dorms all over downtown and going way up Piedmont Avenue. Downtown Atlanta has been taken over by Georgia State. My family has members who are proud graduates - my wife: B.A. and M.A. in French literature; our son: MA in early childhood education (B.A. University of Virginia.) Georgia State Law School is one of the best in the country. Their graduates are flourishing in legal communities in Atlanta, Georgia, and all around the country. Great graduate school too! I could go on and on. This is a university that works. In our home I have to apologize for my Emory B.A. and Law Degree. Go Georgia State!
As a two time GSU Alum and former Asst. Sports Information Director for the Panthers, I can't help but smile and think back to lows of the 1996-97 season when working the press notes I tabulated our overall winning percentage in the low .200's--then just above Yale. The dubious distinction hung there for me as we owned one of the worst records in Division I basketball. We had a very small, but passionate Athletic Department at that time. In a city overwhelmed by Georgia and Georgia Tech support, we all wanted to win for the school, the athletes and ourselves. People can scoff at sports, and yes the money spent is obscene, but the fact sports continue to grow at the collegiate level is the positive culture it provides these little communities. Everyone wants to be part of a winner and yesterday it was Georgia State's time to bask in that glow. Thanks Hunter family and keep on Dancing!
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Upsets via dramatic finishes? How about UCLA's win over SMU, with goal tending providing the path to victory?
Glad to see the Bruins (from the Pac-12, "The Conference of Champions" as Bill Walton calls it), get the "W" and vindicate its selection over the howls of the East Coast sports pundits...
Glad to see the Bruins (from the Pac-12, "The Conference of Champions" as Bill Walton calls it), get the "W" and vindicate its selection over the howls of the East Coast sports pundits...
Poor babies only 20M. How much do they pay the professors?
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There is no way to "perfectly" seed the tournament. Teams play in different leagues and it is difficult to sometimes make comparisons. Also, unlike some other sports, the is more likelihood that weaker teams can beat stronger teams. Sometimes the ball just won't go in the rim! Teams suddenly go cold.
OMG who would have thought that GA state would do so well? Great work by them. This is why we all love March Madness, when an unknown can knock off the big guys. Given all that though, I'm still a UKentucky fan this year, and Duke and UNC. The ACC should have never let ND in.
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actually they were a preseason Cinderella pick and preseason NIT and had an even better team last year--but to be fair there are well over 300 teams
http://www.looktothecookie.org/2015/03/georgia-state-basketball-march-ma...
http://www.looktothecookie.org/2015/03/georgia-state-basketball-march-ma...
Young men playing what we all know is really unspoken professional basketball as representative advertisements for colleges is a truly regrettable situation.
The athleticism and physical gifts of young athletes can be an absorbing and distracting escape from the mundane challenges of life. But the amount of money, time and attention wasted by so many in our society is both inane and immoral.
The athleticism and physical gifts of young athletes can be an absorbing and distracting escape from the mundane challenges of life. But the amount of money, time and attention wasted by so many in our society is both inane and immoral.
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I feel sorry for R.J. Despite his heroics he was upstaged by his dad, injured celebrating and now rolling around on the sidelines. I would suggest to R.J. that, on NBA draft day, he leave his dad at home. No telling what Dad will do if RJ goes in the first round.
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I've never seen a sports upset described in term of athletic budgets. Mr. Spousta may be breaking ground here. It is somewhat helpful, I guess. But I do think it's fair game to note that the account of the upset on the website of Georgia State's school newspaper was much more fun to read than Mr. Spousta's account, despite the fact that the Times is a multimillion dollar media giant while Georgia State's website was overloaded when the 100th reader visited it.
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ditto, Michjas, on the budget comparison. I like it.
I do not read the Times, nor have I had the pleasure of reading Mr. Spousta, but I especially like the permafrost reference.
It's so cool this time of year the different stories that emerge to warm the heart, all because of a five on five game played indoors.
I do not read the Times, nor have I had the pleasure of reading Mr. Spousta, but I especially like the permafrost reference.
It's so cool this time of year the different stories that emerge to warm the heart, all because of a five on five game played indoors.
I'm disappointed Harvard was unable to knock out UNC, thereby allowing those Tarheels to go home and get back to having their tutors study for them.
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Coach Tommy Amaker makes more than five times what a Harvard professor is paid.
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So much money in the NCAA.
Too bad the athletes don't see any of it.
Too bad the athletes don't see any of it.
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ISU and Baylor losing in the first round. Goaltending was the correct call in the UCLA game and the Bruins could possibly go to Sweet 16 with win over UAB. SMU is a good team but UCLA played tad little better. They can play Iowa or Gonzaga in Sweet 16 and if they win that game, they will most likely play DUke. Duke should dominate UCLA but the bruins do have Tony Parker to match with Okafor. Duke should be UCLA. My Bruins baby.
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It is on YouTube for sure...
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
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Look, it's basketball, a sport. So what? Why should it pre-empt Jeopardy? It shouldn't. It's really sad that a sport is more important in this country than a TV show that celebrates intelligence.
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Jeopardy celebrates trivia more than intelligence!
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Not so. You must not watch it.
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Ironic comments should be printed in red so the humorless can recognize them. And for those who think it's important to refine Jennifer's characterization of Jeopardy, your point is trivial, not intelligent.
I don't know much about basketball, but is it really true that Baylor and Iowa State were both ranked #3?
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The NCAA bracket has 64 teams, which are grouped in 16's. That way, there are four #1 seeds, four #2 seeds, etc.
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Hey! I'm GSU alumni. Go Panthers!
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Proud moment! My son is accepted to GSU and UGA and I think he will choose GSU. The school is ascendant, academically as well.
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My wife is a 1976 Alumni and I was Psychologist in the Counselling Center and a Prof. I worked with the basketball team and was able to help them improve their free throw success and reduce retaliation fouls. Go Panthers
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The fact that copyright and technology precludes us from seeing any video clip, on any website, of the ending of this game is frustrating. Would it cost the corporate powers that much to just give us a little snippet after the fact. Good grief.
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Highlights are completely free on ncaa.com!
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It's on YouTube
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TSN 4, see the whole game. Don't know where you are. Guess it is good to be Canadian.
Bracket busters today. BTW, Northeastern would have beaten Notre Dame if they had a good coach.