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Jon Rothstein is on the call in first weekend tourney games?
Sideline reporter
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Obviously their lead team is the GOAT March Madness combo, but I also like Harlan-SVG.
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Dick Vitale gets a first four game with Charles Barkley
@JoeBoxley whatās next for your boy?
Also I had a random Instagram DC food review reel come across my feed and I swear the guy said you were holding the camera. What a small digital world if true.
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Weāll see. Will always have lovw for the friars but tough pill to swallow.
and yeah that was 100% me hahah. Friend of a friend does those videos and wanted to check out Le Dip, used to live across the street
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I used to be at 14th and Rhode island just up the street. Miss Le Dip so much
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12 & U for me. Loved being able to walk up and see whoever was playing at the Lincoln Theater.
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Lived on 13th & Q for years - legit across the street from Le Dip. Steak frits and gourmet big macs for days
Side note: I probably went to Drafting Table 3 or 4x a week. Loved and miss that place. Kills me there is some snobby wine bar there now
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The snobby wine barās HH is pretty solid thoughā¦. not really my preferred spot, but itās serviceable.
The best spot on 14th now is the Aslin. Absolutely love that place.
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Le Dip mad overrated sorry for the hater energy. Iām still mad that it was my wife and Iās first meal out post newborn / post covid vax and it was bleeeeh. (edit: it was fine, not gross. just nothing special)
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Will Warren writes in defense of the Sun Belt bracket: The Sun Belt Is Right
I love an analytically-based gadfly take, so I enjoyed this one. I especially enjoyed this part:
Hereās the thing: when those teams failed to win their leagues, no one really cared. It was a shame for about 15 minutes, then media members moved onto the next thing. Now that thereās a protective item here, people are annoyed and mad. Read the replies to the Sun Beltās own tweet here and youāll see many heated people either directly calling this a gimmick or inferring it as one.
You know what an actual gimmick is? Conference tournaments, which have only existed in a widespread fashion for about 50 years. The Big Ten didnāt see the need for one until 1998. Arch Madness, everyoneās beloved Missouri Valley tourney, didnāt exist until 1977 and wasnāt played in St. Louis until 1991. The Ivy League made it just fine without a conference tournament until 2017.
Alsoā¦I donāt think the 7-seed is actually an unfair result for Arkansas St. They had the easiest conference schedule and were #7 in the SB by conference-only WAB. They should have simply not lost at home to JMU and Marshall, games T-Rank had them at 80% to win.
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fully agree
not even sure its a top 2 stephen starr restaurant in DC
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I agree that for leagues that arenāt going to get a first four team (in which case they should try to rig it against the good teams to get the first four bid and potential extra tournament unit) this is usually the right move, it values the regular season more and makes it more likely to get a win in March. WCC and Southland are two conferences where its absolutely the right move. Just happened to be that there was a logjam at the top this year in the Sun Belt, I think its a bit silly that one result flips you from having to win 2 vs 5 games, but it worked out that way.
Iād argue itās not too 3. St Anselm, Occidental, Osteria Mozza all better food, but not as historic and the quality absolutely shows up in the bill
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15 seed; great shooters
14 seed; run the Princeton offense
ā¦ wait what? What were we talking about?
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Sorry Osteria Mozza is an Italian wing I heard weāre scouting
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Michigan-Iowa is fun. Stirtz is quite the player. Iowa has a very nice offense, they move the ball well and cut hard.
Dusty May is if you melded Tony Bennettās and Ryan Odomās face.
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