That Withers 3 was the dumbest thing I've seen in any sports game I've been to. WTF was that dude thinking.
Unrelated: I sat behind a UConn fan who was literally one of the hottest women I ever seen in my life. This is gonna set me off on a tangent so you can either keep reading or stop reading. Kind of woman either someone would cut their nuts off to be with or be too shit scared to say a single word to her. She was with some dude who looked like Urijah Faber so I was trying not to laugh about that, and she kept taking selfies with her UConn shit so I was trying not to be in them. I mention this because I feel like it must be weird to be someone who looks like that and has every interaction with people judged in large part based on that. I was thinking, how do you get through your day knowing you're being evaluated like this. At some point you must come to the realization that people only do things for you because they want to bang you. And then you know that a lot of people who treat you like shit do it because they have it in their head that you won't bang them and they need to make you feel bad to feel better about that. I think this would bother me. Being average has its own set of issues but psychologically I don't have to worry about any of this shit. I talked to her for a while after I made a few funny jokes when we were watching the UConn game on the big board at halftime but it goes without saying I didn't bring any of this up.
I felt bad for the Arizona fan sitting next to me though. He was so mad they lost that he straight up left. He was telling me before the game how old he was and that he'd never been to the Final Four before and they hadn't been in one for 23 years, that he doesn't have that many chances left to see them play in one, and well I felt fucking bad for him after the game that's for sure. I was cheering for them to win for his sake, and maybe that cursed them.
One thing some coaches haven't adapted to, and Arizona's coach is definitely one of these guys, is what NIL has done to the game. And I don't mean in terms of players getting paid, I mean in terms of longevity and experience. The teams that went deep in this tournament were teams that played with structure and had experience. Teams like Arizona, Kentucky, Texas, they don't play with a whole lot of structure. They throw guys out there, tell them to play ball and hope it comes good. That will not win in college basketball anymore. Our consensus in my immediate section is that UConn is turning into a blue blood on the level of early 90's Duke in very large part because of this structure and experience.
