off topic but Gonzaga vs Mich State? anybody watch that?

what a friggin' game! one of the best college BB games I have ever watched

(now THAT was off topic)

that brings up a good point,and I wish I knew what that was

The 3 point circus completely turned me off college basketball. I have no idea why a longer shot should be worth more points.

Less points, that I could understand. If some kid who doesn't have a clue how to pass or penetrate or run a play wants to cop out and toss wildly from outside then he deserves 1 point if successful, not 3.

Just imagine football if you suddenly got 9 points instead of 6 for a TD outside 30 yards, or some other arbitrary figure. All of a sudden you would have teams winging it into the end zone instead of playing sound football, and taking intentional losses to get behind the 30 yard line. I see no fundamental difference in that or basketball teams who get a rebound underneath and then either dribble outside or toss it outside. It's idiocy and cheapened the sport.

Second-best? Is this guy nuts? Nope:

12/23/82: Chaminade 77, (1) Virginia 72. Yup, that's the Ralph Sampson-led Cavaliers honking one to what was then an NAIA school (now Div. II) with an enrollment of 800.

http://starbulletin.com/2001/04/29/sports/story3.html

There was Will Pounds looking for someone to celebrate with, the figures frozen in time on the Blaisdell Arena scoreboard above him -- Chaminade 77, Virginia 72. The Silverswords assistant coach couldn't find anyone, though.

Teammates Richard Haenisch and Mark Rodrigues were busy atop the rims, having climbed up to give the nets a trimming. Head Coach Merv Lopes was doing a television interview. "How did they do it?" he was asked....

Disbelief was more the feeling in ESPN's Bristol, Conn. studios, where the late sportscaster Tom Mees was nearing the end of a broadcast of SportsCenter. When he was handed a note that had come by way of the Associated Press saying that Chaminade had beaten Virginia, he balked at reading it.

"We were dumbfounded," Mees would say later of that night, December 23, 1982. "Nobody had heard of Chaminade then. I asked them to double-check it."

Chaminade upset Ralph