Six more Top 25 teams went down two weeks ago, including two
of the top 5. The Number one spot has changed 6 straight weeks making it the
second-longest streak since the first rankings started in 1949. Top 25 teams
lost to unranked teams 36 times from January 17th to February 6th,
the most in at least 17 years of men’s college basketball.
With the Madness already in full affect on Saturday as
college basketball was still shocked that Tennessee
crushed Kentucky
by 30 points. Yes the Wildcats were without Nerlens Noel, but going down by 30
points to a 13-10 (6-6 SEC) UT team is called being exposed. It was a great win
for the VOLS!
Later Saturday night Duke lost to Maryland
by 2 points in a much needed win for MD and this could be the last time the
Blue Devils play in the Comcast
Center as the Terrapins
move to the Big 10 in 2014.
It was a fun game, but it’s wasn’t a pretty game. The Dukies
played 4 games in 10 days with two on the road and taking on UNC at home was
clearly exhausting. You could tell it wasn’t the same Duke team and they were playing
a sloppy and scrappy Maryland
team at home. Duke’s lack of energy kept it a close game, but Mason Plumlee was
held to four points and fouling out (he scored 18 points against UNC). With
three seconds left in the game and an 81-81 score, Duke’s Quinn Cook fouls Maryland’s Seth Allen
and he made both foul shots for the win. Call me crazy, but that was not a foul
on Cook. The game should have gone to OT.
But where Maryland
really won the game was in the student section! Now this was my fourth Duke-MD
game in the Comcast
Center and I can assure
you that UMD students still fear the classroom for their lack of creativity for
“chants”. Each year I think they are going to come up with something, anything-
besides “sucks” and the F bomb. But give them some music and they put on a good
show. The new You Tube flash mob craze is the “Harlem Shake” and the students did
not disappoint.
What is the Harlem Shake?
For
the uninitiated, it consists of users uploading videos to YouTube that last
about thirty seconds in length and feature the opening of electronic music
producer Baauer’s song “Harlem Shake.” The videos begin with the song’s
sample of a man giving a shrieking siren call of “Con los terroristas!”—Columbian
Spanish for “with the terrorists”—followed by one person, usually in a
ridiculous mask or helmet, dancing to the song alone as the beat builds. He or
she is surrounded by others who are stationary, blissfully unaware of the
dancer. When the directive, Then do the Harlem shake is uttered about 15 seconds in, the
bass drops and the video metastasizes into pure chaos—the entire coterie
engaging in paroxysms of dance for the next 15 seconds in outrageous outfits,
and wielding bizarre props. -The Daily Beast
(See links below)
Duke-Maryland game
Maryland
students were not the only ones making YouTube videos of the Harlem Shake.
Former UT Vol and current Milwaukee Bucks player, Tobias
Harris made an appearance at the UT vs. Kentucky
game:
Other good ones ODU Baseball team and UGA Men’s Swim &
Dive team
Beating Duke may have been a game changer for the Terrapins
shot at getting asked to the dance in March, but their dance moves can only
take them to You Tube. Then again, with this year of madness already taking
over in February is proving that no one really knows how the brackets will play
out so until March- Shake it up!
PS. I still do not understand why UMD students “riot” when
they beat Duke. One future scholar of America was quoted for justifying
why setting a trashcan on fire was better than setting a couch on fire. “It
gives us something to burn and we have a bad reputation of burning couches;
this way we can burn something and do it basically to celebrate”.
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