March Madness Awards from The Diesel

After going over Jesus' awards and still carrying some rage from my poor performance in DC's bracket challenge, I thought I'd give my take on this years madness following Jesus' award system.

Best Individual Performance:

I got to go with Omar Samhan from St. Mary's vs. Nova. He was unstoppable. He was like 13-16 I think from the field. DP and I watched this together and couldn't believe how easy it was for him to score, even when they sent 2 guys on him.

Best Team Performance..

I'll go with Northern Iowa over Kansas. Great team defense and clutch shooting leading to the defeat against the best team in the land.

Best Game...

Waaaaay too many to pick from. Jesus pretty much named them all, but another one in the 1st round was the Robert Morris-Villanova game. Awesome game and Robert Morris should've won.

Best team..

I agreee with Jesus. Butler. I guess they are all sophomores and juniors so they should be strong next year.

Best Coach...

Like Izzo a bunch, but I'll go with Brad Stevens. Beat Cuse, Kansas St, Michigan St and almost had Duke. Even in the Duke game, Butler controlled the tempo of the game and somehow even had more rebounds than the Devils who were clearly bigger up front. Also, remember that timeout call when the game was 26-20 Duke? Butler game out gunning and took the lead by one. He's going to get a championship at some point.

MOP..

Even though I hate Duke..props to their big 3 of Smith, Scheyer and Singler. I have to say entering the tournament I had zero respect for the Dukies and their game. I thought they were hands down the weakest number one seed. But after watching their last two games they were for real and the play from their big three was outstanding so I'll give that trio MOPs.

Worst Choke..

How about the Big East as a whole. What the Fuck? I had them doing some serious work in my bracket and by Sunday night after the first weekend I think only West Virginia and Cuse were left standing. Syracuse couldn't make it to the elite eight and Duke owned West Virginia. Just pathetic.

Dog Shit Team..

Villanove. I completely agree. Just pathetic. They should've lost in round one and they got their asses handed to them by St. Mary's in round two. I have no idea what happened to them the last month of the season. They should've been in the NIT with URI. I had them going to the championship. What the hell was I thinking??? I did do weed muffins for the first time about a week before the tournament began. Maybe it was that.

DST Individual..

How about that tall, worthless, piece of garbage from Notre Dame - Luke Harangody. What the hell was all the hype with this guy about? He is awful. He really tore it up against Old Dominion with his stat line of 4 points and 7 rebounds. I mean, when I think of historically great defensive teams, Old Dominion always comes to mind. LEARN TO SHOOT THE BALL WITHOUT LOOKING LIKE YOU"RE TAKING A DUMP!!

That is not a good image. So let me leave you with a nice shot of the cast of Family Matters..



That's better.