The BIAH Quotables

This a new feature we are trying out here at BIAH this season. Throughout the week, we are going to post some notable quotes or excerpts that show up in our google reader. Stupid people say stupid things 24 hours a day, and being somehow associated with the college hoops landscape does not preclude that fact. That said, we will not limit our quotables to the simple and idiotic, as the insightful and intelligent will also be highlighted. Feel free to pass along any quotables you stumble across to contactbiah@gmail.com or @ballinisahabit.


Georgetown got a much needed signature road win against Pittsburgh earlier in the week. It was the first time in a long time that Pitt lost at The Zoo. Georgetown center Greg Monroe had a fitting analogy for the victory via twitter:

What's the Zoo when u came from the jungle?...nothin. It was a good WINsday!

After watching Chris Wright drop 21 pts on the Panthers, Mike DeCourcy had a most unique way of describing Chris Wright:

He is unlike any point guard you've ever seen. (And no, this is not another treatise on the miracle of John Wall). Chris Wright runs Georgetown's Princeton-style offense like Will Ferrell performing King Lear.

Sorry for the Georgetown overload, but they were just too entertaining to pass up.

Eamonn Brennan recently wrote a nice piece about improper stormings of the court. I totally agree with what he says:

Then, Indiana fans decided to up the ante. Not satisfied with letting Michigan's students steal their thunder, Indiana's fans stormed the court after -- get this -- a home win over Minnesota. A home win over Minnesota! Minnesota! Who is not ranked! Who is not a particularly impressive opponent, presently or historically! Minnesota! MINNESOTA!

This might be the single worst court-storm in the history of storming the court. There has never been anything quite so bad.

I've often wondered what exactly the parameters are that warrant a court-storming? It would be great if an established hoops pundit could go to work on this one.....

North Carolina is currently in a downward-spiral, having lost three in a row and four out of five. Will the tar heels make the tournament? let's ask Mike DeCourcy:

At the moment, I'm thinking the Tar Heels can make it all the way through the championship game, just like the millions of others who will watch on CBS.

OK, that was harsh. But the first question that has to be answered is whether the Tar Heels will be invited into the field. This is not meant to be alarmist, but realistic.

Just in the BCS conferences, there are 54 teams with records matching or exceeding UNC's 12-7. Even if we concede the Tar Heels' 12-7 is better than everybody else's 12-7—and it may be, given the victories over Ohio State and Michigan State—there are a lot of teams to climb past in order to get onto the bracket.

Is it acceptable to give dap to yourself? Because, well, Our very own Rob Dauster provides our next quotable. Here he is discussing Jeremy Hazell's shot selection problem. But Dauster takes the road less traveled, discussing the people who are discussing Hazell:

Doris Burke, who was doing the color for the game (Side note: Burke is a very underrated commentator. She really knows the game, she breaks it down in an insightful manner, and she does it in a way that makes what she is explaining seem very basic. Bill Simmons may disagree, but Burke should be spending more time away from the sideline.), ripped him. The twitterati ripped him. No doubt Bobby Gonzalez ripped him.

I am one of the few remaining humans that reads the newspaper sports section. The Washington Post had a couple good quotables that will most likely end up in a) the trash, b) a fireplace or c) a child's hamster cage. Marquette head coach Buzz Lightyear Williams knew that his team was facing an uphill battle going to the Carrier Dome:

There's very few places you can go where the head coach is already in the Hall of Fame, and the floor is named after him, and the team is the number-five-ranked team in the country. That's a bad combination.

Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg offers his opinion on "one play can change the game":

You got lucky. Let's face it. You win a game like that, one play is the difference between being miserable and being able to breathe. I can breathe tonight.

Bobby Knight is turning into one of my favorite color commentators in the country. Don Ohlmeyer, ESPN's ombudsman (awesome word) explained why I believe that:

No one can deny that Knight is about as knowledgeable about hoops as they come. By the end of a telecast he's working, you feel as if you've attended a world-class coaching clinic. His observations are perceptive, his compliments succinct and his criticisms often withering.