Saul Phillips Personifies What This Tourney Is All About...

((HT: NDSU Athletics))

Some of us had North Dakota State in our picks for the early part of the tournament...

A lot of you did not...

But it's "teams" that do well early on if they get the chance to hang around against higher seeds, and the Bison did that beating Oklahoma.

Along with teams like Mercer, Dayton, and Stephen F. Austin, it has reminded us what makes this month one of the best 30-day stretches in the calendar year (see Brother Phil's ode hyah to reinforce the theory)

But, no, the Bison didn't make it past their match-up with San Diego State to go further. But we will remember the Basketball Bison for a lot of reasons- head coach Saul Phillips' exultation after the first win is only a part of it. It's his remembrance i=of this first weekend that's a big part of it...

Here's his presser... and the moment the HQ is talking about is just short of the 11-minute mark...

UGA Fan Cries Over Clemson Loss On Radio... Really...

((HT: Viral Chhadua))

First and foremost, the HQ thinks this HAS GOT TO BE A WORK...

After most college football games, local sports talk stations have their own call-in shows so fans can vent about the wins and losses of their favorite schools and their enemies...

On 92.9 "The Game" after the Georgia loss to Clemson...
This happened...


FOSG Robb Tribble was one of the voices that was chasing after the caller and his on-air tears...

And the HQ knows that college football fans are like this... on some fringes...
Now, we have the new example that has set other examples into the stratosphere...