VCU Litos

Phenomenal call.

Hoooooo, DJ Armstrong.

“Right between the eyes.”

This is my annual note: I want Kevin Harlan to do play-by-play of my funeral.

Tony Skinn bombs SLU and it’s important to mention VCU?

It must suck to be a little brother.

Also he punched Loren Stokes in the nads and should never be forgiven.

I mean.

Salut to Mark Schmidt.

He was always great to me with his time, and didn’t speak in platitudes.

One VCU coach said he was the toughest to game plan against.

You can get a feel for people in the back halls. Play 18, coach. Have a few. Tell stories. And enjoy your next chapter.

20.

Huge.

Minutes.

Edit: Dyshawn Pierre. That’s a fat finger or spell check gone wrong. Guy was a dude.

As we all are.

VCU 37, Dayton 36 (H).

A game worthy of these two programs.

A Scoochie Smith/Dashawn Pierre Flyers kind of team.

Rams multi-positional skill an advantage. Except guarding the rim. Feels like Dayton is shooting 103%.

High level game thus far.

Duquesne up 20-8 at SLU and the only question is when the Bills put the 24-4 run on them.

As we watched Dayton/GW, my wife compared me to Anthony Grant and I’ve never loved that woman more.

Also flashed back to one of the more bullshit road crowds at GW during the Briante Weber days.

Don’t know how Arizona/Baylor ends, but the sequence from 14:00-5:00 has been incredible basketball.

SOU is a coach at his new hire press conference:

We’re gonna play fast and disrupt everything our opponents want to do.

Look at Jim Smith up there. Program all time leading scorer. He loves me.

Thanks to me, we’re going to NCAA tournaments. And winning.

Such a joke.

College basketball is the best. Just watched my guys control 28 minutes and lose by 16. Then a mini-scrum.

Now watching some kid from Indiana with a legit mullet and Oscar Cluff from Purdue, who I’m sure will build a house with his bare hands one day.

Was that before or after the bullshit bump on Lewis that started it all. Curious.

Will Wade would draw up a 14-point play and get VCU to overtime in this chaos.

Under four update: bourbon.

SLU does SLU things. A 17-2 run forces a Martelli timeout just ahead of the under 8. 66-59 Bills.

SLU scored 33 points in 1H. Have 33 this half.

VCU 47-41 at the under 16.

SLU going to straight line drives on offense. A couple transition threes made it a game.

Both teams playing more physical. Might be a conga line to the foul line soon.

VCU 42, SLU 33 (H).

12/6 for Lazar Djokovic.

Rams get nothing from Hill, commit 12 turnovers and still lead.

Brandon Jennings makes things happen in all facets of the game.

VCU still holds double-digit lead at the under four. Rams seem to hit a big shot every time Bills try to swing momentum.

VCU has seven made threes by seven different players.

Big four minutes here. VCU has controlled this half. A four-point lead is very different than a 10-point lead.

VCU 20-8 at the under 12.

Clearly guarding the line is the top four defensive priorities.

Four different Rams have hit threes.

If you have a complaint, take a gummy.

Certainly not unhappy. Ha.

Interesting Terrence Hill stats: the sharpshooter is only 33% from three in conference games, yet has a 50/14 assist-to-turnover ratio.

Have to go Clint Black as we wait for tip: this killin' time is killin' me.

Teej, bubby, I'm your white knight.

VCU, Phil Martelli Jr. bearing the weight of expectations in the A10 Martelli has the Rams at 19-6, riding an eight game win streak into the final stretch of the season.

VCU was picked 1st in the A10 preseason poll, and now sits at second. Expectations weren't far off for the storied Rams' program.
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Pointless but fun stat: Teams combined to go 25-27 from the line in the first half.

Mooney decided the best time to earn a technical foul is with zero point five seconds left in the half.

Curious.