March Madness Recap: Wisconsin's Buzzer Beater and Bill Murray Haters
March Madness has officially melted our brains. Big Cat is riding high on a Wisconsin buzzer-beater adrenaline shot, while PFT Commenter is navigating a four-day hangover that has him questioning his own sanity. Between the constant barrage of Buffalo Wild Wings commercials and the sheer volume of basketball, the physical toll is starting to show.
Big Cat is fully aware that his Wisconsin joy is fleeting. He knows the cycle of being a sports fan involves a massive high followed by a crushing, public defeat that will lead to people calling him fat on Twitter. For now, though, he’s embracing the chaos of the tournament, even if the officiating is making it hard for the players to find a rhythm.
The inconsistency of NCAA tournament referees makes it impossible for players to adjust
The refs not only aren't consistent game to game, they're not consistent in game. If you watch the Wisconsin Xavier game, the first 10 minutes they let them play. They let them bang down low. Then the last 30 minutes, it was ticky-tack all the way through. They were calling every little contact. I just don't know how, as a player, you can handle that.
PFT Commenter admits he hasn't even seen a first half yet this year, mostly because he's too busy refreshing Twitter and waiting for the actually important minutes of the game to start.
Watching the first half of any March Madness game is a waste of time
What are you even doing if you're watching the first five minutes of a March Madness game? I don't think I've ever done that.
The Bill Murray Problem
The most shocking development of the weekend wasn't a double-digit seed making a run; it was PFT Commenter officially turning on Bill Murray. After seeing a devastated Bill Murray in the stands following Xavier's loss, PFT decided he's done with the "zany" surprise appearances at weddings and sporting events.
I am officially done with Bill Murray
I've reached the point where, like, I'm sick of Bill Murray just showing up to stuff. It used to be for the last five years he would just, like, show up somewhere and you'd be expected to laugh... now it's to the point where, okay, Bill, we get it. Like, you show up places where you're not invited sometimes. I don't think it's fun anymore.
Big Cat tried to defend the legend, but the conversation eventually led to the realization that a certain corner of the internet might be to blame for the Murray fatigue.
The Chive is responsible for making Bill Murray annoying
The Chive is to blame for like all the stuff that i hate about bill murray... They just wrote, they did tits and ass and then they said, Bill Murray, comma, get it. Now i'm more confident than ever in my Bill Murray take.
Meltdowns and Mouth Breathers
Northern Iowa provided the highest of highs and the lowest of lows in a 48-hour span. After hitting a half-court buzzer-beater on Friday, they suffered one of the most improbable collapses in sports history against Texas A&M. PFT thinks the coaching staff missed a golden opportunity to use their specific personnel to close out the game.
Northern Iowa would have won if they played their bench of 'small white guys' who know how to take charges and throw the ball off legs
If they just put their bench in for the end of that game, those guys could at least, I guarantee you, everybody on Northern Iowa's bench could throw a ball off their opponent's leg better than anyone else that was in the game. As a small white guy, that's one thing that I knew how to do really, really well... you put that bench in, you might give up like four or five, six points, but you're not losing that game.
We also have to acknowledge that Tom Crean might actually be a competent basketball coach, even if he looks like a creepy mattress salesman who sweats on your legs. He outdueled John Calipari, leading Big Cat to question if the Kentucky legend is more recruiter than tactician.
John Calipari is an overrated in-game coach who relies on superior athletes
I think Calipari is actually a little bit overrated as a coach... I think he's obviously the best recruiter in the country. I don't think he's the best in-game coach. He's like one of those guys. He's actually kind of like Roy Williams, who they always have really good athletes. I don't know if they always do the best job coaching those athletes because they just kind of let them go.
PR 101 and Oreo Crimes
In a special March Madness edition of PR 101, the guys looked at Raymond Moore’s disastrous comments about women’s tennis. While the world was outraged, Big Cat’s brain—warped by years of 90s wrestling—saw something else entirely.
The controversy between Raymond Moore and Serena Williams was a staged 'work'
I'm thinking that this guy [Raymond Moore] and Serena were in cahoots. And this was like, let's just get a little buzz going... I think this is all – I think it's a work.
PFT countered with a foolproof plan that has worked for everyone from Riley Cooper to Steve Sarkisian: the mysterious "treatment" card. It’s the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card because it makes you uncriticizable.
The best PR move for any scandal is to check into 'treatment' without explanation
Check into treatment... Don't give us an explanation. Just like disappear for 20 days and then you come back and you're like, I'm healed... When you just say it's a real problem that needs treatment, people now all of a sudden can't make jokes about it.
Finally, the show took a dark turn when Hank revealed a new "habit" he picked up from a friend. This might be the most disturbing thing ever discussed on the program, and that includes any talk of the Barstool app’s stability.
Washing an Oreo under tap water before eating it is 'not that bad'
My buddy was like, oh, have you ever run an Oreo underneath water before you ate it?... He went and got an Oreo and put it underwater and gave it to me. It wasn't that bad.
Big Cat and PFT are convinced this is gateway behavior for a serial killer, but in the spirit of the show, they'll probably end up trying it anyway just to see how soggy it gets.
If you see a guy at a bar on Monday morning crying into a plate of wings, just remember it's probably just the March Madness comedown.

