Crazy Endings!

Well, yesterday's endings got progressively crazier.

SF Austin had Notre Dame dead to rights with 1:39 to go.  Up 5, loose ball, just pick it up and either shoot foul shots or take another 30 seconds off the clock.

Instead, the dude with the beard tried to control it with a dribble.

Folks, that's not how they teach it All-Net Camp! Grab it with TWO HANDS! Had he done so, his subsequent misses: one on a long-range 3 with TEN SECONDS left on the shot clock, the other a wild runner with 12 seconds left in the game wouldn't have mattered.

I know this is a basketball blog, but Jimmy Johnson might be luckier than Texas A&M. Kevin Harvick was ahead by about 2 miles with two laps to go in the Auto Club 400.  I think he could've stopped, got out, and pushed the car to the checkers.  But, Kyle Busch blew a tire, then sneakily chose to skip the pits and cause a caution.  Next thing I know, Jimmy Johnson somehow gains 3 spots during the pit stop and wins a race he had - literally - about .000001 chance of winning with 4 miles to go.

But even those odds looked good compared to Texas A&M's one-in-eleventy-billion chance to come back from 12 down with 40 seconds to play.  I don't write well enough to comment on how Northern Iowa must feel about those final 30 seconds of regulation.  Or even the final 17 seconds.  It's hard to imagine a team losing an NCAA Division 1 tournament game as a result (in part) of two failed attempts to throw the ball off an opponent's legs in the final 30 seconds.

And, finally, Paul Pecor already has 338 points.   That would've been good enough for third place in last year's Shamrock, and we're only to the Sweet 16.