Monday Skull Session

It's Monday, which is only as bad as your job.

SO, IT'S A FIGHTIN' NO. 10 SEED. *In my Mean Girls voice* Ugh, I am so over Bracketology. Yesterday, everyone made it seem like Ohio State was locked in as a No. 9 seed.

But lo, Ohio State is a No. 10. The Basketbucks play No. 7 Virginia Commonwealth in Portland on Thursday at 4:40ish TNT. (The first four day's pairings, tip times, and announcers can be found over here.)

Thad Matta says hes been to Portland just once. It was to recruit Kevin Love.

— Tim Shoemaker (@TimShoemaker) March 16, 2015

Thad Matta on facing VCUs havoc defense: "With a senior guard and DAngelo, hopefully were going to be a tough team to trap."

— Tim Shoemaker (@TimShoemaker) March 15, 2015

I think Ohio State will win this game. Would I bet a precious Ramen noodle pack on it though? No.

BRING ON THOSE RAMS. Rams are a dumb animal if you think about it. They're just drunk, aggressive goats. Does anyone enjoy hanging around an aggressive drunk besides other aggressive drunks? I don't think so.

The VCU hoops team, however, is good. And would you believe, while they're not experts on Ohio State, they know enough to respect them? It's true.

From Tim Pearrel of Richmond.com:

“I haven’t watched them closely enough yet,” [VCU coach Shaka Smart] said. “We’ll get on that tape. I know Ohio State has a very, very good team.”

VCU is making its fifth consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament and sixth in seven years. The selection committee hasn’t done the Rams any travel favors recently. This will be their third trip west in the past four years.

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After struggling down the stretch in the regular season, the Rams have won their past five games. They capped a four-games-in-four-days sweep in the A-10 tournament by beating Dayton 71-65 for the title Sunday.

Whatever the outcome, it can't be worse than last year's loss to Dayton. That's what I keep telling myself, because the only way I'll harbor distaste for VCU between now and Thursday is if tape surfaces Shaka Smart beating D'Angelo Russell with a pipe.

There is nothing to dislike about VCU other than their dumb mascot.

FAMILY, BASKETBALL GET MATTA THROUGH DISABILITY. A lot of people aren't aware Thad Matta warriors through disability to lead the men's team. It's a struggle he withstand without his family.

From Bob Hunter of Dispatch.com:

“It probably means the most to me for my wife and two daughters because I’m probably going on eight years with a disability, and they’re the ones that have suffered the things that I can’t do as a father, I can’t do as a husband,” he said. “And they’ve never wavered.

“I have some really, really bad days in terms of coming home after games, and they’ve got to help me get my shoes and socks off, and for them to stay the course with me, it means a heck of a lot more to me for them than it does for myself.”

It was a bit of a stunner, not because it isn’t obvious Matta is hurting, but because he never talks about it. The public probably has a vague awareness that he has had back surgery — actually, he has had four.

Some folks would do well to read that article before they log into the internet to unload their shitty opinions. Just my take, though.

SPRING BREAK IS BAD, ACTUALLY. Today is the first day of Ohio State's spring break, and every student poisoning themselves with alcohol and drugs in sun-soaked paradises should be expelled from the school. (I AM NOT BITTER.)

Spring break/monster DE Joey Bosa, however, apparently found a girl with a NSFW anti-Michigan tattoo banger on the inside of her lip?

I feel like people only get lip tattoos to show people they have a lip tattoo, but that could just be my anti-spring break rage bubbling over.

THOSE WMDs. Voltaire's Crusade for the Innocent... The secret language of professional dog walkers... One of the world's tallest structures is in North Dakota... '65 photo of youth football game next to a burning building... Does this shed hold the secrets of an art heist?