Reminder: this is your last chance to enter our NCAA Tournament Challenge group to prove you're smarter than me and win some cool stuff in the process.
You have until the first game tips today.
Additionally: Get dumped then, Oral Roberts!
Word of the Day: Survive.
CALLING HIS SHOT. We know Justin Fields can move – we saw it on the very first carry of his Ohio State career that went 51 yards to the house.
But in a few weeks, Fields wants to let the world know he isn't just fast, he's among the fastest quarterbacks ever.
Had to let em know. Ill be in the 4.3s by Pro Day.. pic.twitter.com/6JcFCqGVaJ
— Justin Fields (@justnfields) March 19, 2021
If you're wondering what sort of company this would put him in, Kyler Murray reportedly ran an unofficial 4.31, Michael Vick ran an official 4.33 and Lamar Jackson reportedly ran a 4.34 at his pro day. Past that, you've got Robert Griffin III with a 4.43.
But honestly, regardless of the specific number, anywhere in the range of 4.30 to even something like 4.49 immediately makes him one of the fastest players in the NFL at any position, much less quarterback. So let's not set ourselves up for disappointment when he inevitably rips off a blazing 4.43.
EATING GOOD. We've seen some complaints about the quality of the food over there in the bubble, but if you haven't noticed, you've seen no complaints from the Buckeyes on that front.
There's a reason for that!
Meechie Johnson and the Buckeyes are eating well in the bubble. Its good to see Ohio State is taking care of the team #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/6V9GUvlw50
— Ohio State Hoops Insider (@OSUHoopsInsider) March 18, 2021
Looks like Ohio State needs to get those wins this weekend so there's time for St. Elmo's next week.
HARVARD WILL BE WATCHING. It would seem that you can safely count Harvard University among Ohio State's March Madness supporters because Seth Towns is ready to make them proud.
“If there’s one guy that you want to see win the most, it’s Seth Towns,” Juzang said. “It just warms my heart. I’m so excited. I’ll be watching every single game. … I’ll be staying up for it just to see him live out this dream that we were trying to accomplish for four years. It’s bigger than this one-year run. It’s an accumulation. …
“It makes it feel like I’m there, to get to see him out there. It’s dope. I’m sure our whole class feels that way.”
Towns has kept in touch with his former coach Tommy Amaker, too. The Harvard coach has texted Towns periodically to tell him he watched one of his games, and even jokingly make some comments about his game.
“Sometimes he gets mad, like a good kind of mad,” Towns said. “I’m now doing the stuff that he was trying to bark at me in my head when I was a sophomore and a freshman. He’s like, ‘I see you chasing rebounds now.’ … He’s still coaching me from afar. …
“It hurts not to have been able to play four years for him. He was such a great coach. I loved him. It meant so much being able to put on a jersey and represent him as much as it did for the university and everything else. I’m so thankful for that relationship.”
The feeling is mutual.
“So proud of Seth!!” Amaker said via email. “He deserves all of this and more. We all have watched and followed him — cheering from a distance.”
I know it's been mentioned quite a few times already, but it's still hilarious to me that Ohio State's bench includes both a kid who should still be in high school and a Harvard graduate at the same time.
Hey, whatever you need to do to get to the Final Four.
UH OH. You're not going to believe this, but the NCAA created a PR disaster for itself in Indianapolis. Hard to believe, I know.
Let me put it on Twitter too cause this needs the attention pic.twitter.com/t0DWKL2YHR
— Sedona Prince (@sedonaprince_) March 19, 2021
Now, I'm a known and proven idiot when it comes to pretty much anything, but wouldn't the obvious solution here just be to let the women also use the extremely large men's workout facilities?
SONG OF THE DAY. "Waves" by Kanye West.
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