It’s January, which means two things for college basketball fans: the start of conference play, and the return of Big Monday on ESPN. We try to do open threads around here for most big primetime games, and thus, every — or at least, most — Mondays, we will have an some open threadage for all of you to discuss the games, and life, or whatever it is you want to talk about.
On tap for tonight: a Big East throw down between 4th-ranked Villanova and host, Louisville (or Lullvull, as the locals pronounce it… trust me on this one). That game’s at 7, Eastern time. After that, we get an in-state Big 12 matchup with Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. Biggest reason to watch that game: the chance that Tiny Gallon shatters another backboard.
Let the festivities begin. By the way, tonight, the house rules are BYOB, since I’ll likely be working part of the night. And as usual, don’t break any of SouvenirCity’s Starting Lineup figurines… he hates when people mess with those things.
SouvenirCity
fetch
Tomas Verde
Beadlemaniacs 
Sup bitches.
Back at school?
/doesn’t really care.
yes. fuck.
So…how bad does Nova beat Louisville? I say 20.
Unless of course Rick Pitino tosses some money to have the entire Nova team aborted.
/too soon?
dead baby jokes are never out of fashion
In that case, what’s worse than 10 dead babies in one garbage can?
1 dead baby in 10 garbage cans.
sheesh, it’s time for a standard “you could build the Great Wall with all these bricks” comment.
So how much money do you have on this game, Fetch?
I’m sorry, but ‘Nova has no excuse for being abused by this press…they’ve got the perfect setup for breaking any press: a pivot and 4 guys that can dribble. Did Wright wake up this morning and forget that Pitino presses?
No, he’s just mesmerized by the all-white suit.
hey.
/just doing what i was told
Buy me a PS3
/do what you are told.
//please
you’re the one with the highfalutin job. yopu should be buying me a ps3!
/redistributing the wealth
Great, Karl Hess is reffing…get ready for some extremely questionable calls for Louisville followed by a Jay Wright ejection for sneezing at the wrong time.
I love being right
So I’m going to graduate by taking the minimum amount of credits.
/slacker
You’re going to graduate?
/impressed
barely. Big thanks to high school AP classes for letting me slack off.
so how come fetch has been getting burned all day today? because that was a sicktastic burn.
/respeck knucks to tomas.
shit that’s not a burn, that’s just truth. The fact that I’m even going to graduate taking pretty hard classes (granted, not a ton of credits) without opening a book is awesome-tastic.
That may not be a burn, but I got you with an ubersicknasticmegapwn burn earlier.
Wow, turn back to the game from HIMYM, and an immediate 2 quick, cheap fouls to send Nova’s guy to the bench. What a joke
/respeck knucks blown up
House time, mrejr
dude i totally forgot. next time remind me like the day of. now i have to watch the last 15 minutes
just watch on Hulu tomorrow.
good call
aren’t house episodes delayed for 8 days online?
mmm not that I’m aware of
hey!
there goes the neighborhood
wtf you suck.
“fetch9: stop by and say hey. “
I am like so totally jk-ing. ROTFLMAO!
Fetch knows girls?
/shocked
I hate you all and all your teams suck.
/especially Duke
//TM spencer096
Showing up fashionably late? That’s… um, fashionable.
I was in my study that has many leatherbound books and smells of rich mahogany.
Younglefty, will you be our honourary representative of all things whyyyte (bread)? You beat out one other candidate I had in mind.
I think I found my beadlemaniacs nemesis
Only through the end of the ACC tourney. After that I’m gonna channel SEC fans and live vicariously through other teams in the conference.
SEC! SEC! SEC!
/obligatory
Chances Tomas chanted this after Tennessee beat Kansas? 100%
Good thing you didn’t put money on that. I actually chanted “FRAUD CITY!”
/kidding
//I actually laughed out loud at Fetch’s expense.
Hey Alyssa Milano is guesting on Castle right now.
/beats whatever else is on
actually a big fan of Castle…now I must hate Castle until the end of the ACC tournament.
/nemesis’d
Well if we’re only 15 minutes into this nemesising, and I’ve already ruined a show you like, I think this is gonna work out just fine.
Alyssa Milano is still hot to watch on those re-runs of “Charmed” too.
Damnit. I miss another open thread. I am getting to see the end of this Bedlam game though.
At least I warned everyone about your Starting Lineup figurines, right?
/best co-worker evar. I know.
Kick ass Fetch …graduate, get the piece of paper, put it on your wall or stow it away, and then join the fight for decent jobs with decent benefits like the rest of us irrespective of your college track record. đŸ˜€ So of course you have figured out to party it up in the meantime like most, and I sure as fuck don’t blame you because things are harder to find work for which I am not overqualified for me now irrespective of experience than when I was graduated back in 1994. Several reasons for many in the same position for another discussion, but most of them are in Washington DC and New York City. East Coast fucks.