Penny’s Memphis Tigers PROBABLY punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament with a 76-73 win over Cincinnati. At 22-7, with wins over Nebraska, Stanford, Ole Miss, Auburn, and Texas A&M, I don’t see how the tournament committee could deny Memphis, even if the Tigers lose their two remaining games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are those two remaining games?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s speculate for a moment. Say Memphis beats SMU and Houston, wins 2 games in the AAC tournament, then loses in the tournament finals to Houston on a neutral court. They’d finish 26-8 with wins over the Power Five schools listed above. Would that be enough for a 7 seed? The advantage of a 7 seed (as opposed to an 8 or 9) is, you’re guaranteed not to see a 1 seed during the opening weekend of March Madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All right. Usually I have a long list in Evernote of things to post about, but not today. Let’s see what news I can scrounge up…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Local on Main will do a crawfish boil next Sunday, March 5 from 2 PM until they run out. $15 gets you a pound of crawfish plus all the fixins, and there will be $15 beer buckets too. Cornhole and Rock, Paper, Scissors. Not sure who will be boiling the crawfish (that can matter A LOT) but I will find out this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today is National Kahlua Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Already in the upper 60s as I type this before the sun comes up. MWN predicts<\/a> a high of 75 and a low of 48. Any rain will happen before 9 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bella DuBalle, a drag performer, hostess, and drag show coordinator at Atomic Rose, spoke to ABC 24<\/a> about the incredibly stupid and narrow-minded new state law concerning drag performances. Rose’s manager Charlie explained that the venue would need a strip club license to continue operating drag shows. The club is technically within the Beale entertainment district and the combination of strip club license + liquor license isn’t allowed there. “This is our lifeblood,” said DuBalle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n That’s all the news I can find. If I see Butt Slut #1, she’ll probably tell me, “YOUR BLOG SUCKED TODAY, PAUL,” as she usually does when I do a short post. I wonder if she realizes, she’s one of my top candidates for a plus-one if I win a trip on The Price Is Right Live<\/a>? She should be extra nice to me for the next 33 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back tomorrow with more news, if there is any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Penny’s Memphis Tigers PROBABLY punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament with a 76-73 win over Cincinnati. At 22-7, with wins over Nebraska, Stanford, Ole Miss, Auburn, and Texas A&M, I don’t see how the tournament committee could deny Memphis, even if the Tigers lose their two remaining games. What are those two remaining games? … Continue reading “Monday update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26477,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions\/26477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}