I saw a Pizza Hut ad poll on Twitter a few days ago pitting “Crying Northwestern Kid” vs. Marcy Few and I chuckled, but the truth is I have a ton respect for John Phillips as a passionate fan and as [a wonderful young man using his internet fame to do good].(https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-spt-northwestern-kid-crying-john-phillips-pizza-hut-020190319-story.html).

They haven’t admitted it, but on review it sure looks to me like UVa’s miracle tying basket out of a missed free throw against Purdue to send the game to overtime was very much a called play. I think most teams need to practice this scenario and have a play ready for it.

Rui Hachimura is second team AP All-American and Brandon Clarke is third team. I would have reversed the two based based on all the games I watched and the clear statistical evidence, but Rui had the media hype all season long so no real surprise.

Looking at the combat mechanics of BT1 it’s interesting that melee attack success is based on Character AC + some minor factors vs Target AC. As a gamedev it seems like level value +bonus might be a more intuitive system for scaling difficulty.

The Adventurers’ Guild is the definitive Bard’s Tale focused message board. Contributors have done an incredible amount of reverse engineering to find out exactly how the combat engine and game mechanics worked across platforms and versions.

Looking forward to hearing some of my coworkers takes on Saturday’s loss, the Final Four, and next season. I’m surprisingly at peace with this year’s Elite 8 exit; I think the Duke and Carolina losses helped in that regard.

It’ll be interesting to see how the Final Four ratings turn out sans Duke, but I’m pretty intrigued by the remaining teams and the fact that Virginia was the only 1 seed to advance. Texas Tech seems as likely as anybody.

I don’t expect Rui to come back and I don’t think he should, but he does kind of strike me as the rare player that might listen to his heart and do something unexpected. Zags are still loaded next year even if he and Clarke leave as projected, but could use a veteran point guard.

69-75 Gonzaga loses to Texas Tech. Just too many little mistakes.

Zags are killing me and my Twitter timeline this half. Nothing funny about this game I guess.