Abilene Christian — which is a real school, I fact checked it, this is a very professional blog — beat Texas Saturday night in the NCAA Tournament, 53-52.
So if you’re keeping score at home, our official Cinderellas are: Two 13 seeds, North Texas and Ohio, 14th-seeded Abilene Christian and 15th-seeded Oral Roberts.
Not a bad group. Thanks, March.
I’m not here to give you any quick-fire analysis of this one. It’s obvious from the score that the Wildcats probably worked to control the tempo; a slower pace favors the less-skilled team. Texas turned the ball over 23 times. Already we have the ingredients for a tournament upset.
But, ALSO, Abilene Christian had this guy:
ACU Senior Paul Hiepler:
Minutes played = 0
BENCH HYPE = ∞ pic.twitter.com/kBh8mVH8TV— CBS Sports CBB (@CBSSportsCBB) March 21, 2021
The horns down! He did the horns down!
Look, we’re accustomed to the fact that most Cinderella teams don’t last. We love them briefly and they leave us and that’s what this is.
But can we please keep Paul Hiepler around a bit longer? Literally just place him in the arena and film his reaction to whatever is going on. Put it on TruTV. You don’t have any other programming scheduled for that channel, TV execs.
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