Eric Scholl🎙

@YDNsports Major props to @zlmorris1 for this piece. A first class guy with a very bright journalism future ahead of him! Special shout outs to @YaleAthletics, especially @YaleMBasketball & @YaleWBasketball for allowing me the privilege to be their voice. Honored. #ThisIsYale #BoolaBoola

@NikkiNic9384 Had all 4...in my 2nd of 2 brackets.

UConn, Illinois, Arizona & Michigan Who had that for their Final Four? And if you had it - was it in like your 50th bracket or did you have it in your original bracket?

This is great 😂

@dhurley15 Never Stop!

Basketball Capital of the World….Storrs Connecticut. 🐺💙🏀

@UConnMBB ONIONS ‼️

THE BRINGER OF RAIN 🌧️

@John_Fanta ONIONS‼️

Dan Hurley has had several accomplishments. But that comeback may be the most impressive of them all. UConn never quit. Never folded. Never gave in. And they are heading to the Final Four.

Never has someone been more right than Geno. The way the NCAA runs the women’s tournament is shameful.

Six weeks after September 11, 2001, twelve American soldiers were quietly loaded onto a helicopter in Uzbekistan and flown over the Hindu Kush mountains in the dead of night. No tanks. No armored vehicles. No air support waiting on the ground. Just twelve Green Berets, over a hundred pounds of gear each, and a mission that their own commanders privately doubted any of them would survive. They landed in a remote Afghan village called Dehi, in the pitch black, surrounded by a country they barely had maps for. And then someone handed them horses. Not metaphorically. Actual horses — Afghan stallions, tough as nails and famously difficult to control. Wooden saddles covered in carpet scraps. Stirrups so short their knees rode up around their ears. Captain Mark Nutsch, who'd grown up on a cattle ranch in Kansas and competed in collegiate rodeos, became trail boss on the spot. For the other ten men on his team — Operational Detachment Alpha 595 of the 5th Special Forces Group — the learning curve was immediate and unforgiving. The first words one of his sergeants learned in Dari were: "How do you make him stop?" They had linked up with General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a Northern Alliance warlord who controlled thousands of fighters and knew this territory like the back of his hand. The deal was simple: the Americans would call in precision airstrikes from horseback. Dostum's cavalry would do the charging. Together, they would take Mazar-i-Sharif — a Taliban stronghold of 250,000 people — and crack open northern Afghanistan. Military planners had estimated it would take two years. Task Force Dagger gave ODA 595 three weeks. For 23 days of nearly continuous combat, the Horse Soldiers lived like men from a different century. They ate what the Afghans ate. They slept on the ground in freezing mountain passes. They rode trails so narrow and sheer that one wrong step meant a thousand-foot drop. Staff Sergeant Will Summers started the mission at 185 pounds. He left Afghanistan five weeks later weighing 143. The Taliban had tanks. Soviet-era armor, antiaircraft guns, fortified positions dug into the mountains. Against this, twelve Americans on horseback radioed coordinates to aircraft circling invisibly above, and watched the positions erupt. On November 9, 2001, they rode into the kind of moment that people are not supposed to experience in the modern world. Nutsch and his team joined hundreds of Dostum's horsemen in a thundering cavalry charge across an open plain — directly into entrenched Taliban lines. Under fire. At a gallop. Calling in close air support between strides. It was the first cavalry charge of the 21st century. It was also the last. The next day, Mazar-i-Sharif fell. The Taliban's northern stronghold collapsed. Within weeks, the regime itself began to unravel — a domino effect that started with twelve men and borrowed horses in the mountains. All twelve of them came home. Zero American fatalities. Against a fortified enemy that outnumbered and outgunned them at every turn. Today, across from Ground Zero in New York City, there is a bronze statue — sixteen feet tall — of a Special Forces soldier on horseback, rifle across his lap, looking west. It honors ODA 595 and the teams who rode with them. Most Americans walk past it every day without knowing the story. Now you do.

Took down the flag, and then raised the banner. #GoMack x #MissionMerrimack

@NCAABuzzerBters @KentPavelka Talk about One Shining Moment! Well done Kent! @MarchMadnessMBB

41-year Nebraska basketball announcer Kent Pavelka’s (@KentPavelka) call of the final seconds as he witnesses Nebraska’s first ever NCAA Tournament win x.com/HuskerVidz25/s…

@GameDayConor Sounds like an NIL deal if I ever saw one!!!

The Siena roster

Grateful to be behind the PA mic for @YaleMBasketball in the @NITMBB first round matchup vs UNCW. #ThisIsYale 🐶🏀🔵⚪️ #PAAGameDay #NCAABasketball

@nhrJoeMorelli #MustBeMarch

.5 seconds left, ball thrown uo To Toure at the rim, he couldnt get it to go down, West Haven pulls it off, 43-42, celebrates a 2nd time. #ctbb

@BQuillmanQcast This game was what #d3hoops is all about. Great battle by both teams. W&J just had a little more. Great atmosphere in The Freeman Center! #MarchMadness

Final from Newport News, VA: Washington & Jefferson 82 Mount Union 77 NPI #62 beats NPI #18. W & J played great down the stretch! #d3hoops

@d3hoops A wild one w 1:23 left W&J down 2 w ball

Incredible back and forth game in Virginia. Mount Union has retaken the lead against W&J 62-61 with 7:43 remaining in 2nd half. Find live stats and video links here along with rest of tournament games: d3hoops.prestosports.com/seasons/men/20… #d3hoops #NCAAD3 ^DM

@RyanAlanScott Major props to the Hood area...great Ole downtown area!!

So, my weekend travel is confirmed. Montclair tomorrow for the Yeshiva-Bates game, then a quick jaunt up to Scranton for both WBB games there. Finally, a trip down to Hood for Saturday's second round game - and still home at a decent hour Saturday night! #d3hoops

A certain level of patience and grace is needed; of course, the customer is (usually) right. The broadcast is for those who can't get to the game site, but it still matters. A professional production matters a lot to me. #QualityMatters

I read some things about broadcast problems last night. Not with the FCIAC, I'm happy to say. That's a professional team. But even the best have issues. I've dealt with it at Greenwich and Brunswick (and it's not even something I'm in charge of!). But it happens. 1/

Anyone that was unhappy with the production quality of the Hudl broadcast of the SCC Championship Game can log into their account, click on purchases, click 'view' on the line item, & request a refund. I did & was promptly refunded in full. Appreciate the integrity @Hudl #ctbb

@SCCcommissioner @VerticalHoops @TownFairTire Thank you Al, you've told me all I need to know. #ctbb

Why do you need insight? @verticalhoops does a great job promoting SCC boys &girls basketball teams via social media and give the Player of the Game some cool gear. Isn't that what sponsorship activation is? BTW - does your car have @townfairtire tires? it is the best place to buy tires.

@SCCcommissioner Al, While I'd like to help, can you please share how it is that Vertical Hoops which is owned by the NDWH BB head coach is the lead sponsor for the SCC tournament? Including the SCC gear. Were they responsible for the media production tonight? Just looking for insight. #ctbb

@CalU90 definitely will. And the CIAC does a great job... You would be amazed what the leagues can do with the help!