Reverse Of The ’08 Title Tilt In An Obviously Far Less Important Round of 64 Game

Surely the media is building and will build up a “mere” (true if you lose, you are out), round of 32 St. John’s (-7) under Rick Pitino vs Arkansas, coached by John Calipari, game (Saturday around 2:45 in “el” East) however, the historic redux with a reverse result in a far, far (cue Ronald Colman, note the spelling, as Sydney Carton in “A Tale of Two Cities”) less important NCAA tilt was last night, when Calipari’s “Ark” team upset pre-season #1, but only a 7 seed Kansas.

In ’08 Calipari’s Memphis team had a significant title game lead vs Kansas, then and now coached by Bill Self, who has won 2 crowns.

However, Kansas got a truly all-time clutch tying shot from Mario Chalmers to tie the game, yielding overtime and won it in the extra period.

Click above to view Der Rose only “split the pair,” (ode to the great Joe Tait) and then Chalmers tying shot.

It will be 90 years this December 25th/aka Christmas since “Tale” based on Charles Dickens seminal novel was released.