Want a chance to outsmart THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON and earn eternal glory?  What better way to prove your worth to us than to join the Inaugural Casual Hoya Bracket Contest! 

What's the Casual Prize you ask?   A lifetime supply of free Casual Headbands?  An autographed photo of you with the Casual Hoya bloggers?  A date for your wife and/or girlfriend with the Casual Hoya bloggers?   

YOU TELL US!

The best idea from the comments thread below will be selected and announced prior to the tipoff of the Tournament, but for now be sure to sign up and make your picks. 

Get in the action now!
CLICK HERE! and Join a Group with the ID and Password below. 

Make sure you sign up your brackets with your blogger names so we can identify and ridicule you mercilessly.

Group ID# is 106171

Password is: casual

I have some questions.  What drugs was the selection committee on when they drew up the 2010 NCAA Tournament?  Did they watch basketball over the past month?  Have they ever watched a game of basketball?  Is Coach K on the committee?  Is Dick Vitale on the committee?  Are all members of the committee on Duke's faculty?  Did Bill Self sleep with a committee member's wife?  Did Bob Huggins sleep with a committee member's daughter?  Does someone on the committee want to sleep with Jay Wright?  Did the committee mix up Georgetown and Villanova's resumes because they are both catholic schools?  Is there a real bracket that is coming out later?  

(More after the Jump)

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As you all know, this Saturday is the final home game of the year. For those of you lucky enough to attend the game, this could be your last chance to:

• Enjoy the sights and sounds of the amazing game day experience
• Be crammed into Clyde's and be outnumbered by opposing fans Pre-game at the Channel and receive a Casual Headband
• Pay ridiculous Verizon Center prices for beer and snacks
• Play your own version of ‘beat the clock' in order to acquire enough beer to get you to the end of the game  
• Help build a case against the treacherous season ticket holders that continue to pollute the lower bowl with opposing teams' colors
• See Greg Monroe dressed in a Hoya uniform at home

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WATERLOO.

GETTYSBURG.

STALINGRAD. 

HIROSHIMA.

CASUAL HOYA AT GIN & TONIC.

The Irish Channel Pub, 5th & H NW

Ladies and gentlemen, loyal followers and devoted haters, this Saturday, March 6th, we are bringing you a special all day Boozefest to celebrate the Reunion Tour of Casual Hoya!  That's right kids, for the FIRST TIME IN HISTORY all Casual Hoya bloggers will be together in one place!!!  Come join us at the Irish Channel beginning at 10:30am to receive your Casual Headband, toast to victory before the game, and march to an empty Verizon!!!

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL...

WHAT ELSE COULD THERE POSSIBLY BE YOU ASK?

FIND OUT AFTER 'THE JUMP'!!!!!!!!!

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After taking a required-by-Vatican-law period of mourning on the news of Austin Freeman IV's new medical diagnosis, it is time for us here at THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON to dispense with the chatboard pleasantries and get down to brass tacks, as the coach in "Not Another Teen Movie" would have it:

Trainer: It doesn't look good coach..
The Coach: Can he play?
Trainer: He's in a coma!
The Coach: ANSWER MY QUESTION, CAN HE PLAY?
Trainer: I don't even think he can breathe, we gotta take him to a hospital immediately!
The Coach: YOU LISTEN TO ME RIGHT NOW, I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO, REGGIE RAY STAYS IN THE GAME GODDAMNIT!!!

Now, those of us who run THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON here have absolutely zero medical training.  That is why we write for a blog.  But we did go to college with very smart friends, and we have enlisted a few of them to provide the following esteemed medical opinions on the two important questions that everyone wants to know but has been reluctant to ask:

1) Can Austin Freeman play?

2) What is the worst that could happen if Austin Freeman does play?

Answers after The Jump:

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With one game left to go in the regular season, Georgetown sits at 19-9 overall and 9-8 in the Big East. We all know by now that Georgetown's fate in March rests with the Big Three of Greg Monroe, Austin Freeman, and Chris Wright.  Depth, clearly, has been a serious issue.  With a few days to go until the Cincinnati Bearcats invade Verizon, let's take a look to see what this Georgetown team would look like if DaJuan Summers didn't leave for the NBA, and both Vernon Macklin and Jeremiah Rivers elected not to leave the Hilltop for finer pastures in Gainesville and Bloomington, respectively.  And yes, we know this is FantasyLand.  But frankly, we don't care.

So, had everyone stayed, what would the team look like now?

"Back to the Future" after The Jump:

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You are probably used to the Sleeping with the Enemy feature that is published right before games; a segment that sheds insight into Georgetown's opponents and the traditions of rival fans.  Unfortunately, Smoking Musket unnamed West Virginia blog decided not to partake in our fun, calling us "yet another rakish Georgetown prick with very little sense of humor."  To be honest, while we weren't expecting much from the Mountaineer faithful, we are slightly disappointed they could not answer simple questions like who they dislike more - Rich Rodriquez or John Beilein, or even comment on the unruly reputation West Virginia fans have developed over the past few seasons.  They obviously did not realize that the questions are an opportunity to respond to stereotypes about the school and that we are throwing them a softball to defend themselves while attack Georgetown at the same time.  West Virginia fans not understanding what everyone else finds fairly straightforward - who would have thought?!?  Oh well, can't win them all.

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So instead, we present to you this story, full of excitement, intrigue, passionate love affairs and unbridled enthusiasm.

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There are lots of things to dislike about Notre Dame Head Coach Mike Brey.  First off, he was an assistant coach at DeMatha High School under Morgan Wooten, who had a long-standing feud with John Thompson Jr. throughout the 1970's, 80's and 90's.  In fact, Austin Freeman was the first DeMatha player to sign with Georgetown in over 35 years - odd considering DeMatha was the premier Washington DC high school and Georgetown was the top college in the area.  

Brey was also an assistant at Duke for eight years, right around the time Georgetown began to slide and Duke rose to prominence.  

Brey stole two Big East Coach of the Year Awards from John Thompson III.  He won the honors in back-to-back years (2006-07 and 2007-08), which also happen to be the two years Thompson led the Hoyas to back-to-back regular season titles for the first time in school history.  I guess those fourth and second place finishes were more impressive.

And Brey looks like a fool on and off the court.