This should super not be an NCAA Tournament thing but here we are.
Previously in March Madness, Kyle Keller, the coach of Stephen F. Austin, blamed his millennial athletes‘ habit of looking at their phones instead of scouting as one of the reasons the school was bumped from the first round. Nevermind that SFA was a No. 14 underdog to Texas Tech’s No. 3 seed and played an incredibly competitive game. Nevermind that only Keller’s seniors would technically count as millennials at all. It happened and we all chuckled that someone was still doing the blame-millennials thing. Then, a bunch of other stuff happened and we moved on.
But it turns out Keller is not the only college basketball coach anxious about his players’ phone usage. During the Buffalo-Kentucky second-round game, CBS sideline reporter shared that Buffalo Bulls head coach Nate Oats confiscated all his players’ phones at an undisclosed curfew, presumably to keep them from scrolling Twitter or Instagram or Snapchat or whatever it is that the teens are into these days.
Buffalo was responsible for a bracket-busting upset over No. 4 and legitimate Final Four favorite Arizona on day one of the tournament after which their fans channeled their inner Bills Mafia. So, one would think that whatever Oats’ players were doing — whatever was their night-before routine — was working.
Kentucky won the game, 51-42, so who is to stay what role phones did or did not play in the Bulls performance. Probably no role.
Anyways, Black Mirror is reality and all that, but maybe chill out about teens being on their phones like literally everyone else in this world.
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