UT (6) vs Aggy (3) in West

The fans in OKC should always root against UT at any time - except hopefully when / if we play A&M.

Sooners: although we are your biggest rivals, we are also your biggest business partners. Hold you nose and cheer for us just this one time against the Aggies (they ran away).
 
Yeah, "2 and que" is kind of a college baseball thing, but IMHO, regardless of sport or tournament structure, would refer to any tournament in which you are only out of the tournament after you lose two games, not two straight ---- and you go to the parking lot to eat bar-b-que. But it doesn't mean two straight games.

For the Big Dance, as a single elimination tournament, that would be winning the first game, then losing the second, to get the pleasure of dining on various dead meats smoldering on the grill instead of preparing for your next opponent.

Conference baseball tournaments (at least the Big XII) are double elimination.
Regionals are double elimination.
Super regionals are best 2 of 3.

You are never "one and done" in a baseball tournament, only in basketball. So "two and que" IMHO mostly refers to basketball, since there is only one way you're 2 games and out in the Big Dance, it's by winning the first and losing the second.

In baseball, you can go 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, and really, IMHO, only the 0-2 is a "two and que" since the latter are 3 or 4 games.

Whatever.
 
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The term came from the College World Series. I was there when this started. Each team is assigned a local sponsor.

Each team had a cookout at the local park in Omaha, that their sponsor would put on. The first teams out would have to have their BQ at that local park first. The CWS was a straight two loss elimination tournament then. So there would be teams eliminated after playing two games, then they got their cookout.

This gave birth to the term "2 and bq or q." How did you do at the CWS, we went two and q or que. Losing two straight games.

The term then became standard baseball slang, for losing your first two games, in a double elimination baseball tournament. Has been for many years now.

I don't know if they still do the cookout at the park still, for each team at the CWS.
 
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