Merry basketball Christmas! The tournament if off to a fine start. With 16 games in 12 hours there are bound to be some strange moments.  Here are the bench celebrations, nut shots and awkward fans and fist bumps from Thursday’s tournament action.

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8. Here’s Greg Gumbel and Ernie kicking the tournament off right with an awkward fist bump handshake thing. 

7. You just hit a huge three against to go up four on a team you we’re supposed to demolish. What’s the appropraite bench celebration. Well, it’s three point monocle face of course. Just kidding. 

6. Butler’s bench likes the three point monocle too. They just do it a little fancier. 

5. St. Mary’s desperately needs a three. So, Beau Levesque lines it up and throws it out of bounds (twice). 

4. Chane Behanan blow the dunk. Ya dun goofed. 

3. Cal defender reaches for the ball, but gets mostly face.

2. It’s got to be hot in that Ram suit. No wonder this guy’s so sleepy. 

 1. Crabbe: “He stepped on the lin- oh, dear god…”