This year's March Madness has been one of the most incredible tournaments I have ever seen. It has literally been as if seedings have no value at all! We have seen one region in which the 10, 11, and 12 seeds all made the Sweet 16. We have seen a once again under-ranked Butler team make it to the Elite 8 for the second consecutive year, last year making an appearance in the championship game as a 5 seed. We have seen one of the better Duke teams of the last several years eliminated before the Elite 8 as a 1 seed. And best of all, we have seen nearly every game come down to the wire. There have been hardly any instances of the last 2 minutes of a game being filled with fouls and free throw shooting. It has truly been a tournament representative of everything people love about college basketball: underdogs defeating the "elite" teams, buzzer-beating shots to win games, exciting athletic performances, record-breaking scoring, emotional story lines such as BYU....the list goes on and on.
However, the one thing that all of these upsets and unexpected outcomes will likely cause is an even easier path to the championship for dominant teams like Kansas and Ohio State.
I'm sitting in 1st place in my bracket pool, and I'm looking pretty good cause one thing that this tournament will not see is the defeat of Ohio State! You may not like them, and neither do I really, but they are UN stoppable by anyone left in this tournament. There are simply no other big men who can compete with what Jared Sullinger puts out there. Too bad we'll only get to see him in college one year!!!
Wow. I kinda look like an idiot right now....Literally within 2 hours of this post, OSU was eliminated by #4 Kentucky. I will say that I was telling people the Kentucky game would be the hardest one remaining for Ohio State, but I by no means expected them to lose. You can't take anything away from Kentucky on this one, or say that Ohio State gave it away....Kentucky played their hearts out, got Sullinger in foul trouble, and managed to keep him from taking over the game. That's exactly what needed to be done to overthrow the number one seed in the tournament. Props to Kentucky. Sad day for my bracket.
ReplyDeleteYeah man, I can honestly say that this year my brackets have never been this bad. I mean who would of predicted Butler to potentially go to the championship game back to back. and VCU?!?! what???
ReplyDeleteThis has been by far the most exciting tournament I've ever seen, and I've been watching March Madness for a loooooooong time. This is what college basketball is all about! ...as much as it sucks for everyone's brackets haha
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