Breaking Down The Final Four

By Trevor, Section College
Posted on Sun Mar 30 2008 at 8:40 PM EST
More on: NCAA Tournament, Kansas, North Carolina, UCLA, Memphis (all tags)

by Trevor Freeman

For the first time ever, all four top seeds made it to the Final Four.  The only plus to this in my opinion is that it should shut up everybody who claims the current tournament system does not reward the best regular season teams.  That is because the four teams remaining were without a doubt the best four teams during this year's college basketball season.  Outside of Kansas who had an epic tussle with Davidson in the Elite Eight, they all romped their way into this Final Four with convincing wins in the Regional Finals and Semifinals.  We have four bluebloods attending this event as UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas and Memphis represent the college basketball elite.  Without further ado, let's breakdown the matchups.

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Our Look At The Final Four

By Trevor, Section College
Posted on Mon Mar 26 2007 at 3:20 PM EST
More on: March Madness, college basketball, Flordia, UCLA, Georgetown, Ohio State (all tags)

By Trevor Freeman

Goosebumps.  That was what filled my arm down the stretch of the Georgetown-North Carolina game as I watched the Hoyas rally back to deliver a revenge punch that had been twenty-five years in the making.  And I'll be quite honest.......I was worried that this Elite Eight was going to leave us wanting for more.  I thought the only goosebumps I was going to get all weekend was from a second viewing of last Wednesday's "Friday Night Lights" ("friends......friends....Texas forever....Texas forever man").  Then the last seven minutes of regulation and overtime gave us the stirring comeback we had been dying for all weekend.  

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