I haven’t had a chance to blog about the ncaa men’s basketball tournament. Well I was doing really well; I believe I was in second place in this rather big poll but then after what happened the past two days in the elite eight I didn’t end up doing so well with my picks in those games. Although I do have UNC winning and they are still in it so I should be able to pick up some points if they end up winning and hopefully place in the top 3 so I can win some money. There hasn’t really been any major upsets or Cinderella stories this year in the tournament. There has been some pretty good games though. In the first round there were one night that there was like three overtime games. If I can remember right it was the Wisconsin game, the Siena game, and I can’t remember what the last one is but they were all pretty good games but none of the teams that one those close games ended up moving on to the next round. Then just last night, it was probably going to be the best game of the tournament, well it is so far. It was the Pitt vs. Nova game. Pitt being a number 1 seed and Nova being a number 3 seed. It was close the whole game but then Fields from Pitt, you know who he is, he’s the chubby point guard with the crazy hair and the headband, well he got fouled and made both free throws to tie the game with like something under 15 seconds left and Nova inbounds the ball and takes it full court and makes a little running lay-up type thing as time expired. But then they put .5 seconds back on the clock. I know you are thinking that isn’t enough time to do anything but actually Derek Fisher of the LA Lakers caught and shot with .4 left and won the game, so that had a chance. Pitt in bounded the ball to Fields he took a gather dribble and shot it banked hard off the backboard but it really looked like it had a chance and it pretty much was right on target. The game was real exciting I thought personally.
So in the final four it UNC a number 1 seed vs. Nova a number 3 seed and then Michigan State a two seed vs. UConn another number one seed. The winners play next Monday for the men’s national championship. Personally I hope UNC wins so that maybe I have a chance to win some money this year in the pools.