Monday, March 19, 2007
''Who will be this year's George Mason?''
That was one of the big questions ESPN and other media analysts bandied about for the past month.
Because someone had to be.
Someone had to fill Cinderella's slippers.
I think I even heard one analyst say a Cinderella would win it all this year (okay, maybe it was Rick Pitino... But still.)
So who is this year's George Mason?
Answer: No one.
Or, if you prefer, it's UNLV, the 7 seed.
Not much of a Cinderella story, is it?
In the big picture, it's hard to look at UNLV, a team that was one of the dominant programs of the 80's and early 90's, as a true Cinderella. If they won it all everyone would just say, "Oh, UNLV's back. Duh."
Where's the 10 seed that we are so used to seeing in the Sweet 16?
How about Southern Illinois? But they're a 4 seed. It's hard to juice a team that won 27 games, beating Virginia Tech not once, but twice, as an underdog story.
This bracket looks more like the typical women's bracket in the Sweet 16. If you added up all the seeds, I bet it'd be the lowest total since the field expanded to 64 teams.Where have you gone,
George Mason, where have you gone?
Because someone had to be.
Someone had to fill Cinderella's slippers.
I think I even heard one analyst say a Cinderella would win it all this year (okay, maybe it was Rick Pitino... But still.)
So who is this year's George Mason?
Answer: No one.
Or, if you prefer, it's UNLV, the 7 seed.
Not much of a Cinderella story, is it?
In the big picture, it's hard to look at UNLV, a team that was one of the dominant programs of the 80's and early 90's, as a true Cinderella. If they won it all everyone would just say, "Oh, UNLV's back. Duh."
Where's the 10 seed that we are so used to seeing in the Sweet 16?
How about Southern Illinois? But they're a 4 seed. It's hard to juice a team that won 27 games, beating Virginia Tech not once, but twice, as an underdog story.
This bracket looks more like the typical women's bracket in the Sweet 16. If you added up all the seeds, I bet it'd be the lowest total since the field expanded to 64 teams.Where have you gone,
George Mason, where have you gone?
# posted by Mike @ 3/19/2007 
