It was a great weekend of basketball this past weekend. Although I was hoping to see the Texas Longhorns in the Final Four and hopefully pull off the near impossible football National Championship and basketball National Championship in the same season, you can't argue with the games that were played.
Florida, LSU, UCLA, and one of the most unlikely of the entire field, George Mason University, all advanced to the Final Four. And if George Mason proved anything this weekend, it's that no one can predict college basketball, especially me.
As I sat watching the end of the GMU-UCONN game yesterday with my girlfriend, I showed just how much I really know about the game. "Wow, that sucks for George Mason," I said after Denham Brown's reverse lay up sent the game to overtime.
"Why?", my girlfriend asked.
"Because the better team always wins in overtime," I responded. "And UCONN is the far better team."
Oops. Oh well, it's one of those mistakes that you make that you don't really regret. And of course I'll be watching on Saturday as George Mason takes on Florida in an extremely tough match up, which Florida will probably win. But if George Mason has proved anything this tournament, it's that you can never count them out.
Between the NCAA tournament, finally reading The Da Vinci Code(which was a great book by the way, even if the author stole it), and spending time with my family, it was a great weekend.
Looking ahead to this week, the playoff races are heating up in the NBA. In the west, the Spurs and Mavericks are tied for the conference's best record and the first seed in the playoffs. The Hornets are two games back of Sacto for the last playoff spot. And with only a .5 game separating them, the Grizzlies and Clippers are deciding who is going to get the fifth seed and play either the Spurs or Mavericks in the first round.
In the east, Detroit still holds the league's best record and home court throughout the playoffs, and Washington and Indiana are tied for the fifth spot with each having a 35-33 record. The Bulls are still fighting to get the final playoff spot, but are 1.5 games behind the 76ers.
With the NBA's playoff races continuing and the final four this weekend, is it any wonder why March is the best month of the year?
