An Interesting Season

Way back in November, I wrote a piece outlining the eight teams that I thought had a chance to win the championship.  They were (in a relative order):  UCLA (the favorite), Tennessee, Memphis, North Carolina, Kansas, Georgetown, Louisville and Michigan St.  Now, on the even of the tournament, if you ask me again, my answer will be somewhat similar, with the only exceptions are that I would take out Michigan St. and add Duke and Texas.  I would probably change the order to (in my opinion today):  UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas, Memphis, Georgetown, Tennessee, Texas, Louisville and Duke.  I am not saying this to say how great my predictions were because I did not really go out on a limb with anyone, except Michigan St. (who didn’t pan out) and maybe Tennessee (though it didn’t take long for everyone to catch on).  The interesting thing about the fact that the two lists are so similar is that I cannot remember a year that has panned out, for the most part, pretty much exactly as most people would have envisioned.  There are no surprise great teams.  There are no pre-season top 10’s that missed the tournament.  Things kind of held to how everyone thought they would.  I was just saying the other day that I cannot recall another college basketball season where if you had asked me every day from October to March who the best team was, I would have answered with the exact same thing, every day.  Maybe that is just my blind faith in this UCLA team, but it is still odd that I never questioned it.