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| Baylor's Perry Jones III goes up to contest the shot of KU's Thomas Robinson. This year's tournament is chock full of star players and exciting teams. |
The first third of the month has giving us some crazy basketball games. Minnesota played two consecutive overtime games, the Conference USA tournament has been sneaky exciting and NC State is making a run at the ACC title. Notre Dame and South Florida was a fun one to watch and Virginia Tech almost knocked off Duke. UNC did knock off Duke on their Senior Night in blowout fashion.
Tonight, however, was the first night of the tournament the one thing we have been waiting for. It was the element of March Madness that you needed a taste of in the Conference Tournament. Some of the top teams needed to go down. The games that cause us to make those outrageous statements and make us postulate on who is going to make runs in our NCAA tournament brackets.
Today, our victims were the Syracuse Orange and the Kansas Jayhawks.
Cincy and Baylor provided our first important upsets of the tournament. The first one was another reminder that even in a down year, the Big East Tournament is still be best show in town. The second one has us talking one seeds. Tonight, Missouri defeated Texas in the other Big 12 semifinal and will play Baylor in the championship. If Missouri wins this tournament, they deserve the number one seed. As for Baylor, their run in this tournament is already (and prematurely) being compared to UConn's run through the Big East and NCAA tournaments.
Granted, Saturday will not bring a "Border War" part three, which is disappointing considering that Kansas-Missouri has easily been the most exciting conference series this season. However, college basketball has a lot more excitement to offer us. In two weeks from Monday, we will have four teams left in College Basketball. We have many more giants that need to fall. Brackets need to be made. Articles need to be written. Let us all put on our sports analyst cap this weekend and call in sick to work on Thursday and Friday. March Madness has infected us and we need to get it out of our system.
Game. By game. By extraordinary game.
Tonight, however, was the first night of the tournament the one thing we have been waiting for. It was the element of March Madness that you needed a taste of in the Conference Tournament. Some of the top teams needed to go down. The games that cause us to make those outrageous statements and make us postulate on who is going to make runs in our NCAA tournament brackets.
Today, our victims were the Syracuse Orange and the Kansas Jayhawks.
Cincy and Baylor provided our first important upsets of the tournament. The first one was another reminder that even in a down year, the Big East Tournament is still be best show in town. The second one has us talking one seeds. Tonight, Missouri defeated Texas in the other Big 12 semifinal and will play Baylor in the championship. If Missouri wins this tournament, they deserve the number one seed. As for Baylor, their run in this tournament is already (and prematurely) being compared to UConn's run through the Big East and NCAA tournaments.
Granted, Saturday will not bring a "Border War" part three, which is disappointing considering that Kansas-Missouri has easily been the most exciting conference series this season. However, college basketball has a lot more excitement to offer us. In two weeks from Monday, we will have four teams left in College Basketball. We have many more giants that need to fall. Brackets need to be made. Articles need to be written. Let us all put on our sports analyst cap this weekend and call in sick to work on Thursday and Friday. March Madness has infected us and we need to get it out of our system.
Game. By game. By extraordinary game.
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