Last night, on Selection Sunday, the US College basketball league's post season has basically been kicked off with the selection of the tournament brackets shortly after the last division-champion has been crowned in the regular season-ending division championship tournaments. While the winner or these tournaments are automatically qualified for the NCAA Championship Tournament (also dubbed “March Madness”), the remaining spots are being filled by an expert team in a selection ceremony.
On Thursday and Friday this week the teams will talk serious in the first round of the NCAA Championship Tournament. Every game is basically a final and thus intensity of the games will be very high. Whether we will see another game that is only decided after almost 4 hours and after 6 overtimes, like we have had in the Big East Championship Tournament quarterfinal between the Syracuse Orange and the Connecticut Huskies, is rather unlikely, but the teams will show maximum effort every minute of the games.
Let's see whether overall #1 seed Louisville Cardinals go all the way to claim the title in the Final Four in Detroit on April 6th or whether the Pittsburgh Panthers, for many the best team this year live continue their strength. Coach K, last summer responsible for the US Dream Team in Beijing’s Olympic basketball tournament, is another hot candidate to bring his Duke Blue Devils to the Final Four, but also Hasheem Thabeet, A.J. Price and Connecticut Huskies, Blake Griffin and the Oklahoma Sooners, Tyler Hansbrough & Ty Lawson with the North Carolina Tar Heels or Jonny Flynn and the Syracuse Orange are hot candidate for becoming 2009 NCAA Champions.
On Thursday and Friday this week the teams will talk serious in the first round of the NCAA Championship Tournament. Every game is basically a final and thus intensity of the games will be very high. Whether we will see another game that is only decided after almost 4 hours and after 6 overtimes, like we have had in the Big East Championship Tournament quarterfinal between the Syracuse Orange and the Connecticut Huskies, is rather unlikely, but the teams will show maximum effort every minute of the games.
Let's see whether overall #1 seed Louisville Cardinals go all the way to claim the title in the Final Four in Detroit on April 6th or whether the Pittsburgh Panthers, for many the best team this year live continue their strength. Coach K, last summer responsible for the US Dream Team in Beijing’s Olympic basketball tournament, is another hot candidate to bring his Duke Blue Devils to the Final Four, but also Hasheem Thabeet, A.J. Price and Connecticut Huskies, Blake Griffin and the Oklahoma Sooners, Tyler Hansbrough & Ty Lawson with the North Carolina Tar Heels or Jonny Flynn and the Syracuse Orange are hot candidate for becoming 2009 NCAA Champions.
Definitely not the road to perdition! The tournament bracket is the road to glory.
To take a look at potential future NBA- or Euroleague players and to find out who will be this year’s NCAA Champion you can watch the games either on ESPN America (available on UPC Digital) or live on the web on a dedicated Video-on-demand site by the NCAA.
Kerstin & Markus
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