In what might have been the craziest NCAA men's basketball tournament we have ever seen, the final four gets even crazier. Out of twenty million brackets created throughout the world, only 37 of them correctly predicted the four teams that would be in the final four.
This was the first time since the 1970s where no number 1 seeds made the elite eight and obviously none will be participating in the final 3 games. To create even more chaos, the highest seed in the final four is the Connecticut Huskies coming in at a number 4 seed.
Anything is possible and the tournament has certainly proved that this year, but right now the favorite to take home the trophy is the boys from Connecticut. They have absolutely dominated every team they have had in their path leading up to this and do not look like they are slowing down anytime soon.
Along with being the favorite, UConn was the most likely out of the four teams to make it to this point. The other teams that are in the final four are San Diego State, Miami, and Florida Atlantic. The crazy thing about these three teams is that they were all nearly eliminated in the first round.
From last year having four blue bloods to this year having zero blue bloods is pretty surprising. The blue bloods have ran college basketball for a long time and these teams are just showing the rest of college basketball that the blue bloods can be overcome.
The first game on Saturday will be between FAU and San Diego State. If I were to have told you that either one of FAU or SDSU would be participating in the championship game at the start of March, you would have called me crazy. FAU has proved every doubter wrong and basically every game they've won this tournament has been an upset.
To me, FAU is so hot right now and have a better team than SDSU so I see them getting to the championship game. It is so difficult to predict games during this tournament because most of the time, I've been wrong. The people that are paid to talk about and study college basketball have been dead wrong, it's simply a guessing game at this point.
The next game is the Miami Hurricanes taking on the Connecticut Huskies. These are two teams which have been steamrolling as of late and have star power that is very hard to contain. Miami's two stars, Nijel Pack and Isiah Wong will match up against Andre Jackson and Adama Sanogo for the Huskies.
This should be a great game and for the Hurricanes it is going to be very difficult to stop this Huskies team because of the roll that they are currently on right now. I'm definitely looking forward to see who wins this game because in my opinion, whoever wins this game will take the championship in the next game.
Saturday can't come any sooner as FAU takes on SDSU and Miami takes on UConn. In one of the most unique final fours displaying four schools which are uncharacteristically good at basketball this year, could the tournament get even wilder this weekend? We will find out but one thing is for sure, anything can happen in March.
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