March Sadness

We're down to the fianl game of another stellar NCAA tournament. This year's action was absolutely fantastic, perhaps the most entertaining in years; and that includes last year's tourney, when we had games like Vermont knocking out defending champion Syracuse in the first round.

There were some unbelievable runs in this tournament, we never would have guessed that we would still have been talking about some of them as late in the dance as we were.

But hats off to the George Masons, the Wichita States, and the LSU's of this year's tournament. These teams all turned heads this season and they made it all so much fun, not just for us, but for themselves as well. And isn't that what it's all about, anyway?

So, although most of us didn't win our pools, our favorite teams were knocked out, and our brackets looked like hell by the time that it was all said and done, it was a heck of a ride.

It may be a bit anticlimactic that the teams that won over America's hearts, George Mason and LSU, didn't make it to the final game, but let's enjoy this championship game anyway. It's been years since UCLA was in the final battle, and Florida has never been a basketball powerhouse. So let's shift gears and embrace this game, so be it for different reasons then we may have wanted to, but for the fun of what it means to the two teams that are there. And congratulations to UCLA and Florida, whoever wins. It will be a tremendous accomplishment for either club. And for the rest of us, there's nothing more that we can say, except for thanks and we'll get 'em next year.