With the announcement of
the NCAA March Madness brackets today America will once again enter the
era of peace brought about when college hoops overwhelm political procrastination
and all the other nonsense that dominates the nightly news.
Finally, television will
be filled with real reality TV, not the manufactured BS fed to us by idiotic
television producers, writers, studios, and sponsors. What you see is what really happened from the
tears to the cheers, the Cinderella stories to the last second upsets. You will see power and prayers compete for
dominance as 67 teams set out to derail the mighty Kentucky Wildcats.
UK secret weapon, Ashley Judd |
I am a devoted Wildcat
fan, but the Arizona variety not Kentucky . You see, I played basketball for the University of Arizona of the PAC 12 back when UCLA,
our main opponent, was winning national championships every year. It was not until much later we discovered boosters
were paying some of the UCLA players a salary, illegal of course, during that
incredible John Wooden run.
For those of you too young
to appreciate history, Wooden, the Wizard of Westwood, won ten national championships in
12 years including seven in a row, feats that will never happen again. Between 1964 and 1975, UCLA won the ten national
basketball championships and won again in 1995 for a total of eleven. Kentucky
has won eight. However, UK wins spanned
from 1948 until 2012, and most likely number 11 will come in 2015, spanning 67
years. Overall Kentucky has the most wins of all schools in
history with 2,208.
There are three teams in
the top five nicknamed the Wildcats, Kentucky ,
Arizona , and
Villanova. If Kentucky
and Arizona keep
winning, they will meet in the final four semi-finals. All three of these Wildcats could be in the
final four, something that has never happened before. Of course the University
of Arizona would have to beat number
one seeded Wisconsin
to get to the final four.
UK Coach Calipari |
The road to the
championship begins Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day, March 17, and ends the day
after Easter, April 6, at Indianapolis . The last team to have a perfect record and win
the championship was Indiana
in 1976 when they finished 32-0. UK is already
undefeated and 34-0 with six games to win to be champion. If they do win, it will shatter the 32 game unbeaten-
record for the year and UK
would be 40-0.
Stay tuned for some of the
top games in the early rounds.
Did I mention the only national championship won by Arizona was in 1997 and they beat, guess who, Kentucky. Arizona prevented UK from winning three in a row.
Goooooo Cats or Kats.
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