If you've been reading all my posts, you'd have to notice by now that I love sports. I could talk about sports all day, and I could talk about sports in all my blog posts. But, that's not the rules to the class, so I'm limited to just one a week.
This week, I'm going to talk about the NCAA Semi-Final basketball game I just watched. The first one of the two. The one between two teams that no one believed would be there, VCU and Butler.
Starting with VCU, a team that all the "experts" thought shouldn't even be in the tournament field, but they proved everyone wrong. I mentioned in an earlier blog post that I didn't think that they deserved in, but, I was definitely rooting for them in this one. As an 11 seed, they went from the "First Four" in, to the Final Four. How could someone not root for them? Their story is so great, and their coach's name is "Shaka Smart." That is just plain cool.
Moving on to Butler, who is moving into the National Title game for the second straight year. Last year, they made their way there as a 5-seed. This year, they are an 8-seed. No one really had them pegged to get farther than the second round, where they were supposed to lose to the 1-seed, Pitt. But, they were obviously able to get the big win there, and keep moving on. They made their way to the Final Four, without their best player from last year, Gordon Haywood, who went pro. Now, somehow, they defeated ODU, Pitt, Wisconsin, Florida, and VCU to get into the title game again.
Come Monday, you know that I will be rooting for Butler, regardless of who they are playing. UConn and Kentucky have plenty of national titles to their name already, it's time for the little guy to get one.
-GP
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