Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, and Ohio State have all rode non-paved roads to the Super Dome. Every year there seems to be a team that sneaks in, or had an easy path because of preceding upsets, but this year’s on the contrary.
Kansas and Ohio State will fight for the right to determine who will get beat by Kentucky in the final. They each had big victories over shorthanded North Carolina and Syracuse squads. And the college basketball world awaits the battle that no one saw in Allen Field House (Lawrence, KS) last December.
Thomas Robinson vs. Jared Sullinger. NBA Scouts are licking their chops. Just the irony of the New Orleans Hornets needing a ‘big man’ makes it all the more better.
Sullinger sat out in their previous matchup and watched as his Buckeyes fell to a superior Kansas team (without himself). This time, they will be on a neutral court in New Orleans, and the Buckeyes have their workhorse. Despite all this, Robinson is still the best player in the country.
Edge: Kansas by 2
In the other semifinal, one of (if not) the biggest rivalries in college basketball is taking place. Surely everyone’s heard though.
The hype, the emotion, the hatred. It’s the Cats and the Cards. It’s Caliparri and Pitino. The state of Kentucky and their basketball gods at their finest.
All of that picked into one 94X50 foot piece of hardwood. When emotion runs high, scoring is low. And when scoring is low, Kentucky’s Anthony Davis and Louisville’s Gorgui Dieng are the centerfold of it all. Davis averages 4.6 blocks per contest, opposing Dieng who posts an impressive 3.2 himself.
It will be unmatched. It’s unheraldness will trump even the championship itself.
Kentucky versus Louisville; for the “championship”. The media championship.
Edge: Kentucky by 6
