Brackets

The National Collegiate Athletic Association appears to be confused with geography, what with UConn in the West, playing in Philadelphia.

Policy Proposal: Seeds 10 and down should be reserved for non-major conferences. If you are a team from a major conference, and you aren't better then a 10 seed, you don't deserve to be in the tournament PERIOD.

The committee loves putting the Connecticut and Washington Huskies in the same bracket.

As nobody coaches the chip on the shoulder like John Calipari, the committee did him a favor.

UConn played Memphis last year. Memphis opened up a 20-5 lead. UConn, on the back of Jerome Dyson's defense, came back and led 41-40 at halftime. It was tied 60 all with 9 minutes left, before Rose and CDR (who scored 70% of their teams points) pulled Memphis away. AJ Price had, perhaps, the most impressive game of his career.

Uconn matches up somewhat poorly to this years Memphis. Without Dyson, they have no one to guard Evans (Witness Sam Young vs UConn). On the other hand, in as much as UConn's most dangerous set is the missed shot, defending UConn is really difficult.

I remain convinced that the key to UConn's tourney progress is Scottie Haralson who brings a bigger body on Defense and the only pure shooter on the team.