- The Final Four certainly isn’t all chalk, but it’s filled with nothing but college basketball blue-bloods, which could make for an exciting week in New Orleans - Luke Winn takes the first look at the Final Four - A Final Four of traditional powers should make for a bevy of interesting storylines to follow this week - Despite a loaded Final Four field, not very many people had these four teams making in to New Orleans in their brackets - Kentucky and Ohio State are the favorites out of Vegas to be squaring off a week from tonight for the National Championship - Did anybody think that Lenzelle Smith Jr. would have played as big of a role in the Buckeye’s march to the Final Four as he did?
- Myron Medcalf provides a fantastic analysis on the new era of collegiate big men, especially the ones on display in the Sweet-16 - Critically-acclaimed journalist Bob Ryan put together a fantastic (and lengthy) article on this year in New England college basketball - If Florida beats Marquette, and Louisville beats Michigan State, the West region finals would pit former-Providence star Billy Donovan against his former-Providence coach Rick Pitino.
- The big news item of the day deals with Syracuse center Fab Melo, who will be unable to participate in the NCAA tournament due to eligibility issues.
After 14 hectic days, Championship Week is finally over. 31 tickets to the Big Dance were automatically punched in a two-week span which featured some monumental upsets, brilliant individual performances and classic battles.
