Thursday, March 29, 2007

Who's Not Going to Win the National Championship

Since it's been established I can't adequately select the winners of a college basketball game, I thought I'd take a look at this from a different perspective.

Now, here are the teams that will not win.

Ohio State
Reasons:
They have the best post player in college basketball, but only get him the ball by first throwing it off the rim and having him go get it, eschewing the traditional post entry pass ... Too many freshmen playing significant minutes ... You can come back from massive deficits against Xavier and Tennessee, but not the Hoya Destroyas ... Their coach spends an inordinate amount of time trying to destroy a colony of small blue beings.


UCLA
Reasons:
Ben Howland can outcoach Bill Self (Kansas, multiple big-game falures), but not Billy Donovan (Florida, national championship). ... Forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute is a prince in Cameroon, and could stand to be knocked down a peg. ... Forward Lorenzo Mata (below) was recently diagnosed with government-created killer nano robot infection.


Georgetown
Reasons:
People are now openly referring to head coach John Thompson III as "JT3." That sucks on so many levels. ... They run the Princeton offense, which only allows you to pull a couple upsets before you're overwhelmed by a bigger, faster team. Admittedly, it's a flaw in the system. ... Center Roy Hibbert is 7-foot-2, but he's got a pituitiary gland like a ticking time bomb.

This would leave Florida as your national champion. [/shrugs]

And after the Gators win the national championship and Joakim Noah pounds his chest for the last time on my television, prepare for the magic ...

1 comment:

Flash said...

If Florida wins the championship, I'll only feel satisfied if they show Noah at least 50% of the time during the "One Shining Moment" montage pounding his chest and dancing like a fairy. Either that, or if they show a prediction of how terrible his pro career will be...