Does anybody care about last night?
Kansas. Memphis. Does anyone actually care about these two teams? Obviously, we all wanted to see Goliaths Carolina and UCLA go at it for the NCAA Championship. But that didn’t happen. OK fine. I’ll settle for a UNC - Memphis matchup. I mean, they’ve been duking it out all year long for the #1 spot, except for the 1.78 days when Tennessee took over. But then Kansas upset UNC (and I can say upset because UNC was the #1 overall). And then I stopped caring.
Now now. Anyone who has even a budding interest in college hoops was watching last night’s game, just because “it’s the best night in college basketball.” I put that in quotes because I heard it on TV once and disagreed wholeheartedly. A Kansas-Memphis matchup I don’t think compares to a UNC-Duke matchup. But I digress. Namely because I think the best nights of college basketball are Rounds 1 and 2 of the tournament - nothing compares to the neverending supply of quality hoops that weekend. OK seriously. I digress.
So last night, despite my intentions to stay in the library and get some work done, I ended up going home and watching the game while doing my taxes. So you know that I was already in a bad mood. But while watching the game, I thought, “Wow. I really just don’t care who wins.” Did anyone else feel this way?
OK fine, it might just be me. In any event, I did end up watching last night’s game and I suppose it was worth it. I was rooting for Memphis, which of course means that Rock Chalk Jayhawks were destined to win. And so they did. Stupid Memphis and their stupid freethrows. Going into the tournament, they were sitting at #320 out of 328 Div I schools in freethrow shots, with 61.3%. Over the last three games going into the championship game, they were shooting 20-23 (80.9%). Wow! What improvement! What’s that? Only two people took shots during those three games? And it was their guards Derrick Rose and Chris Douglas-Roberts? Oh. Never mind then. Stupid Memphis.
But ultimately it was a game worth watching. Any time a championship game goes into overtime, it’s worth everyone’s time. More importantly, I had forgotten about CBS’s 2008 One Shining Moment montage at the end! Easily one of my favorite parts of the tournament, haha. Here it is.