The Sweet..........Sixteen....

What started off as a 64 (65 if you count the play-in game) team tournament.....

The NCAA weeded out half the field in round one. Round two saw 32 teams play. Half were losers..... If my math is correct, that leaves 16. Yes......sixteen teams remaining.

Ahhhhh........yes.......the Sweet Sixteen.

March Madness.........College Basketball!!!!!

So ........who's left?

Not........the beast of the east.....mighty Georgetown....... Not those crazies from Durham, North Carolina.......Duke. Kentucky is history.......As is Indiana........



Who's left? The darlings of the tournament thus far are the Davidson Wildcats.......a small school in Charlotte, NC featuring the son of an NBA All-star. Dell Curry was good......a pure shooter.....great scorer. But his son? Stephen Curry has taken this Davidson team to new heights. Curry scored 40 points in the first round game against Gonzaga . But the second round game put the 'cats up against the bigger stronger athletes of Georgetown. Georgetown flexed it's muscles in the first half ........holding Curry to just 5 points.

In the second half........the Georgetown squad.......extended the lead to as much as 17.......

Then .......a funny thing happened....... Stephen Curry got hot.........the team responded........Curry scored 25 of his 30points in that second half....... And Georgetown was history!

Such is this madness known as March.

The Sweet Sixteen?



Special thanks to Sportingnews.com........

1. Kansas. KU has every tool necessary for a national championship and appears intent on using them all.

2. UCLA. Kevin Love's turnaround jumpers to beat A&M showed scouts there's more to the game than jumping.

3. North Carolina. Volunteers, Cougars, Cardinals ... and yet they tells us the Tar Heels are the No. 1 overall seed.

4. Memphis. And now for the good news: Michigan State's Tom Izzo rarely employs zone defense

5. Texas. The nation's best back court gets to play in its backyard. That can't hurt.

6. Louisville. No one should be surprised Rick Pitino used that Big East Tournament implosion to re-energize his team.

7. Wisconsin. Had the Badgers gotten Georgetown's No. 2 seed, they'd have met Davidson earlier. This works out best.

8. Xavier. If the Musketeers begin to truly believe they're this good, they can be even better.

9. Tennessee. Some have won the NCAA championship without beating two consecutive teams as good as Louisville and North Carolina.

10. Michigan State. When the Spartans found themselves in Denver, they found themselves.

11. Stanford. If the only play necessary is entering to Brook Lopez on the right block, couldn't anyone have coached the Cardinal this far?

12. Washington State. Defense took Tony Bennett's father to a Final Four. Perhaps it could happen again.

13. Davidson. Stephen Curry, meet Wisconsin's Michael Flowers. You'll be seeing a great deal of him.

14. West Virginia. Give this team two more reserves, and there'd be few reservations about ranking them higher.

15. Villanova. If this team is near the bottom of the list, it's a really good Sweet 16.

16. Western Kentucky. Will the full court pressure bother UCLA's Bruins -- or shake them awake?

Sixteen......going on eight .......going on four......to two......to one....

Should be a heck of two weeks!