A Two Team Tournament

It started out.......




with 64 teams.......beginning on a Thursday back in March. Today, after 72 games... 62 teams eliminated.... The 2008 NCAA Mens Basketball tournament has come down to the final 2. The game will be broadcast by CBS from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Game time is a rather latish 9:21 p.m. EDT. The Memphis Tigers bring their NCAA record setting 38 wins versus only 1 loss against the Kansas Jay hawks with an impressive 36-3 record of their own.

Memphis lost their only game of the season on February 23 against state rival and then 2nd ranked Tennessee. A see-saw game so the Vols win 66-62.

Kansas lost their three games.....all on the road. At Kansas State (75-84), at Texas (69-72), and at Oklahoma State (60-61)

Both teams have been impressive in the tournament. Both have speed and quickness.....height and size......Both schools are well coached.

But after tonight.....only one will be the winner.

64......to 32........to 16......to 8.....to 4......to 2..........

And then .......to only ......1!

Memphis.....

Showdown in The River City

Must See.....TV.....

Normally, we don't get so excited about a college basketball game played in February. We wait until the madness known as March is upon us.

However, come Saturday night at 9 pm, on ESPN, in the River City, on the banks of the great Mississippi, a very meaningful basketball game will be played.

The #1 ranked Memphis University Tigers are hosting the 2nd ranked Tennessee Volunteers. And we're talking men's basketball....not the 7 time champion Tennessee Lady Vols. Memphis is undefeated (26-0) and looking to go into the NCAA tournament with a perfect record. The 1991 UNLV team, which lost to Duke in the semifinals, was the last team to go into the NCAA tournament undefeated. Tennessee is 24-2 and the pride of a weak Southeastern Conference, losing at Texas and at Kentucky.

The Tigers' regular-season streak is the longest since Indiana's 57 in a row from the 1974-75 season into the 1976-77 season, a winning binge that included the last undefeated season by a men's team, the 32-0 Hoosiers of 1975-76.

Tickets are out of control.

Premium seats are going for upwards of $1,000 apiece. Seats way up high are being sold for more than $400.

That’s more than Final Four seats.

Hype it up........and enjoy the game.