With the NCAA Championship game ending on Monday, it’s now time to come up with the all-tournament team. There are probably hundreds of such lists already out there, so we at Hoya Hoops decided to do it a little differently. We are picking the people who made the tournament especially memorable for us, but not due to their play. Due to their names. So, here are our All-Tournament names:
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Well, the 2008 NCAA Tournament is finally over. It didn’t end the way that many Georgetown fans would have liked, but as it is in sports, there’s always next year. In the championship game, some poor free throw shooting from Memphis set the stage for Mario Chalmers’ game-tying, overtime-forcing three pointer, which made highlight reels around the country. So now that the tournament is done with, we decided to pose this question:

What was your favorite moment from this year’s NCAA Tournament?

We’d probably go with West Virginia beating Duke. The Hoyas didn’t get to play the Blue Devils this year, but it was nice to have another Big East team take them down on Georgetown’s home court.

What do you think?

20 years after Danny Manning led the Kansas Jayhawks to a National Championship, the Jayhawks are once again the best college basketball team in the land. Kansas defeated Memphis 75-68 in overtime to win the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship. Memphis had one foot in the winner’s circle as they used a 20-8 run late in regulation to extend to their largest lead of nine with 2:12 remaining. But Kansas Head Coach Bill Self decided to force the Tigers to win the game at the free throw line. Memphis had struggled shooting free throws all season long, and the championship game was no exception. Their failure to make foul shots with the season on the line left the door open for the Jayhawks. Mario Chalmers completed the exciting comeback with a contested three-pointer that tied the score with 2.1 seconds to play in regulation. The half-court shot from Memphis at the buzzer bounced off the upper part of the backboard.
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The Final Four is upon us once again. Personally, it seems like much longer than just one year ago that the Hoyas were preparing to take on Ohio State in the 2007 Final Four. A lot has changed in that one year, both nationally and on the hilltop. Throughout this season in college basketball, I felt like there were three teams that were the top teams in the country - Memphis, Kansas, and UCLA. There were a handful of teams that were just slightly below that upper echelon - North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Georgetown, and Louisville among a few others. I felt that even as a #2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the Hoyas would have had to have a lot of things go their way to win the National Championship. As it was, very little did go their way.
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For the first time since the expansion of the field to 64 teams in 1985, all four #1 seeds advanced to the Final Four. This may come as a surprise. How could it take 24 years for the best four teams to all make it to the semifinals? Well, if we take a closer look at the mathematics behind it, it’s not that strange.
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CBS hails itself as “America’s Most Watched Network,” and part of that is no doubt due to the huge ratings they get from the second week in March until the first weekend in April. CBS has had the rights to the NCAA Tournament for as long as I can remember. And, for as long as I can remember, the coverage of the tournament has been atrocious. This year is no exception.
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