Selection Sunday Thoughts

As I sit in my living room, watching Georgia try to pull off what might be the most improbable conference tournament run in college basketball history, I am getting excited for the release of the bracket, which comes out within the next hour. If Georgia wins the SEC Championship Game against a good Arkansas team, they will burst the bubble of some team sitting at home right now that is watching and hoping for a Georgia loss that would knock the Bulldogs out of postseason contention. Players at Massachusetts, Virginia Tech, Oregon and Arizona are breathing heavy as Dennis Felton's team clings to a 58-53 lead with under two minutes to play. My tournament breakdown and predictions will be out this week but right now I want to predict the Number One and Two seeds: One: North Carolina, Memphis, UCLA and Kansas Two: Texas, Duke, Tennessee and Wisconsin Quick score update before some other ramblings, Georgia leads 61-53 with 1:17 to play... If I'm John Henry, Theo Epstein or Terry Francona, I would find any excuse possible to keep Daisuke Matsuzaka in Florida training alongside Josh Beckett. I appreciate what MLB is trying to do in playing actual games in Japan but I don't want my top two starting pitchers spending 40-plus hours on an airplane in order to play a few games in Tokyo... I love what Tracy McGrady and the Rockets are doing in their current 21 game winning streak but in the Western Conference, they have almost NO chance of advancing as far as the Conference Finals... 62-57 Georgia with 34.9 seconds on the clock, Georgia heading to the foul line... Now that Tim Welsh has been fired at Providence, there are five names that would excite me if I were a Friar fan: Anthony Grant from Virginia Commonwealth, Hall of Famer Bobby Knight, PC grad and George Mason coach Jim Larranaga, former BC coach Jim O'Brien and Maryland coach Gary Williams (if the Terps make a change)... Georgia, winners of three games in 28 hours, is in the NCAA Tournament. 66-57 final score...