BY RODERICK BOONE
Phew. Just got finished breaking down the South Regional for tomorrow's paper and I can't tell you how fun it was to quickly look at the region and offer my take. This is one of the best times of year when everybody suddenly becomes an expert, yet some person who's never watched a college basketball game all season winds up winning the office pool.
Anyway, we're about to get this thing started. The teams are ready to be loaded into the blocks and get going.
Tell you what, that East Region is a beast with North Carolina, Notre Dame, George Mason, Louisville, Butler, and Tennessee. Oklahoma and Winthrop are in that region too. If North Carolina gets out of that one, which is what I predicted, the Tarheels would have earned that baby.
I'm lucky enough to be heading down to Raleigh later this week for the first and second rounds at the RBC Center and I was looking forward to it even before the brackets were released. But after watching the matchups get unveiled, I was pleasantly thrilled to find out who's playing who. And I've got to say that site has to be one of the best. Just look at the matchups: Carolina has a home game against the "play-in" winner and Eric Gordon and Indiana meet up with Arkansas. Gonzaga also takes on Davidson not far from Davidson's campus, and Roy Hibbert and Georgetown matchup up with UMBC. How about that lineup?
What's the toughest region in your mind and what's the site you'd pay good money to go to so you could watch the action in person?
Comments (1)
you're so wrong, it hurts to read. the East is a walk-thru for UNC until they get to Tennessee. Roy Williams and the Tar Heels are partying on Tobacco Road, their bracket is that easy.