first time in the history of the NCAA National Basketball Tournament, all four No. 1-seeded team made it safely through to the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 brackets to the Final 4 UCLA, Memphis, Kansas and North Carolina. Three # 1 seeds have the final four three times in the history of the NCAA, advanced most recently in 1999, far.
West Regional Champion UCLA (35-3) meets South Regional Champion Memphis (37-1) and East Regional Champion North Carolina (36-2) faces off againstMidwest Regional champion Kansas (35-3) Saturday (4-5-08) with the winners at Monday night in the national championship game.
The entire Sweet 16 and Elite 8 action reminded me a lot in preparing for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. There is always a lot of celebration in front of the magnificent Thanksgiving meals together.
I could actually fallen asleep during nine flat tires and a slightly narrower Xavier-West Virginia game seemed close, that just because it ends in overtimewith Xavier mining West Virginia, 79-75.
The only two marquee games involved upstart Davidson shoot with "Please, the lights," Stephen Curry, who scored 33 points as the unsung move # 10 seed the hell out of # 3 seed Wisconsin's famous lock-down defense.
Davidson came within an inch or two of Kansas sent home, as were the # 1 seed Jayhawks to depend only able to save my life, barely progressing to the final four with a 59-57 victory in the stealth-shooter Stephen Currydrained another 3-pointer with 54 seconds left. It would be the last basket of the game, which proved to play the most exciting match of the dozen.
Curry, the only the fourth Players, the 30-point mark in his first three NCAA tournament games was hit, finished with 25 on 9-of-shot 25th He was picked as the Most Outstanding Player in the Midwest Regional.
As a sophomore, he nailed 160 3-pointers this season to set an NCAA Division I record. He will return for his junior DavidsonYear are not to choose wisely, without more seasoning Pro, Curry was a 89% free throw shooter this year and shot 44% from 3-point land.
Many fans had no idea it was a Davidson before the tournament. Davidson was not exactly with the national publicity and exposure before March Madness began overwhelmed. Davidson is so small, there are very few fans who could tell you, it is located in Davidson, North Carolina. The liberal arts school, which has only 1770 students could not even to fill ahardly part of the student section at UCLA.
The loss snapped Davidson's 25-game winning streak, the longest in the nation. The Wildcats were nothing short of amazing during their run, disrupt the likes of Gonzaga, Georgetown and Wisconsin before arriving in Kansas.
Davidson won the South Division of the Southern Conference with a perfect 20-0 record and finished the season with a 29-7 mark. The Wildcats are by Bob McKillop, who are in the spotlight after 19 earned coachDavidson seasons. Until this season, Davidson has not won NCAA tournament game in 39 years!
Davidson's powerful run to the size will be discussed in Davidson for years and corners in North Carolina, a state obsessed with basketball all years after basking in the immense success of Duke and North Carolina on.
2008 NCAA Tournament Results for Round 3 - The Sweet 16
Midwest Regional:
# 1 Kansas eliminated # 12 Villanova72-57
# 3 Wisconsin was upset by # 10 Davidson 73-56
West Regional:
UCLA eliminated # 1 # 12 Western Kentucky 88-78
# 3 # 7 Xavier eliminated West Virginia 79-75 in OT
East Regional:
# 1 North Carolina eliminated # 4 Washington State 68-47
# 3 Tennessee # 2 eliminated Louisville 79-60
South Regional:
# # 1 Memphis 5 Michigan State 92-74 Ret
# # 2 Texas 3 Stanford eliminated 82-62
2008 NCAA Tournament Results for Round 4 - The Elite8
Midwest Regional:
# 1 Kansas eliminated # 10 Davidson 59-57
West Regional:
# 1 # 3 UCLA eliminated Xavier 76-57
East Regional:
# 1 North Carolina eliminated # 3 Louisville 83-73
South Regional:
# 1 # 2 Memphis excreted Texas 85-67
2008 NCAA Tournament pairings for Round 5 - The Final 4
Saturday, April 5
# 1 West Regional Champion UCLA (35-3) against # 1 South Regional Champion Memphis (37-1)
# 1 East Regional ChampionNorth Carolina (36-2) against # 1 Midwest Champion Kansas (35-3)
Monday, April 7
The winners meet in the 2008 NCAA National Championship Game
Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley
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