With All Due Respect

So, after paying my respects to an extremely talented VCU team in last weeks post, they failed to continue their cinderella run, in favor of Butler. And this week, I will apologize again, this time to the only other team playing tonight, the Connecticut Huskies. Earlier in the season, I marveled critically over Connecticut's inhuman jump in national rankings, from unranked to 7. This was just after their phenomenal win in the Maui Invitational, and the subsequent national exposure of Kemba Walker.

Fastforward to now, and Walker has exceeded expectations, averaging well over 20 points per game and leading Connecticut to a 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. And other than freshman sensation Jeremy Lamb, the Huskies are very thin, yet that hasn't stopped them from winning a miraculous 12 tournament games this year.

And tonight, the Huskies hope to close the season on the best possible note, with a National Championship. They'll face a foe familiar to the championship in Butler, a team who is repeating in the game. But Butler too is scarce of talent, with Shelden Mack and Matt Howard being responsible for the majority of the scoring.

Hopefully my apology to Kemba and his Huskies will produce some good results tonight, but one thing is for sure, it will be a good game, it always is. So with less than one hour till tip off, I'd be sure not to miss a moment.

And enjoy tonight, because from now until the NFL draft, and basically from then on out, sports in this country condense to baseball and NBA playoffs until the fall, when football may not even occur.

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