Thursday, March 8, 2007

The next George Mason?


Pundits across the land have scoured the college basketball landscape looking for the next George Mason. The bracket buster. The Cinderella. The team we'll all be talking about this March around the water cooler.
WUWS is here to tell you to stop the search. We've found them.

They've got everything we look for in a Cinderella. They've got great guard play. They have a team laden with upperclassmen. They have a coach who has been there before. This year's Cinderella team is Florida. Yes, Florida. Florida will make a dramatic run through the tournament and stun the masses.

No, you say. They lost three games in a row just last week. No team has won two years in a row in 15 years. You may even argue that their star player is just too ugly for CBS to allow it to win 6 games in a row. But you would be wrong.

Florida has, like, 9 players that are sure-fire first-round draft picks as soon as they deign to declare for the draft. At least three of the players have fathers that were African tennis stars. Over the last year, that has a ridiculously strong correlation with NCAA postseason success.

So after looking at the evidence, it is clear Florida will be this year's Cinderella team. But how far will their run go? A championship? Or will their run be stopped by prohibitive favorite Winthrop? Only time will tell....

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