is anybody surprised?

My TV has seen a bunch of crazy thing grace it's screen since my Mom has been in town. I wasn't in some mad rush to watching tonight's NCAA National Championship game tonight but, because I have a disease, I was gonna watch a little.

Well I had to wait. I had to wait because Mom was watching Dancing with the Stars. That is definitely the first time I've had to watch that show. It was everything I expected and then some. The only thing I took away from tonight's episode is that Lil' Kim looks different from what I had remembered her to look like. Oh well.

Oh right there is a game on right now. Can I say something really quick before me we move on to the garbage on the court? I love being able to blog from the couch. I might just have to break down and get a laptop.

Yeah so UNC is blowing out MSU. Big surprise. I didn't watch much of MSU's last two games, but they were somehow able to navigate their way through Louisville and Connecticut. It's doubtful that either of those teams would have beaten UNC, but it's very likely that they would have at least shown up to compete. What I am watching right now is down right embarrassing. It would have been really nice to see Tyler go out without a championship, but it's not looking good for me on that one.

Roy Williams has always been known, mostly from his days at Kansas, as great recruiter who couldn't win the big games. Well after tonight he will have tied Dean Smith with two National Championships. Hard to believe right? What does that say about Dean? All those years with all of those great players and he only got two. Just something to think about.

Coming into this season there was talk of UNC going undefeated. I'll be honest, I was worried about it. There was no denying that they were the odds on favorites but could they really be the first team since Bobby Knight's 1976 Indiana squad to win every single contest? Luckily the answer to that question is "No".

The one thing I'm envious about with concerns to UNC is their ability to get their good to great players to stay in school. I mean that's the key in College Basketball. Can you get your guys to stick around long enough to declare a major. I don't know what they are doing down there but it's working. I would wish them some bad luck with guys leaving but I'm worried about bad karma that might work it's way back to "you know who" at Georgetown.

For what it's worth, I rooted for UNC one time this year - in their game at Maryland. They failed me. That loss essentially put Maryland into the Tournament. What a nightmare. How they lost that game will never be known by me.

Thanks for nothing losers.

So to review there are two good things about tonight: 1) We aren't watching an undefeated team win the National Title and 2) This is the last time I have to listen to the commentators slurp Tyler like he's Tim Tebow or something. We still have one more season of that guy.

I know it's not a popular opinion but I miss Billy Packer. Clark Kellogg isn't doing it for me. They should have gone with Gus Johnson or Billy Rafftery as the lead color guy. I'm not sure how they came to the decision to promote Clark, but I feel it was a poor one.