Elite Eight Games Slip Away from Kansas, Oregon

The Final Four are set in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament after a thrilling weekend of Elite Eight games.  Saturday pitted Memphis with Ohio State, and UCLA against Kansas.
 

The Buckeyes and Bruins advanced to the Final Four first, and awaited the winners of the Sunday games, not knowing for whom they should root on to victory.  The “worst” team still alive at that point was #3 Oregon.  No matter who won on Sunday, the Buckeyes and Bruins were looking at a tough match up in the second-to-last round of the tourney. 
 

Memphis was looking like they would have a real shot at the Final Four, but Ohio State separated themselves from the Tigers in the last eight minutes.  Memphis went on two scoring droughts that lasted multiple minutes in the last half, allowing the Buckeyes to win one comfortably, for once.  
 

UCLA and Kansas battled in a very similar way. The Jayhawks kept the game very close in the first half, but Aaron Afflalo and the Bruins ran away in the second, sending the top seeded Kansas team back home after a great season.
 

There still might be time to get some NCAA Tournament tickets to the Final Four next weekend.  Check out StubHub.com if you want to find some great seats to what is sure to be a hard-fought Final Four.

Posted in General on March 26, 2007

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