Florida, Georgetown Advance to Final Four

Florida beat Oregon and Georgetown beat North Carolina in the Sunday games of the Elite Eight of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.  The Gators and Hoyas will advance to play UCLA and Ohio State, respectively, in the final Four next weekend. 
 
Florida dropped Oregon in the second half of their game on Saturday.  The Ducks kept things interesting throughout the game, but couldn’t close on the Gators in the second half of play when Florida took an 8 point lead with about 10 minutes remaining.
 

Georgetown overcame a 10 point deficit in the closing minutes of regulation against UNC.  Once in overtime, the Tar Heels went cold, scoring their first field goal with just over seven seconds remaining to play.  The Hoyas and 7’2’’ center Roy Hibbert will face Ohio State and their 7’ center Greg Oden.
 

The games are all set now for a Final Four that features three No. 1 seeds and a No. 2.  If you were part of the selection committee, bravo.  If you like picking underdogs in your office bracket pool, you might as well start complaining about the boringness of a tourney with no Cinderella plotline and predictable, lack-luster games.
 

The Final Four is one of the strongest in the past decade, so if you would like to see it live next weekend, you ought to hurry in getting your NCAA Tournament tickets at StubHub.com before they’re snagged by other hoops fans.       


 

Posted in General on March 26, 2007

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