Wrapping up the NCAA

It's kind of ironic that the entire Final Four experience was more or less a tremendous let down, given that our total lack of upsets throughout the early stages of the tournament supposedly lay the groundwork for an absolutely sublime level of basketball that was to follow this past weekend. But that only really happened to a small degree - the first half of Georgetown/OSU and Greg Oden's performance last night.

Seriously, if you're (or I'm) going to be a sanctimonious asshole and drop "sublime" in a college basketball column (Note: I'm aware I already have) then I think it might be only acceptable to use it when describing the way Greg Oden floored all over the court on offense, defense and general bad-assness. Is it his fault that the rest of the Buckeyes more or less stunk up the gym? Nah. In fact, I don't think they even played that bad, but more likely it was the immense level of talent, drive and desire that consumed the entire Florida team throughout the final month of the college basketball season.

They didn't even really ever come close to losing. Not once. SEC Tourney and NCAA Tourney - they plowed through both of them like Pete North at Porn Film Festival. And even though I hate to follow up on a point that has ever been made by the dreaded duo of Jim Nance and Billy Packer, but it really does say something that all five of the starters for Florida average over 10 points a game but not over 15; they also reached 1,000 career points within two weeks of one another. Normally, if a team's full five starters averages double digits, it's because they play in a shoddy conference or run an offense that requires them all to just jack threes. Florida, obviously, has five guys who could be number one or two options on any team in America, and they just enjoy playing with each other. Hence, a championship run that was nothing short of dominant.