Countdown To The Selection Show

There is so much to comment on before the brackets come out. I don't think I'm going to be able to cover everything I'd like, but I at least want to hit on a few things and give some hints as to what's coming in the very near future of this blog. (13 hours until the bracket is announced)

• Can enough even begin to be said about what the University of Georgia did on Saturday? Because of the intense storms in and around Atlanta, Georgia had to play TWO SEC Tournament games in a matter of 12 hours...and won them both!!! Both wins were big upsets and the first game went to overtime. They will now play in the Tournament final later today as the #e6 seed, with a shot to go to the NCAA Tournament. Absolutely crazy. I'm not eloquent enough to properly put this in perspective. Just chew on those facts for awhile and I'll try to find a link to an article that gives this story justice.
• If anyone wants to debate the merit/importance of the play-in game on Tuesday, I'd have some fun with that. Maybe I'll devote an entire 1,500 word column on that game alone. We'll see. It's probably going to be Mississippi Valley State against some other unfortunate team fighting it out for the right to play UNC in the first round.
• Please don't think that I'm forgetting that Pitt won the Big East Tournament last night. That spectacular story will be given the proper exposure as soon as I'm capable of doing just that. What a win. Go Panthers! Joe Lunardi (on ESPN's bracketology page) currently has Pitt as a #3 seed!
• I'll be keeping track of all the NCAA pools that I enter. This will take a day or two for me to sort out, but I'll come up with a system to stay on top of it. I may comment on other people's brackets in the pools I'm involved with, but I need to keep things manageable also. We'll see what I can get away with and what's fun.
• With the comments and help of Matt and Phil, I'd like to devote a column to the best (and possibly worst) dressed coaches in college basketball. If Annie or anyone else has anything to say about that, please feel free to share your thoughts in any comment section. Continute referring to the post that started this discussion to keep up on the debate.
• Bill Raftery will have his own column by the time the games tip-off on Thursday, I promise.
• I'm working on a way-too-ambitions column entitled, "The Rushmore Quote Guide To The 2008 NCAA Tournament", that I only hope and pray will be finished in time for the games on Thursday.
• Please read this story about Blake Hoffarber, who made the unreal shot that won the game for Minnesota over Indiana on Friday (You NEED to watch the video on the page too). Laettner-esque is correct. What he did three years ago in high school is even more sick. Great story. His shot is the reason I ran the above photo.