The Sports Watercooler

We spend months looking forward to the tournament. Looking forward to the anything can happen mentality, the rooting interest in each game, the chance for a small school and unknown players to become household names.

Which is why I think this year is the Worst NCAA Tournament ever. There has been only a handful of upsets (Western Kentucky, Siena, Villanova, San Diego, and the obvious Davidson), there has only been a couple of games that went down to the wire, and to top it off, the Final Four has all number one seeds. Not even the fact that this has never happened in history can help breath life into this tournament.

And although it may be a testament to the selection committee that their 4 number 1 seeds have thus proven to be the four best teams, its is boring from a fan's perspective.

There are still some plot lines for an average fan to attach themselves too. UCLA's super impressive third straight visit to the Final Four, Kansas finally killing the monkey on it and Bill Self's back, Memphis proving that they do belong in the upper echelon of college basketball, and North Carolina dominating every team they have seen thus far.

But compared to tournaments in the past, there hasn't been very much. I feel like most games were decided by 10+ points. And to top it all off, a bracket that had zero upsets in it would be in the 96th percentile of all people picking on ESPN.com. Davidson, we hardly knew thee.

The upside here is that all 3 remaining games have to be close and good, right? We are finally down to 4 number 1 seeds, who are pretty equal across the board. Let's hope so. Because we need some close games going down to the wire to inject some energy into this thing. As it stands, its been so boring, I actually scheduled a 6:30 dinner reservation for Saturday without even realizing it was the Final Four. Prove me wrong Number 1 seeds.