Sunday, April 6, 2014

NCAA FINAL FOUR (FINAL) PREDICTION

And then there were two. The clock is ticking until tip off Monday night where the KENTUCKY WILDCATS and the UCONN HUSKIES will battle to determine who wins the crown. These two schools are all two familiar with being in this position. As both teams would meet again in the final four final. Something like 2011 in Houston, Texas where the Huskies would take the win over the Wildcats in the title game. Their back in Texas just this time North Texas but same goal. A National Championship. The wildcats are coming into this meeting Monday with a impressive resume so far in the tournament taking out the number one seed in their region, number four seed in their region and number one over all rival, and the number two seed in their region. Wichita State, Louisville, and Michigan were highly regarded teams to make the final four at the beginning of the tournament but a team such as the wildcats came completely from left field . The wildcats start 5 freshman and were the number eight seed overall in their region. Surprising much? This doesn't come as a surprise that they were necessarily in the tournament because they were a preseason number one team in the country. Unlike the wildcats the huskies were not a preseason top team number one. They weren't even looked upon as making the tournament at the beginning of the season because of their performance last year and them failing to make the tournament. Since last season the huskies have put UCONN back on the map for mens basketball. Similar to the wildcats, coming into the tournament the huskies were flying under everyone's radar until recently. When they beat Michigan State, who was a high regarded favorite to win the entire tournament, even though they weren't the over all number one seed. The huskies continued to build their resume, as they would go on to beat the over all number one seed of the tournament, Florida by 10 points Saturday. I believe based on both of these teams resumes this is a hard decision to make. If UCONN can gain a big enough lead on the wildcats early and with stand the lead to the very end of the game they have a chance to win. If not then the wildcats will win. You can't bet against Kentucky in a close game because of what they can create on offence, not discrediting UCONN but they would have to play the game of their lives and withstand it all 40 minutes. It will be which team out scores the other and has a big enough lead within the last minutes of the game. I believe because of the result of the final four game of 2011, although this is a different Kentucky roster from 2011, coach Caliper knows this situation and feeling all to well and won't let the game slip away. I believe this year is Kentucky's year and I believe they will win this game.

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