Final Four tips tonight.

Leading off

This is as good a coaching Final Four as there's been in recent years. Two Hall of Fame coaches in Jim Calhoun and Roy Williams. Tom Izzo will likely be joining them there eventually and Jay Wright would certainly take a big step toward Springfield if the Wildcats win. If everything else is equal, I like Izzo to outcoach anybody in the tournament including any of these guy, but I don't think he has the talent UConn and North Carolina do. But can he create a game plan to counteract the talent gap? I'm anxious to see.

What to look forward to today

Kalin Lucas vs. A.J. Price.

Fearless Prediction of the day (5-2 at these so far)

Big East will put just one team in the final.

Questions I don't know the answer to:

Can Villanova hang with North Carolina?

Obama  38        vs.       Vautour 40

  vs.

 The full Presidential bracket is here. He're mine.

Today's picks:

Me: I'm out of winners.

Obama:He needs a Carolina win to tie me in total wins. But I'd declare him the winner for picking the champion correctly if Carolina wins it all.

Links:

Wetzel on the silly attention given to Ty Lawson playing craps.

Ty Lawson and Scottie Reynolds have a friendly rivalry.

These are usually fun.

Hasheem Thabeet has had a long journey to the Final Four.

Buzzer beaters:

I'd like to thank all the readers who emailed me to tell they have
Villanova in the Final Four. That's an impressive read of the bracket
by you before it started.

...10 weeks til I'm married...