March Madness: The Tournament Approaches...Are You Ready?

This college basketball season has been a year about upsets. Seemingly every week a top dog team went down. The No. 1 team lost about nine times and teams who were preseason favorites are not even in the top 25.

Following trend has been the conference tournaments three—I repeat, three—of the top 25 teams won their conference tournament and the ACC champion today has the chance to be just the fourth.

Many of the games have been extremely exciting, even games for the ages.

The Syracuse-UConn six-overtime game will presumably be considered one of the best Big East games in the history of the league.

This is just not the year for the "bubble" teams with all of these conference upsets and previously NIT teams getting automatic bids.

We might end up seeing a tournament without the Stephen Curry led Davidson Wildcats, The back to back champs from two years ago Florida or even Kentucky for the first time in 17 years.

It has been a pleasure watching the great individual and team performances in this month alone. There seems to always be a player that comes from nowhere to capture the attention of the nation and maybe even boost his draft stock a bit.

It will be interesting to see who that player is this year and how they rise to the occasion.

Every year people look for the next George Mason. They look for that little school from a little conference that can stick with the big boys.

The way things are shacking up this maybe as good a year as any to find that team but of course if that becomes the expectation we may end up with a final four full of No. 1 seeds just for disappointments sake.

Today is Selection Sunday. This is the moment of truth for many teams and coaches who will learn their fate at about six this afternoon.

If this year’s tournament has anywhere near the excitement of the regular season and the Conference tournaments we will be in for a treat.