The eve of the real NBA season

The Mavericks are one win or one Phoenix loss away from locking up home court throughout the playoffs. The Mavs seem bored at this point and are taking turns at sitting out games to rest up for the postseason. The Spurs on the other hand are playing great basketball right now and look poised to make an impressive showing this Spring. I think the final four of the NBA playoffs will be Dallas and San Antonio in the West and Detroit and Miami in the East. I also believe that it will be a coin toss to see who goes to the Finals in both series. The Finals will be heavily contested but I like the winner of the Dallas San Antonio series to be hoisting the trophy at seasons end.

Gators Dominate

The Florida Gators easily handled the Ohio State Buckeyes beating them 84-75 to win their second straight state championship. Greg Oden dominated in the paint for the Buckeyes on both offense and defense, but Florida scored 32 of their first 40 points from the perimeter cancelling out the super freshman's impact.
The fallout from the game is that four of The Gators impact players are declaring early for the draft. Cory Brewer, Al Horfors, Joikem Noah, and Taurean Green are all heading for the NBA early and figure to be drafted. All except Green figure to be picked in the top 10.
The Buckeye nation is still holding their collective breath on Oden's decision to either stay or head for the NBA. My money is that he'll stay for one more year.

Revenge!

It's time for the Buckeye nation to get their shots in, its time for revenge. The Ohio State Buckeyes have an opprtunity to avenge the football's team humiliating defeat to the Florida Gators in the National Championship, and to avenge a blowout loss in Gainsville earlier this year. Superfrosh Greg Oden was still ailing from a right wrist injury and the young OSU club (three freshman starters) was still gelling at that point. They are a different team and this is a different venue.
That being said, I still like Florida to repeat. They are just too deep and too talented. They have experience, confidence, and superior talent. The only team that can even compare with the Gators level of talent is the Buckeyes who have a ligitament shot to upset Florida.
Dont forget that OSU has won 22 straight games and have won in a variety of ways.
Either way it should be a good game. Oh by the way, I chose both of these teams to make it to the championship, with OSU beating the Gators and to cut the nets down. We'll see, it all goes down in less than an hour.