Now I don't want to lie to you and say I'm a huge Davidson fan... because well I'm not. But like everyone else in the world not from Kansas I was cheering for Davidson to shock Kansas just like they did to Georgetown and Wisconsin. I was dissappointed when they came up two points shy in their elite effort. But when I heard the news that Stephen Curry was staying for his junior year at Davidson I really got excited. I am going out on a limb right now, April 1st  2008, and saying that Davidson will win the National Championship in 2009. I know that they are losing very, very good point guard Jason Richards but they still have Stephen Curry and as we saw thats almost all you need.  Next time around Davidson will have some greatly needed experience, but  no one is going to underestimate them like they did this time around.  There are two reasons for that. 1. They know they made it to the elite 8 this year. 2. They will be much higher then a 10 seed.

Has a "mid-major" ever won a National Championship?

Since I really started filling out my brackets for the big dance I have had a nack for picking the big upsets. In 2005 I had 14 Bucknell over 3 Kansas(it happened). In 2006 I had 14 Northwestern State over 3 Iowa(it happened). Last year no team 12 or higher won a game but I correctley picked 11 VCU over 6 Duke and 11 Winthrop over 6 Notre Dame( I also had two near misses with 15 TAMU-CC over 2 Wisconsin and 13 Davidson over 4 Indiana). Now you probably just think I fill out a bracket with a ton of upsets and then say after I got all the big upsets right, but I don't. I just happen to know who will be upset.

2008 Predictions

Biggest Upset- 14 Cal State Fullerton over 3 Wisconsin

Team People Think Might Upset But Won't- 12 George Mason

Near Upsets- 16 Portland State over 1 Kansas and 16 Texas-Arlington over 1 Memphis

Teams Seeded 10 Or Higher That Will Go Deep- 10 Davidson(Sweet 16), 10 South Alabama (Sweet 16), 11 Baylor (Sweet 16), 11 Kansas State(Elite Eight)

Final Four- 1 UNC, 1 Kansas, 2 Texas, 4 UCONN

National Championship- North Carolina vs Texas

Champion-North Carolina

Texas Tech and Oklahoma have in common the fact that they both lost to teams from the Southland Conference. Now your probably saying those games were just flukes and that the SLC is a joke. Lets look at the past. 2006, Northwestern State beats Iowa in the first round of the NCAA tourny. A 14 over 3 upset. 2007 TAMU-CC almost upsets Wisconsin. This season(2007-2008) Sam Houston St. beat Texas Tech and is currentley 8-0 with wins over teams from more respected conference, like at Saint Louis from the A-10. Texas-Arlington is 8-0 with a key win at a solid Witchita St. team. Stephen F. Austin 7-1 with a victory at Oklahoma. The conference has a 59-38 record as of December 10th. Look I'm not saying that this is like the Big 12 or ACC but it should get a little respect for the quality of teams they put out on the floor. It would be nice to see maybe 2 or 3 teams from this conference go to the NCAA tournament. And maybe if only one goes don't make them a 15 or 16 seed and make them have to have to play a dominant team in the first round. This in my opinion is one of the better mid-major conference but yet they never get multiple teams in March Madness like the A-10 or Missouri Valley Conference.

Let me know what you think.