Time To Go Dancing

All precincts are reporting in and four teams from the Triangle are heading to the Big Dance which starts Tuesday when the last team to slip in is the Wolfpack of NC State will play in one of the two play in games Tuesday night against Xavier a Cincinnati base school playing them in Dayton will almost be a home game for Xavier.  But who cares if you are the last team in then you have to expect the road to Dallas will be extremely hard to do.

North Carolina State is hosting rounds two and three this weekend and I would suspect between Duke and Virginia seats will be hard to find.  Duke will play Mercer in Raleigh while the ACC champs Virginia earned a number one seed having  won both the regular season and tournament are 18-2 in the ACC this season.

North Carolina will begin the road to the Texas Final four playing game one in San Antonio and they will play the Frairs of Providence.  The final triangle team playing this week is North Carolina Central who will be making their first ever appearance in the Big Dance.  They do however get a toughie as they draw Iowa State who is a number three seed.

Syracuse who has been in free fall the last month still lands a number three seed and plays in Buffalo so like Duke playing in Raleigh Buffalo will be a home weekend for the Cuse.  The Final ACC team in is Pittsburgh.  They are seeded ninth and will begin against Colorado.

Everyone has said that this was a down year for the ACC but they get six teams in.  Virginia is the team I think could go the furthest but I have not picked my bracket yet and who everyone plays in say round three who knows because there is no team that you can say this is the one. I have not heard as much flack over State getting in as I expected.

I know Wichita State  gets a number one see but 22 of their wins were against teams RPI of 100 or more.  They won only three games against the top 50 and the Wolfpack won three.  I don't understand why a team you play in December what they do the rest of the season should go on you RPI.  The only time the team you play should be judged is where they are when you play them.  Let's say a team is 11-0 ranked number  ten an a player gets hurt five games after you play them and they don't win another game but that is counted as part of the RPI.

Now that all the candidates for office have filed and paid their registration let the games begin.  Let's go Triangle.