62 games down, one to go

I'm loooking forward to Monday night's national championship game more than any other NCAA title game in recent memory. There are a lot of sentimental reasons to like both teams. For Kansas, you've gotta love Roy Williams and the fact that he spurned the Carolina job 3 years ago to stay and make his own mark in Lawrence. Collison and Hinrich are also easy to root for as two seniors leading their team after coming up short in the Final Four last year.

For the Orangemen, there's the fact that Syracuse is the best college basketball program that's never won a title. It'd be nice to give their fans a win, especially after having lost two previous title games. Then there the fact that Jim Boeheim has built a great program at his alma mater over the past two decades, has yet he never gets mentioned in the same breath with Coach K, Lute Olsen and Bob Knight.

But in the end I'll be rooting for Kansas, just 'cause I've liked them ever since the days of Jacque Vaughn and Paul Pierce. Here's hoping that it'll be a fast-paced, well-played, entertaining game that makes for a fitting end to another terrific college basketball season.