Just when you thought that this, of all years, would be the year when you finally won the annual office pool , you find your NCAA bracket busted by the likes of San Diego, Siena, and Western Kentucky.
Why not include Davidson in that mix, you ask? Because they're not the ones wearing glass slippers, as their 10-seed status would suggest. Check out their 2007-2008 non-conference schedule, and you'll observe that the Wildcats have been preparing all season for a moment like last night, when Stephen Curry's 33 points (103 overall in three games, a scoring clip only met by Loyola-Marymount's Bo Kimble) uprooted a tough Wisconsin Badger squad.
So what if the Wildcats lost to North Carolina, Duke, and UCLA by a combined 22 points in the regular season? Davidson is a game away (beware, Kansas Jayhawks fans: coach Bill Self has never led a team to the Final Four) from playing under the San Antonio spotlight, thanks in part to Dell Curry's astoundingly talented son Stephen. In a tournament laden with stories about phenomenal freshman (Kevin Love, Derrick Rose, Eric Gordon, Michael Beasley, Kyle Singler, etc.), Curry has dazzled even Lebron James, whose jaw dropped on several occassions throughout the course of last night's Midwest regional final, what, with Curry's six baskets from downtown and one awe-inspiring reverse lay-up to lead his team to a 73 - 56 victory. Whether or not they cut down the nets on April 7th, Stephen Curry and the Davidson Wildcats are THE story of the 2008 NCAA Tournament.
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