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We want a piece of Kansas! Our boys want a piece of Kansas in the worst way. As soon as the game was over, when asked who they wanted to play, there was no doubt in their minds who they wanted to play...KANSAS!
North Carolina matches up against Kansas tomorrow afternoon and our boys are rooting for Kansas because we want REVENGE! Would Kansas have beaten us earlier in the year without Sullinger? I don't think so, and neither does the team.
They want another shot at Kansas to prove who is the better team between the two.

In the other Quarter Final, we should be rooting for Kentucky over Baylor for the same reason. We want them in there for Revenge as well. We want their number. We still haven't forgotten who knocked us out last year. We took them all the way to the buzzer, not even playing our best game, when Buford put one up that didn't go down, but they put one up that did go down to beat us by 2. We are so much deeper this year, and our Chemistry is so much tighter, that I believe our destiny is there and we can go much farther.Boeheim may have been trying to be diplomatic when saying OSU is the best team in the Country, but ifr Sullinger would have played the whole game, and if there were "decent" referees on the floor, Syracuse could have been BLOWN out by 25 points today.

Sullinger was named the MVP of the Eastern region of the Tournament, but was not one of the four finalists of the Naismith award. But yet Clown Boy Desmond Howard from Michigan State is, which sickens me to no end. He is such a black eye for College Basketball, and certainly not a good image for young kids. To watch him close, all he does is talk smack. Sullinger will prove he is a better player by going higher in the draft next year. His projections right now, of course, are in the top ten; and I can't believe Howard is going above him.

Assuming Sullinger and the boys can get by Kansas and get their much deserved Revenge in the Semifinal, then they are in the Final game for the first time since 2007's game with Oden and Conley. That matchup will be against the winner of Kentucky and Louisville. Now again, we can root for an opponent KENTUCKY! Alah, Revenge again.

So if we could root for Kansas to beat North Carolina, and then for Kentucky to beat Baylor and then Louisville in the other Semifinal; we can avenge our loss earlier this year to Kansas, and our loss last year to Kentucky that took us out of the Tourney. I believe Kentucky is the best team in the Country, and I want our boys to beat the best to win the National Championship, so that the rest of the Country has no excuses towards THE Ohio State University when we win the Basketball National Championship for the first time in 52 years, and a pre empt to an undefeated season in Football for Urban, an AP National Championship next year, only to be followed by a unanimous National Championship the following year.

I want to STICK IT UP THE ASS OF ALL THE MEDIA AND FANS AROUND THE COUNTRY WHO HATE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY> GO BUCKS!

Wouldn't it be nice if Willy Buford went down to the Super Dome and fell in love with those rims? Could score big in the Final Four and be the MVP of the Final Four since he is the only SENIOR after all? Come on Willy, we haven't given up on you yet, but DAMN!

FYI I was personally down there 30 years ago for a Business Convention.They gave us tickets for the1982 Final Four in New Orleans. That was the year the North Carolina with Gene Smith won it all with Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Matt Doherty, Jimmy Back, and Buzz Peterson and their gang beat John Thompson's Georgetown with Patrick Ewing, Downtown Freddie Brown, Sleepy Eric Floyd, Eric Smith, Gene Smith , Bill Martin, Ed Spriggs, and David Blue; who ALL went to the NBA.

And the Consolation game was Guy Lewis' Houston team - also known as Phi Slama Jama. If you all remember Hakeem Olajuwon who came over her from "Muslim Teachers College, Clyde Drexler, Michael Young, Larry Micheaux, Eric Dickens, and Rob Williams. who beat Louisville They didn't win that year because of their youth, but Houston was my favorite team.
Louisville had Rodney and Scooter McCray, Charles Jones, Jerry Eaves, Lancaster Gordon, Derek Smith, Milt Wagner and were coached by Denny Crum. They were a highlight reel all year long with their high flying dunking act that year.

It was the greatest Final Four as far as Talent ever. It was an incredible experience.

A lot of future NBA players there. I have been to a number of World Series, Final Four, Super Bowl,NFL Championship Games, Bowl Games, etc.; but that one was memorable. And 30 years later it goes right back to New Orleans and my Buckeyes are there. I have a feeling...Yes it would be a 30 year anniversary for either Louisville or North Carolina, but I don't think so.