The Final Four are finally settled as VCU stunned number 1 seed Kansas in the Elite 8 and Kentucky knocked off North Carolina. The Final Four now features a pair of cinderellas in 8 seeded Butler who reached their second consecutive National Semifinal and the 11 seed VCU Rams. 4 seed Kentucky will play 3rd seeded UConn Kemba Walkers (sometimes referred to as Huskies) in the other semifinal.
It's safe to say that pretty much no one had VCU and Butler facing off in the Final Four or that this would be only the 3rd Final Four since the inception of the 64-team format that had no number 1 seeds. If you followed my March Madness preview then you were not at all surprised to see UConn and Kentucky make it through. In fact VCU just ruined what has become my most successful bracket ever as I cracked the top 10,000 on ESPN.com (out of 5.9 million that's not too shabby) but having Kansas win the National Title will cripple any chance of finishing in the top 1,000 or so.
It will be an interesting dichotomy as one side of the draw we have two of the most successful programs in college basketball history facing off while on the other we have two teams that nobody saw getting past the 2nd round. That means one of the small programs will play for the National Title and given how this tournament has gone we may very well see the 1985 Villanova squad's record for the lowest seed to win a title either tied or beaten next weekend.
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