Back To The Big Easy

And speaking of easy...wow, the Cats just kinda rolled through that regional like my dad used to roll through the buffet at Ryan's Steakhouse. Talk about acting like you own the place. Make yourself at home, kids!

Western Kentucky: nothing to be ashamed of. Told my brother that had to be the most successful 16-win season anybody's ever had in Division I. Glad y'all made it.

Iowa State: probably had the single-best player that UK faced in this tournament run, and if you don't remember who I'm talking about, it rhymes with Boyce Kite. But no supporting cast, no problem for the Cats.

Indiana: keep the candy stripes in Bloomington. Thanks for trying to push the pace, Coach Crean. Backfire much?

Baylor: talented for sure, but offering little resistance for an Elite Eight squad. Kentucky absolutely out-toughed them.

So it's back-to-back Final Fours for Coach Cal, and he's done it with another young team, and let's face it... they're probably all going to be pretty young teams for Cal unless someone changes the one-and-done paradigm. Seems to be working out pretty good for Kentucky in year number three.

Big Blue looks like an absolute machine right now. One of those big rock-crushing machines, I guess. Or like a state of the art wood chipper that just shreds big logs and branches and stuff. I don't know, something powerful and masculine, but still precise. You know, not anything wimpy like a sewing machine....oh no, nothing like that.

Kentucky can run up and down, and they can win a slugfest too. And since we can now officially look forward to the Louisville showdown, if you don't think that's going to be a slugfest, you're crazy. I believe Rick Pitino would like to play this one with both teams wearing boxing gloves, except on a muddy track at Churchill Downs. Lots of fouls, I bet. Very physical.

But bring it on, I say. Kentucky is plenty tough, as I'm sure the Waco Bears will attest. And they're taking the show back to New Orleans.

Don't leave without the hardware, guys.