Mason Makes the Final Four

As an avid sports fan, I do not think I have ever seen anything as unbelievable as George Mason's run to advance to the Final Four. I say this because runs such as this one and championships are usually won by favorites, or by teams maybe ranked in the second echelon of a particular ranking system (example- in a 32 team league, it's a big upset if a team ranked tenth wins a championship). Mason was on nobody's national radar screen and not even on a local radar at the beginning of college basketball season. If you predicted that a local team would have made the final four four months ago, most people would have suggested Maryland, Georgetown, or George Washington, but not George Mason. And then nobody could have, in their wildest dreams, ever predicted that to get to the final four Mason would knock off three of the last five national champions (Michigan State, North Carolina, and Connecticut). In watching them however, and as surprising as this run has been the Patriots are not a fluke. They are a well coached, disciplined, and smart basketball team, that deserves to be in the tourney. They almost did not make it though because of a tough, but good decision made by the coach. His principle in choosing to do the right thing(bench one of his stars), despite the fact that it was the difficult thing to do is a great lesson to all people, and especially these young kids. It's hard not to root for these underdogs especially when they are led by such people as Jim Larranaga. If Mason can win two more games they will be the champions of college basketball and pull off one of the great sports stories of all time. GO MASON GO!!