In a most unlikely scenario, Ohio State will face Florida in the NCAA men’s basketball final tonight, the same two teams that square off in the BCS football championship in January. When asked about the rematch yesterday at a press conference, both OSU coach Thad Matta and Florida coach Billy Donovan downplayed the significance of the rematch, saying they were focusing only on the game at hand, not what happened several months ago.
While that may be true for the Gators, who have enough motivation to win back-to-back national basketball titles for the first time since Duke did it in 1991 and 1992, OSU has to be thinking about payback time after Florida upset them in the BCS football title game. OSU’s football team was ranked number one going into its championship game, just as its basketball team was number one before the NCAA tournament began. You have to believe that the Buckeyes are playing for school pride, not just for a national title.
As much as I’d like to see the Buckeyes win, I’m afraid Florida will reign supreme again.
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