Tourney and my own NBA 1-on-1 Tourney

Well, the madness is about to begin! What a good time of year. There has already been some great moments in just the conference tournaments; I think it will be a memorable real tourney. I just went down to the Mountain West conference tournament and the Friday night BYU-UNLV game was one of the most exciting games I've ever been to. I am ready for it to begin tomorrow. I'm still unsure with some of my picks, but I'm pretty certain I'm taking the Jayhawks. They've seemed to be the best team all year, and they've got the most experience.

There are a few things that I need to vent about with the seeding though. If Kansas is the number one overall, then why do they seem to have the toughest road. And then Duke, I usually don't believe the Duke conspiracy theories, but they sure do seem to have the easiest road and why do they get to play the play-in winner; I thought that was for the number one overall. Also, I am not happy with BYU getting a 7 seed. I can list at least five teams seeded higher they had a better year than. At least they get to play Florida though and not another big, black, and athletic team like A & M again.

Last of all, this week I heard about a sweet 3 on 3 game planned between Kenny Smith, Hakeem, and Rick Fox vs. Donovan McNabb, TO, and Antonio Gates. But you hear about these events all the time, yet I've never seen one on TV. There was supposed to be Michael Phelps vs Chad Ochocinco in swimming and Rajon Rondo vs Chris Johnson in a race, but I never heard anything more than roomers on either. They should do a lot more of these sorts of things though. And then actually televise them at reasonable times on reasonable networks. I guess there was that Shaq show, but I mean like real legit competitions. Here's a couple I think would be fun to watch.

• Usain Bolt vs a horse in a 200 m race
• Ron Artest vs Stephen Jackson in a UFC match
• Shane Battier vs Grant Hill in a UFC match
• UConn's men's basketball intramural champions vs the women's team
• Shaq vs the oldest former living NBA player who shot over 80% from the free throw line in a free throw contest.
• I've always thought a one-on-one off-season tournament would be awesome too... Take the 16 best players in the league and have them play until there is a champ. Here's who I think the field of 16 should be. (I know they could never get all 16 to commit though, plus there's probably not many teams that would risk injury and let them do it too.)... and next week I'll talk about who wins each. These are the first round games.

--close calls to participate: 20. Danny Granger - would have made it last off-season

19. Paul Pierce - like his team, just getting too old and slow

18. Steve Nash - easily one of the top 16 players but don't know if he could hold his own in 1-on-1

17. Pau Gasol - also probably a top 16 guy but I just don't want to see his ugly game or his ugly face in the summer time

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1. Lebron vs 16. Monta Ellis (takes Paul, Steve, and Pau's spots because he would be exciting to watch. Gerald Wallace is another guy I considered here, which would make a way better match-up, but sometimes I wonder how good he actually is and how much is just crazy athleticism)

2. Kobe "Bryant, slam dunk giant, outplay the Kob, son don't try it" vs 15. Tim Duncan "He aint frontin', step on the court and he'll show ya somethin' (had to do this match-up because of the old sprite commercial; and a few years ago, Tim would have been a 1 or 2 seed himself)

3. D Wade vs 14. D Rose (Chicago natives)

4. Dwight Howard vs 13. Amare (Battle of the bigmen)

5. Melo vs 12. Joe Johnson (both are over-sized shooting guards)

6. Kevin Durantula vs 11. B Roy (future MVP's)

7. Dirk vs 10. Chris Bosh (battle of the softer bigmen)

8. a healthy Chris Paul vs. 9. Deron Williams (you knew this was coming)

***Man, now that I did this, I really think they should do this. These match-ups would be off-the-heezy good.