Top teams fall in Championship Week

Duke, Kansas and Syracuse have now all fallen victim to lesser opponents prior to reaching the championships in their respective conference tournaments.

Florida State took down Duke again (Photo courtesy Google Images)

As a Duke fan, I thought these loses could potentially help Duke move up into the No. 1 seed slot if they went on to win the ACC Tournament, but they soon fell as well. However, they lost to a quality team in Florida State, so they should remain a No. 2 seed.

Of course the Duke loss was a tough blow for me, especially now that they have lost to FSU twice this year, but this is why I love college basketball. Everybody expected Syracuse to beat to Cincinnati-- they didn't-- and everyone expected Kansas to beat Baylor-- they didn't. During Championship Week teams are so hungry to win and state their cases for the Big Dance that anybody can win, you really have to throw the regular season out the window.

The same pretty much goes for the NCAA Tournament, as the best team from the regular season rarely wins. Last year UConn won it all after a mediocre regular season, as they caught fire during the Big East Tournament. The year before Duke won it all with one of their lesser talented teams in recent memory.

That is the beauty of college basketball and March Madness-- anything can happen.

That being said, the two best teams in the country (in my opinion) are Kentucky and UNC, and they are both still alive in their respective tournaments. It's hard to imagine those two teams losing to any team other than each other, and that would be a great national championship if they were to meet in the finals. Nevertheless, I would be just as happy to see both lose in the first round, but that's just me.