at the beginning of the ncaa men's div 1 bball season, after learning that the florida gators kept their starting 5 and none of them opted out to go to the nba draft, i picked them in my head to repeat. not in an expert point of view(i hardly consider myself even truly knowledgeable in ncaa bball). it was just based on these premises:

1) florida's starting 5 is much like the pistons/suns/mavs, where all their strength is spread out amongst them, and not concentrated upon one or two individuals; there's not as much star power on this team, but no duds just the same.
2) they just won with this team, and brought it back for the next season

so put two and two together, and you have to ask yourself why would anybody with half a brain even THINK anybody else could win in dominating fashion?

i wanted ohio state's great duo of michael jr and greg oden to win, mind you. oden was just impressive all-around tonight. but i knew pretty much that florida was going to repeat. and my 2 premises proved true tonight; ohio state's 3-pt shooters were throwing bricks and the gators were just nailing em.

(shaq picked ohio state to win. i wonder if anybody on the pistons/suns/mavs they picked florida to win)