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Memphis beat UCLA by 15, and Kansas topped North Carolina by 18 in the Final Four games tonight to set up a Kansas-Memphis national championship game Monday night (7:21 p.m. Mountain time).

I only saw the end of the KU-UNC game, which gave me a healthy mix of terrible shots and wide-open alley-oop dunks. You know, North Carolina was losing that game pretty handily anyway, but Kansas devoured their laughable attempt at creating pressure in the closing minutes. They just found the open man every single time.

I'm sure Kansas fans are thrilled to be the team that knocked out Roy Williams' team. But you know, I could give a [care] about Kansas right now. I understand it's my job to blog about this, and you guys expect me to write something because this is my blog, but as a person, that's just not very nice of you.

Anyway, by my reckoning, Memphis-Kansas was the lamest possible matchup we could have had going in to this Final Four. It reminds me of 2003, when I was pumped for a Titans-Eagles Super Bowl, and ended up getting Buccaneers-Raiders. (Come on, McNair-McNabb? That would have been sick. Instead we get Johnson-Gannon.) I was so crestfallen by that outcome that I basically don't get excited going in to any semifinals anymore. Seriously. Like I predicted a Packers-Patriots Super Bowl this year, but I kept thinking back to that year and feeling it wasn't going to happen. And that's how I felt about a UCLA-UNC matchup, though I admit a bit of the excitement just came from the history of those two programs.

On the plus side, at least the team I hated (Oakland) lost the Super Bowl that year. I don't hate Kansas quite that much, but they're pretty freaking annoying, so I'll be pulling for Memphis Monday night.