March Madness predictions: Final Four

Last weekend’s NCAA tournament games offered a number of interesting story-lines, but obviously the thing that everybody was talking about was the injury of Louisville guard Kevin Ware. I’m not going to link to a video of it because it was extremely gruesome, and not something that I want to look at again. From a basketball perspective, Ware’s injury adds an interesting dynamic to this tournament, because Louisville seemed to really rally around his absence on Sunday, and for the final four, there will be an increased incentive for Louisville to win the championship in Ware’s hometown of Atlanta. Like many said at the beginning of March, this tourney was likely to be unpredictable, and it was. We’re now left with the #1 overall seed, two #4 seeds, and a nine seed. With all that said, here are my predictions for Saturday’s games.