The Georgia Bulldogs come into the NCAA tournament riding the wave of possibly the biggest emotional high of any team involved this weekend. A team that wasn't "supposed" to be in the tournament at all is now the tourney darling. The Bulldogs got the bid as the number 14 seed in the West by beating four teams in four days in the SEC tournament. Really they won four games in three days as they had to play two games in one day due to the tornado that ripped through Georgia on Friday night and ripped apart the Georgia Dome (the host site for the SEC tournament). Because of that Georgia had to play two games on Saturday. The first game was against one of the hottest teams coming into March Madness, the Kentucky Wildcats. What made things even worse was that the Georgia had to go to overtime in order to beat Kentucky. They did just that and moved on to play the SEC West regular season champions, Mississippi State.

If ever there was a Cinderella team in a conference tournament, Georgia was it as they went on to win yet again and move on to the SEC championship. There they played the Arkansas Razorbacks, a team that just defeated the best team in the SEC in the Tennessee Volunteers. So this had to be the end of their run right? Wrong! Georgia would pull away from Arkansas early and coast to an SEC title.

In the end, Georgia turned a rough season into one that ended up saving their head coach's (Billy Humphrey) job. They only won four games in the SEC in the regular season and then won the SEC tournament in amazing fashion. They come into the Big Dance with a 17-16 record. That's not a record that should scare anyone in the tournament really, especially considering Georgia played in the SEC, which wasn't nearly as great a conference as it has been in the past.

Unfortunately for Georgia, their dance will probably be short as they drew the Xavier Musketeers in the first round this weekend. Xavier, the Atlantic 10 regular season champs, got bounced early from their conference tournament by St. Joseph's. Even with that the Muskies got a #3 seed, their highest seed in school history. The time off for the Muskies is exactly what they needed in order to get Drew Lavender's leg as close to 100% as possible. With that rest Xavier is one of the scarier teams in the tournament. A run to the sweet 16, even the Elite 8 isn't out of the question for them. And it starts Thursday afternoon at 12:20 when Xavier attempts to show dance darling, Georgia, the door, and spin them right off the floor and right out of the tournament.