Greatest of all time basketball tournament quarterfinal UCLA V Georgetown

When Wells and I started talking about this best of all time tournament a few things happened. One: we might have been drunk.

…an then? A super basketball tournament. I'm going to include pictures of robots. 

Two, in my mind the clear team to beat was going to be UCLA. Pairing Walton and Kareem together is almost unfair in college. Here you have two of the most dominate big men to ever play the game, and they crushed everyone in college.

I posted Kareem in the last round, so here's Walton.

                                      Think a better rebounding Tim Duncan, plus three inches.

How could any team match up with that? Two of the tallest and most skilled players to ever play the game. Well for starters you would need two aggressive and physical big men that could throw the twin towers of UCLA off their game.

If you were to run a list of the strongest players in college basketball history Ewing and Zo would surely be high ranking members on that list. And that's what makes this matchup so intriguing: if UCLA gets past Georgetown, they should win the entire tournament because no one else is big enough to match them.

UCLA lineup: Kareem Abdul-Jabar (Formally Lew Alcindor), Bill Walton, Reggie Miller, Jamaal Wilkes, Russell Westbrook.

Georgetown lineup: Patrick Ewing, Allen Iverson, Alonzo Mourning, Jeff Green, Otto Porter

So how do you call this one? What this game comes down to for me is if the stronger Georgetown front line can muscle the taller Bruins off their spots. You've got to figure John Wooden would have this game well scouted, and would set up some kind of high-low action between Walton and Kareem. Park Walton down low and let him occupy Ewing, Kareem further out on the block with Zo at his back. Both UCLA bigs were excellent interior passers, and shooters Jamaal Wilkes and Reggie Miller will keep help defenders from sagging into the paint to much for help defense.

Part of the reason UCLA might have been so dominate with their big men is because they played at a time when there just weren't that many skilled 7 footers as competition. Ewing has the bigger name, but as a senior Zo averaged an unreal 21 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks a game.

Georgetown does relatively well here, holding Kareem to 14 points and 7 rebounds, Walton to 16 and 10. The Georgetown bigs put up similar numbers with Zo and Ewing both chipping in 16 points and double digit rebounds.

Russell Westbrook is on this team as an athlete, and if we're going off a single college season he was not that great a college player. Even if he were, is totally outclassed here by possibly the best on-ball player to ever play at the college level: Allen Iverson. In his second year at Georgetown, Iverson averaged 25 points, 4.5 assists, and 3.2 steals. Westbrook wouldn't be able to dribble, and AI just has too many ways to score. Iverson drops his average at 25 points to lead the Hoyas, Westbrook finishes with 6 points, and his poor outside shooting also allows Iverson to hound the UCLA bigs on the catch.

                                                  You can never have enough AI highlights.

Otto Porter chases Reggie Miller all night and Porter's length bothers him. Porter and Jeff Green are not asked to score much. Wilkes would get a few, but again the Bruins offense would be focused elsewhere.

As inconceivable as it seemed at the outset,Georgetown pulls the upset on this one and advances over UCLA 85-80 to move on to the Semis.

I was looking for some pictures of Georgetown hotties to post on the blog in a victory celebration, and I'm sad to report to you that there aren't any. So sorry.

                                                       This guy can't believe it either