2013 NCAA Tournament: What to Watch for Opening Weekend

  Nate Wolters and SDSU won at New Mexico earlier this season. Sure, it’s wildly satisfying if your team cuts the nets down and it’s gratifying if you take home money in your work pool. But the reason this tourney has become so adored among sports fans and casual viewers alike is for those  moments. You know the ones…the replays and the audio of the call play inside your head when you hear the names: Bryce Drew, Christian Laettner, Lorenzo Charles, Simon Says Championship, Hakim Warrick, Farokhmanesh, Edney. They’re moments in time that live on forever, created by college kids fulfilling a pipe dream. It’s a beautiful thing. As for this weekend, it’s impossible to predict if there will be the next Drew Nicholas shot or Thomas Hill face. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try to zero in on the possibilities. The way I see it, 3 categories/traits can make a game memorable. The more factors present, the more likely the chance is the game will stick into the fabric of college hoops forever....