In case you aren’t tracking the games Saturday night like we will be - at home, with the computer nearby, chiming in on the comments section - now seems like a fine time to make your Final Four picks. UCLA-Memphis is up first at six, and the other game will probably start around 9:40. Just a couple matchups to consider in that first one: Derrick Rose and Antonio Anderson of Memphis against Darren Collison and Russell Westbrook of UCLA.

Anderson and Rose harassed the famed Texas backcourt into 10-for-34 shooting last Sunday, and even though Augustin and Abrams tallied 33 points, most of it came late, when the game was decided. In the Sweet 16, MSU’s Neitzel and Lucas were complete non-factors against the Memphis pair, shooting 5-for-15 (a week after having their way with a defensive-minded Pittsburgh team). Now here’s why we don’t like Memphis, and wouldn’t wager on them - a) ability to shoot free throws in a close game, and b) shot-selection against a defensive-minded team like UCLA. (If you watched the hideously ugly Memphis-USC game earlier this year, you know what we’re talking about.)

Also, the 2006 Regional Final shitshow (31 percent, 2-for-17 on 3’s) is still fresh in our minds. Plus, watching Dozier and Taggart and those clowns force bad shots - and clang them - is just too much for our stomach to take. All that being said … Josh Shipp is playing timid and hasn’t shown up in weeks, and unless he or Luc Richard can play Kevin Love’s wingman, the Bruins are going down. Memphis 68, UCLA 63.

A game we will have more interest in - Kansas/UNC. Depending where you go, the Jayhawks are 3 or 3.5-point underdogs, and everyone likes Carolina. Fine by us, we’ll take Kansas, but to win outright. We’ve already let it be known that we like Russell Robinson to do a superb job on Ty Lawson, and we think Brandon Rush is a difficult matchup for UNC, and the Kahn/Arthur combo may bring Hansbrough back to earth a bit. That being said, we have already lost three times in the tourney picking against the Heels: Arkansas, Washington State, and that massive tease from Louisville. We’ll make one last observation and brace ourselves for the criticism - you know CBS would love a Hansbrough-Love showdown Monday, so expect the refs let Hansbrough continue to get away with all those overly-aggressive reach-ins on the perimeter (like he did last week). Kansas 77, UNC 75.