Go Patriots!

Growing up many years in Northern Virginia I heard about George Mason University as a viable option as a location to get my college degree. I even applied there while in high school and was accepted. What I never heard was about George Mason being a great basketball program.

That has all changed in recent years. George Mason has reached the Elite Eight of the current NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. It was a team that many thought toward the end of the regular season might not make it to the tournament at all. They had a bit of a small slump and one of their top players was suspended for at least the first game of the tournament.

The Patriots have proven that they did indeed belong in the tournament. Do they have the potential to win the whole thing? Probably not. They next have to face the humongous challenge of defeating number one seeded the University of Connecticut.

But no one will forget how the George Mason University Patriots became the Cinderella Story of the 2006 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.