It's amazing what winning five games in the NCAA tournament can do for a coach and a team. Three weeks ago, no one knew anything about VCU or their head coach, Shaka Smart.
In fact, the program was probably best known for two things. One, beating Duke in the NCAA tournament in 2006. Two, being a team that ESPN's Jay Bilas said had no business being in this year's NCAA tournament.
Yet, here the Virginia Commonwealth Rams men's basketball team is, three weeks into the NCAA tournament, playing against Butler, another mid-major school, in the Final Four with a chance to play for College Basketball's national championship. Smart is the hottest coaching prospect in college basketball, doing interviews on a number of national radio shows with people who had no idea who he was on Selection Sunday.
At the risk of sounding too much like I work for "Mike and Mike In The Morning," the one thing that was missing from all of this was a song that perfectly captured the essence of this run by this team.
We finally have the song, called "Shaka's Got 'Em Believing," set to the tune of "Hooked On A Feeling" by Blue Swede. The first lyric sums this run up far better than I ever could—"Shaka's got the feeling/That it's destiny."
When you look at what this VCU team has done to get to this point, it's already one of the greatest tournament runs in NCAA history. They have beaten teams from five of the six BCS conferences—USC (Pac-10), Georgetown (Big East), Purdue (Big Ten), Florida State (ACC) and Kansas (Big 12). The only one missing is the SEC, and they could meet Kentucky in the championship game.
Not bad for a team that originally "had no chance to get in," according to Bilas.
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