With just one game remaining in the men’s college hoops bracket blowout spectacular, RandBall Style, tonight’s championship game will have a huge bearing on the winner. Here’s how it breaks down: If Kansas wins, Matt Nelson and Mike Ring will tie at 277 points for the title; if Memphis wins, JPF and his UCLA-picking 260 points will hold on while AZGopherGirl will come up just short at 258. Your humble Proprietor, who held down first place for quite a while, needs a miracle upset victory tonight from Georgetown to reclaim the top spot. Danonymous and — in a major upset — Christ Almighty are going to finish tied for last with 182, thus sparing Stu (188) from the shame. Saturday’s games really changed things; just 8 of 28 players have either Kansas or Memphis winning it all, while 19 of you had either UCLA or North Carolina. And yes, we were the only one out of 28 not to pick a No. 1 seed to win it all. In any event, since many of you have neither a vested (prize) interest or any other sort of emotional attachment to tonight’s game, let’s take a look at the two participants and see if we can come up with a rooting consensus:

*When searching Google Images, “Memphis” pulls up adult film start Memphis Monroe (careful) and also the Memphis Grizzlies; “Kansas” pulls up pictures of wheat and the above band. Advantage: even.

*We’ve been to Kansas; we’ve never been to Memphis. Advantage: Memphis.

*Memphis has future Timberwolves point guard Derrick Rose; Kansas has local boy Cole Aldrich. Advantage: even.

*Memphis coach John Calipari can guess your weight within three pounds. Kansas coach Bill Self always knows what time it is within 15 minutes. Advantage: Kansas^

*Tiebreaker: Memphis knocked out Kevin Love and UCLA. Tyler Hansbrough and North Carolina; Kansas knocked out Stephen Curry and Davidson. Advantage: even.

That says it all, folks. We’re rooting hard for Memphis tonight!

Mystery link! The very first “One Shining Moment.” (Forward to about 2:00)

^Entire thing made up; Bill Self attribute might actually be something about Ourself.

(Update: It has come to our attention that Memphis did not, in fact, defeat North Carolina. Sadly, however, the Georgetown part was right).

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