I Will Never Fully Recover From This

Remember 2005's NCAA Tournament? Remember when Wake Forest was given fucked over with a #2 seed because Nate Robinson and his Washington Huskies bitched their way to the #1? Remember when Chris Paul was just a college player everyone thought was good, not an NBA player everyone thought was great? Remember when two douchebags named Mike Gansey and Kevin Pittsnogle came out of nowhere?

I do, and I'll never get over it.

I remember being a junior in college, watching the game in the basement of my house with my two fraternity brothers (Club Brookwood, represent). I remember thinking that there was no way we could lose this game. I remember picking Wake to go to the Final Four, just like everyone in the world. I also remember going to double overtime and eventually losing. I remember Sean Carroll smashing a full beer into our fireplace and Mike Henning throwing a trashcan across the room.

It remains the most heartbreaking loss I have ever experienced. I don't think I'll ever get over it, and every year about this time, I think back to the best chance Wake ever had to get a national title and how we shit the bed.

Like always.