It wasn't exactly NC State-Houston, or Villanova-Georgetown. It wasn't even Duke-Butler, where you knew Duke was going to win, but all of a sudden Gordon Hayward almost makes that half-court shot at the buzzer. In fact, tonight's NCAA championship basketball game had very little drama at all. The tournament itself, though, was a completely different story.

I admit I spent most of the early rounds watching or listening to spring training baseball than March Madness. I did watch UCLA, San Diego State, and Wichita State, and had the games on at work when Duke, Ohio State, and Oklahoma gout bounced early. Harvard beat Cincinnati and Dayton knocked out the Buckeyes, and most people's brackets were shot. When the Flyers went on to beat Syracuse, Mr. Buffet's billion dollars were safe. No one in the nation had a perfect bracket.

For the record, of the 63 games played past that first round, 23 were upsets (37 percent). In the Sweet 16, half of the eight games resulted in Cinderella moving on. Three of the four games in the Elite Eight went to the guys in the road jerseys, and both semifinals saw a one-seed and a two-seed sent home. If you added the seeds in the final (#8 Kentucky and #7 Connecticut), you get the highest number in tournament history.

So even though these two contestants were unlikely ones for the national title, both are storied basketball programs, so you thought you might get some sort of microcosm of the tournament itself. Maybe a dozen lead changes, perhaps double overtime, or at least a key three-pointer from Aaron Harrison. There was none of that. Connecticut never trailed, and beat Kentucky 60-54. The Wildcats got within one point on a few occasions, but barely made half of their free throws while the Huskies nailed them down the stretch.

Connecticut is the first seventh seed to win a championship, but Villanova was an eight in 1985, so why do they keep bringing that up? Kentucky would have been the youngest team to win a title, but coach John Calipari usually gets freshmen who leave for the pros anyway. At least you can say it was an entertaining ball game. The Wildcats were down 15 with six minutes to go in the first half, and cut it to four by halftime. An Aaron Harrison three-pointer on the first play in the second half got the deficit to one (I guess he did make a key three), but Kentucky couldn't overcome. They never trailed by more than seven in the final 20 minutes, but were never within three points or less in the final six and a half. Thinking about it, maybe this game was a microcosm of the tournament. It was all U-Conn all night, something you couldn't have predicted, just like every other game in the field.

Lightning Round: A great storyline was Huskies coach Kevin Ollie, taking over for legend Jim Calhoun who retired in 2012. In addition to following someone of Calhoun's stature, Ollie played for 12 teams in 13 years in the NBA (including seven games with the Sacramento Kings in 1998)... How ungracious and difficult to like was Shabazz Napier, the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player (22 points tonight)? He grabbed the mic from Jim Nantz, and addressed the crowd, saying “this is what happens when you ban us (NCAA violations last year). That was fine, but he never smiled, and never answered Nantz' question...At least the NCAA (which controls everything) had a decent looking court for the Final Four instead of those boring ones in the earlier rounds...Is it just me, or is CBS' signature One Shining Moment signoff segment getting shorter every year? At least they went back to the Luther Vandross version this time.

TV timeout: I remember when the new tournament television contract added TBS, TNT, and TruTV that TBS would eventually get to televise the championship game, but apparently it wasn't this year. How is it that they had the semifinals on Saturday, and not the final on Monday? I set my TiVo to the wrong channel, but at least I only missed the first 12 minutes. UConn was up by nine at the time, but I knew it would get interesting.

Out in the North Texas town of...: If it were West Texas in the Marty Robbins song, it would be El Paso, but did you notice that CBS or the NCAA didn't recognize the home city of what was originally called Dallas Cowboys Stadium? Last year's Final Four was in Atlanta, next year's will be in Indianapolis. This time, it was North Texas, not Arlington, or somewhere near Dallas.

Ladies Night: As unpredictable as the men's tournament was, the women's is the complete opposite. For the first time in that tournament's history, two undefeated teams will meet for the championship when Connecticut battles Notre Dame tomorrow night. It's on ESPN if you want to check it out.

Network News: Nothing to do with basketball, but plenty to do with CBS. I saw the news at work, but watched the show Thursday when David Letterman announced his retirement. I've always been a big fan, and even found it hard to get to sleep that night. Letterman began his Late Night program on the eve of my 18th birthday, so it is completely true that he has been on television all of my adult life. If the rumor hasn't started yet, how insane and incomprehensible would it be if Jay Leno was his successor. If Leno has a one-year noncompete (can't be on television at all) from NBC, it would have expired by the time Dave is ready to call it a career. Just sayin'.

I had a lot of baseball things to write about, but they can wait until next week.

Photo Credit: Dallas Morning News. Don't sue me.