Chalk wins again

 So, after all that, we're left with royalty.

Duke.

North Carolina.

Kansas.

Villanova.

Your Final Four, America.

Doesn't get much more old-money aristocratic than that, which is amazing considered all the craziness that preceded it. But the leisure class prevailed in the end, as usually happens in March. Just call this the First-Class Passenger List Final Four, no steerage interlopers allowed.

Consider: Among the four survivors, there are a combined 17 national titles and 61 Final Four appearances, led by Carolina with six and 21, respectively. Kansas traces its family tree back to James Naismith himself. Carolina has Frank McGuire and Dean Smith and Roy Williams, and now Hubert Davis. Villanova won a national title with Rollie Massimino and two more with Jay Wright, perhaps the best college basketball coach now working. And Duke, of course, has Coach K, and also Vic Bubas back in the '60.

Those are some platelet-rich bloodlines right there. And who can possibly wait for K's valedictory clash with Carolina, and Kansas taking on Wright's impeccably schooled Wildcats?

It's gonna be some fun, boys and girls. And the Blob's pick, which is almost always wrong?

Put your dough on the Jayhawks.