That’s what I thought.

However, before the tournament started the so-called college basketball experts ESPN believed one of the last four teams standing did not belong in the 68-team field.

For example, the sports blog awfulannouncing.com gathered all of the quotes and YouTube clips of the ESPN experts saying on Selection Sunday, that Virginia Commonwealth University should have never been invited to the tournament.

For example, Jay Bilas had several of them including this gem: “When I look at UAB and VCU at the expense of some of these other teams … I wonder if some people on the committee know whether the ball is round. That sounds harsh, but I wonder it. These were bad decisions. They were indefensible.”

Their viewpoint is what I argued about the mistreatment of the mid-major teams in my blog a couple of weeks ago.

Virginia Commonwealth University is making their first trip to the Final Four this weekend in Houston, and they had to do it the hard way.

The Rams were one of the final teams to be selected into the field, and that meant they were forced to beat a Pac-10 team, USC in the First Four on that Tuesday before most of the action took place.

On the road to the NASA headquarters, VCU also beat a Big East, Big 10, ACC and Big 12 team in the tournament. After they beat Kansas in the regional final last Sunday. I enjoyed looking at the stunned faces of the Kansas fans. Which is nothing new since in the past few years except for the national title in 2008, mid-major schools upset them. Some of their fans act like they invented the sport, however, most years when they have the best talent. They always find a way to lose when they are not supposed to.

Wow, imagine that they got a chance to compete with the so-called power conferences unlike in football. If the BCS ran the college basketball postseason like in football, teams like Butler, who is making their second consecutive trip to the Final Four would never, never, ever get a chance to compete for a national championship.

The leaders of these so-called power conferences would come up with every excuse like they do in football for not letting teams like Butler and VCU in the title picture.

Those excuses would include, they do not play against tough competition, their players and the conference are not very good, they might miss too much class and finally they do not have the name recognition and would not sell tickets or draw television viewers.

That means in English, we as the power conferences and we do not want you around, you are below us, please stay away because we are more popular and powerful than you.

Since Butler and VCU match up in one semifinal, that means on Monday one of them gets to play for a national championship.

By the time CBS, runs “One Shining Moment” late Monday night, I hope the final clip shows one of the two schools holding up the trophy proclaiming of being the best in college basketball the way it is supposed to be done. No B.S.