NCAA Final Four Matchup: LSU to Stomp on UCLA

LSU Tigers will decimate any frontcourt the UCLA Bruins come up with.

With the size they have coming in to their matchup with UCLA, the LSU Tigers are an easy bet heading to the two programs' NCAA Final Four dance on Saturday.

Tyrus Thomas alone is one tough giant to escape from inside the paint with the way he swats the basketball away from the hoop.

Tyrus Thomas' leaping ability is superhuman and he can use that with his gorilla-like wingspan perfectly. It's one thing reading Thomas' blocking ability on paper, but it's an entirely different story watching him swat the ball like a fly.

''We're going up against the human fly-swatting machine,'' UCLA coach Ben Howland said. Howland is concerned, and there's plenty more reason to be concerned about.

And then there's LSU's ''Big Baby,'' Glen Davis, a giant with the genetic composition of a man that goes by the name of Shaquille O'Neal, that can power his way through basically EVERYBODY, whenever he chooses.

Glen Davis is already a 6'9'' skyscraper with a 310-pound frame. And he's only a sophomore. This guy will just get bigger and bigger and if LSU product, Shaquille O'Neal, was to tell us anything, Glen Davis has a bright future ahead of him. A huge one at that.

And perhaps the biggest problem for the UCLA Bruins coming in this Saturday's NCAA Final Four matchup would have to be the fact that both LSU giants work together as a unit. (Think Detroit's R&B, Rasheed and Ben Wallace.)

''Glen and [I] live together and have known each other since we were 10, and we've got the same background, so we have a bond that you can't teach,'' Thomas said. ''We aren't jealous of each other. We're never selfish. He's like my brother,'' Tyrus Thomas adds.

To say that the LSU frontcourt is a huge test for UCLA could very well be an understatement. Tigers will go on and play for the NCAA title, those Bruins will just be target practice on Saturday at the NCAA Final Four.

The LSU Tigers have 12/5 odds of winning the NCAA Championship while the UCLA Bruins still are one of the favorites with 13/4 odds. Who will come out of the NCAA Final Four between these two programs to play for the championship? Log on and check out Bodog now.