NCAA Final Four's Cinderella Story: George Mason

''We seeded them too low,'' that is how Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage spoke of George Mason.

The no.11 seed in this year's NCAA March Madness brackets, George Mason dropped opposing teams, one at a time, to join UCLA, Florida and LSU in this year's NCAA Final Four.

Yes, no top seed made it this year, all the more reason why they call it, ''March Madness.''

George Mason's run at the NCAA promise land, is by far, the greatest run ever in NCAA Final Four history. George Mason, named after one of the founders of the U.S. Constitution who refused to sign the document because he wanted to abolish slavery, made the school's namesake even prouder.

Who wouldn't?

With the name 'George Mason' written across their chests, these basketball players will be hard to stop as they meet the Florida Gators to determine who will move on to play the biggest dance in college basketball.

The Patriots were one of the last five at-large teams to make the field, and all they did was knock off three of the last six national champs.

Michigan State (2000) in round one (without suspended second-leading scorer Tony Skinn), North Carolina (2005) in round two and Connecticut (2004) at the Verizon Center in overtime in the Elite Eight. Wedged in there was Missouri Valley champ Wichita State in the Sweet 16.

Let's go over this again, the Patriots took out Tom Izzo, Roy Williams and Jim Calhoun, the latter a Hall of Fame member and the first two likely to be enshrined some day.

''I don't know if I've ever seen anything as remarkable,'' Mike Tranghese said. Mike Tranghese is the commissioner of the Big East Conference.

''Connecticut played well but George Mason played out of its mind. It reminded me of the night Villanova beat Georgetown in 1985 to win the national title,'' he added.

George Mason will try to keep their Cinderella story alive as they take on the young Florida Gators. The Gators can prove to be tough adversaries to these Patriots because of their youth, youth that can very well shield Florida from the tension this big NCAA Final Four match-up will bring. However, once will be foolish to count George Mason out already.

The LSU Tigers have 12/5 odds of winning the NCAA Championship while the Florida Gators are 7/4 picks and are heavy favorites to become NCAA Hardwood Kings. UCLA still is one of the favorites with 13/4 odds but NCAA's Cinderella team, George Mason is coming strong with 15/4 odds. Who will come out of the NCAA Final Four as champions? Log on and check out Bodog now.