Storming The Floor's Postseason Awards

Storming The Floor does a comprehensive review of the 2007-08 college basketball season.

Did you know that there's a whole six days between the Regional Championships and the Final Four? I mean, that's a lot of space to fill. It's a time when highly paid journalists dust off their templates and write soft-focus features about college athletes, detailing how they escaped their hardscrabble lives, or overcame the obvious detriments of having famous parents, whichever may apply. There's a lot of column space to fill, and not much basketball action going on (which is why we wrote about the NIT and CBI yesterday).

But the other lazy writer trick is our favorite. That's right, we made lists over at STF.

First Team All-STF

Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina Kevin Love, UCLA Michael Beasley, Kansas State D.J. Augustin, Texas Chris Douglas-Roberts, Memphis

This bears a striking resemblance to every other First Team compiled by anyone with eyes and a television set, but it's a nice jumping-off point nonetheless.

Second Team

Stephen Curry, Davidson Derrick Rose, Memphis Luke Harangody, Notre Dame Brook Lopez, Stanford Eric Gordon, Indiana

All-Awesome (Players who might have been inconsistent, injured or one-dimensional, but we love them anyway)

Kenny George, UNC-Asheville Jarvis Varnado, Mississippi State Patty Mills. Saint Mary's Tyrone Brazleton, Western Kentucky Jonny Flynn, Syracuse

All Name Team

Chief Kickingstallionsims, Alabama State Dionte Christmas, Temple Longar Longar, Oklahoma Gyno Pomare, San Diego Da'Veed Dildy, Stanford

Mid-Major All-Stars

Stephen Curry, Davidson Courtney Lee, WKU Arizona Reid, High Point Jason Thompson, Rider Josh Duncan, Xavier*

*Xavier refuses to claim mid-major status any more. So pretend you didn't see this.

Game of the Season

Western Kentucky-Drake, NCAA Tournament, Tampa

Floor Storming of the Year

William and Mary over VCU, CAA Tournament - "That Just Happened"

Most Annoying Subplot of the Season

Kelvin Sampson's Phone Scandal

The J.J. Redick Memorial Most Hated White Player of the Year

Greg Paulus, Duke (Unanimous) Best Media Member - College Basketball

Tie between - Bill Raftery and Gus Johnson. We couldn't decide if we liked shouting about vegetables more than being able to convincingly mimic a myocardial infarction.

Coach of the Year Herb Sendek, Arizona State - This former ACC Coach of the Year who was run out of Raleigh for all the wrong reasons took over the Sun Devils and promptly amassed a 2-16 record with his inherited roster. Then he recruited his ass off and turned it around to the tune of 21-13, an NIT berth, and a sweep of in-state rival Arizona. Which means... Worst Coaching Job of the Year Kevin O'Neill, Arizona - O'Neill seemed sort of like a sympathetic figure when the season started, but that was before he pulled a reverse-alchemist and turned gold into shit. He had at least three great players and the #1 schedule in the country, and made a mockery of a proud program. Lute won't even let him hold the remote control during commercials any more.

Easiest Team to Root For

Baylor - To many, the Bears were just a squad that made the NCAA tournament and lost immediately in lackluster fashion. But for a school that survived the Dave Bliss administration, just putting a competitive team on the floor was a major milestone.

Biggest Disappointment

N.C. State - expected by many to build on the season-ending hot streak from 2007, the Wolfpack fell flat with a 15-16 record that denied them entry to even the NIT.

Quote of the Year

"You can't blame it on any one thing because we made a bushel of mistakes. But the difference in the game was the technical foul on our fans." Arkansas Pine-Bluff Head Coach Van Holt, whose team lost when fans stormed the floor after a tie.