I think this is the most interesting match-up of the tournament so far. My brain is telling me to pick Husky15, and my gut is telling me to pick Scoe.
If you want to contextualize for a moment just how dominant of a run this program has had, look at those lineups again. What do they both have in common? Everybody in both starting lineups won a championship. That's f'in remarkable. I was about to trot out the "it's hard to bet against all the champions on Scoe's team" reasoning before I realized the exact same thing could be said for Husky15.
Regardless, I'm picking Scoe. I just can't pick against Napier/Boatright in an elimination game. Just can't do it. Napier was 12-1 in the NCAA Tournament (12-1!). And his one loss was with a dysfunctional team that had a couple characters who may not have valued winning quite in the same way guys like Freeman do. Tzznandrew is correct in what he says about Husky15's perimeter defense. Napier and Boatright carved up every defense they faced in the tournament and that was without a capable finisher at the five position (as well as Nolan and Brimah played, think of how many times they were stuffed against Kentucky). Against El-Amin, Mourning, and Lamb - with Anderson as a release valve when Okafor arrives for help - I imagine those two will cause a lot of trouble. And, for as good as Emeka was, he is neutralized to a certain extent in this match-up because of Napier's craftiness and potency from deep. He's not going to bang his head into a wall trying to finish at the rim like certain opponents did in '04.
Edit: wow, did not expect the voting to be that lopsided.
