#3 Florida State vs. #11 NC State

Last game of the night, State vs. State. This has got to be the highest seed the Seminoles have been at in many years. But I wouldn't count the Wolfpack out of this one by any means. They've already won in Tallahassee this year, and are on a pretty good roll right now. Speaking of Tallahassee, I didn't realize Creed were from Florida's capital city. I knew they were Floridians, just not the specific town. With that knowledge, it was an obvious choice to use them. And I'm even using their hit, "With Arms Wide Open," since I don't really want to listen to any of their other songs to pick out something better (or worse, most likely). At least I'm using the Strings Version for kicks. And you could definitely say that FSU's two All-ACC performers, Chris Singleton and Solomon Alabi, have wide wingspans.

To match up with Creed, I made the logical choice of Raleigh's best-known metal band, Corrosion of Conformity. I honestly don't know their stuff much at all, but I'm going with "Albatross," which was apparently a Top 20 hit from their biggest selling album Deliverance. If NC State managed to win 4 games in 4 days for the ACC title, maybe they'd finally be able to take the "albatross" of Jim Valvano's successes off of their collective neck. See what I did there? I'm clever.

With Arms Wide Open (Strings V...

Albatross - Corrosion Of Confo...

Creed - With Arms Wide Open (Strings Version)

Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross

#2 Maryland vs. #7 Georgia Tech

Moving onto Friday's evening session, we've got ACC regular season co-champs Maryland against a Georgia Tech squad that did just enough last night to probably clinch an NCAA bid. People might remember that GT almost won at College Park last month, falling only after a Cliff Tucker buzzer-beating 3 did them in. Can Derrick Favors make up for his team's terrible guards to pull off the revenge upset? Representing UMD, we have DC area rapper Wale. While I could have picked any number of other artists from the District, Wiz pointed out that at the beginning of Wale's song "Chillin" he says "DC chillin, PG chillin," referring to Prince George's county, which contains College Park. That's good enough for me. I'm posting the original version of the song, not the album version with Lady Gaga, although that one's alright too.

For the ATL, I'm going to use "Bad Kids" by Black Lips. It makes sense, Paul Hewitt's team is made up of too many bad kids, at least when it comes to decision-making on the court. And the line about "ain't no college grad kids" is perfect for the various one-and-done players that have passed through there recently (including Javaris Crittenton of the Washington Wizards, last seen pulling a gun on Gilbert Arenas in the team's locker room and getting suspended for the rest of the season).

Bad Kids - Black Lips

Wale - Chillin

Black Lips - Bad Kids

#4 Virginia Tech vs. #12 Miami

The second quarterfinal features two former Big East teams that joined the ACC for the 2004-05 season. Virginia Tech is trying to finally break through to the big dance after being snubbed the last two seasons, and Miami is probably just playing for fun, although they certainly took it to woeful Wake Forest yesterday. VT has a habit of losing games to lesser competition, so this could certainly be a close contest. To represent the Hokies and Blacksburg, we've got VT student band A Friendly Takeover. To quote the Roanoke Times, the band "originated from pure talent, minimal music lessons and a genuine enjoyment of the sound of acoustic rock. The band has played at several venues around Blacksburg, including Champs, Top of the Stairs and Cabo Fish Taco." The only way I could get their music on here was to link to their entire Myspace playlist, so for the first time you have MULTIPLE songs to consider by a single artist. They even have have a song called "Hurricane Bonnie," which struck North Carolina and Virginia in 1998. Unfortunately the song seems to be about some girl instead.

Representing The U this time out, we've got the lead-off track from Soul Jazz's Miami Sound compilation - "Cramp Your Style" by All the People. Sampled by Boogie Down Productions on "I'm Still #1," could this funk workout foretell what the Hurricanes will do to Seth Greenberg's boys this afternoon?