In the Field: Elliott Sadler (cont'd)

A lot of their guys in the starting five played last year in the Final Four, in the championship, and they won it, so I think they've got it all figured out and they understand what's going to happen.

UCLA, too, was there last year -- so I'm kind of pulling for them, because nobody's really talking about UCLA. So if my boys aren't playing, I like rooting for the underdogs -- and everybody's kind of written UCLA off, even though they were No. 1 for half the year in the polls.

I think they've got a great basketball team. I think them and Kansas had one of the most exciting games of the entire season, the other day, to make it to the Final Four, so I'm really looking forward to seeing UCLA and Florida play -- kind of a rematch from last year.

And then I'm looking forward to watching Greg Oden [from Ohio State] and [Roy] Hibbert from Georgetown play -- two 7-footers duking it out in the other game. So each game has a good story line, but I think Florida right now is the team to beat.

I honestly think, whoever wins the Florida - UCLA game will win the championship.

Saturday night, I'm either going to watch my cousin, Owen, race at South Boston or stay in Martinsville and watch the games at my bus, while I'm getting ready for Sunday's race.

My family will all be up in Martinsville for the race -- and we're all basketball fans so I think we may end up cooking dinner and hanging out at the bus and watching the games.

Monday night we'll probably be somewhere around Emporia. We might all go over to somebody's house to watch the final -- but nothing extravagant.

We'll just hang out and watch it, because I've got a test Tuesday morning, at Richmond, so I won't be doing anything out of the ordinary for that Monday night game.

Elliott Sadler, now in his ninth full season in the Cup Series, shares weekly with NASCAR.COM readers life on the road through staff writer Dave Rodman.