Memories, memories, memories. There were a lot of great ones from the 2007-08 season and it reminds me of that song by Barbra Streisand.

It is time to reflect on a great college basketball season.

Kansas ultimately won the national championship. The Jayhawks were resilient and tenacious. What memories pop into my mind as I think back to the preseason prognostications. Most experts had North Carolina, Kansas. Memphis and UCLA as the crème de la crème and those were accurate projections. We had all four No. 1 seeds advance to San Antonio, an unprecedented performance.

Bill Self flashed that great smile as he got the monkey off his back. First he got Kansas to the Final Four and then he celebrated a national championship with the biggest prize of all.

It was a phenomenal year with the Goliaths absolutely stepping forward and took charge at the end.

Looking back, I think about the terrific play of Davidson's Stephen Curry. Are you kidding me? I haven't seen a dominating performance like that in the tournament in my 29 years at ESPN. Can anyone remember a player carrying a mid-major team on his back the way Curry did? The Wildcats made the Elite Eight and were so close, just seconds away, from advancing to the Final Four. He was brilliant, and there were individual single-game performances in the tournament (like Bill Walton vs. Memphis in the national championship) that were better. Curry stood the test of time with four exceptional performances, including wins over Georgetown and Wisconsin, as well as the eventual champion Jayhawks.

This was almost the year that Indiana's 1976 squad was challenged. That's right, those Hoosiers were the last unbeaten team in Division I men's hoops. Memphis came oh so close, losing late against Tennessee and Kansas. Think about it, John Calipari's club almost went 40-0! Imagine if the Tigers went unblemished. Bob Knight's '76 club remains the last to have that zero in the loss column.

Memphis showed some championship qualities. The Tigers ran through Conference USA and handled a difficult non-league schedule. There was a great comeback against UAB, rallying in the final minutes to win on the road. The loss to the Vols was heartbreaking, as was the big one for the gold trophy against the Jayhawks.

It was a great season for Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina. Many projected him to be the Player of the Year in the preseason. Did he live up to that billing? You bet he did and I have not seen a player compete harder than the Tar Heel star in all of my years in broadcasting. He was sensational for North Carolina all season.

Look at the arrival of the deepest class of diaper dandies that I can remember. Guys like Michael Beasley, Derrick Rose, OJ Mayo, Eric Gordon, Kevin Love showed why they got all the notoriety as high school stars. For many of them it is one and done, but they gave us so many great moments.

Think about the job UCLA coach Ben Howland did. Three consecutive years in the Final Four is quite a feat! I just hope that the critics start screaming about whether he can win the big one; that would be very sad. He has done an incredible job building the Bruins back into major-league prominence.

It was sad to see Indiana's season end in such a tough fashion. Kelvin Sampson had a second opportunity but he let it slip away by duplicating mistakes he made previously at Oklahoma.

Already in the off-season there has been a lot of movement in the coaching ranks. Tom Crean left Marquette for Indiana. Crean will bring energy and enthusiasm to the Hoosiers program. Mike Montgomery returned to the sidelines when he accepted the job at California. Trent Johnson left the west coast and Stanford for the opening at LSU. He will bring discipline to Baton Rouge.

Others said no like Self, who stayed at Kansas instead of going for the green at his alma mater, Oklahoma State. Travis Ford decided to stay at Massachusetts instead of leaving for LSU or Providence.

There were milestones galore for guys like Eddie Sutton (800), Gary Williams (600) and Rick Pitino (500).

It was all culminated by an outstanding national championship game. Kansas showed the heart and guts of a real champion, coming back against a well-coached and talented Memphis team.

I can't wait for next season. It is hard to project who will be the best of the best until we get the final list of players saying bye-bye and going to the pros.

Memories of the 2007-08 special season will be with us for a lifetime, baby!

Dick Vitale coached the Pistons and the University of Detroit before broadcasting ESPN's first college basketball game in December 1979. Send him a question for possible use on ESPNEWS.