Philly gets to put on dancing shoes

Ecstatic over getting an unanticipated ninth seed, Villanova coach Jay Wright stumbled starting the news conference Sunday. 

The Wildcats didn't get into the NCAA Tournament last year, which is why Wright laughed along with the media when asked if he'd forgotten how to act on Selection Sunday. 

“That's what I love about coaching in Philly,” he said. 

The Wildcats went just 13-19 last year in snapping a streak of seven straight and sometimes spectacular appearances, including a trip to the Final Four in 2009. In that dance they were eliminated by North Carolina, who they open this one against Friday in the South Region in Kansas City. 

It's fair to say Wright and the Wildcats (20-13) like their seeding more than their opponent, as the eighth-seeded but unranked Tar Heels (24-10) play at a frenetic Louisville-type pace. The Cardinals crushed the Wildcats in the Big East tournament. 

Then again, Wright fretted the Wildcats would have to open the NCAA tournament in a play-in game. A Tuesday game followed by a Friday tipoff would have been disastrous.purplesuprashoes Speaking of which, the Cats didn't know if they'd be going anywhere after stunning losses to La Salle and Temple during a three-game skid earlier this season. 

“We're obviously thrilled to be in the tournament,supra skate shoes” Wright said. “When you're in the position we're in you have to sit back and wait and see how they value you because you don't know. We're honored and humbled that they gave us a ninth seed. We're proud of that. And to get to play Carolina in the NCAA Tournament, heck, that's why you come to Villanova. It doesn't get any better than that, to play one of the greatest programs in the history of college basketball in the NCAA Tournament.” 

So the beauty confession of last week was that Sarah Jessica Parker's lhigh heel habit has deformed her feet. However! That news does not deter me from my love of gorgeous shoes, even though they are often painful and might one day cause me to grow extra bones in weird places as Parker says happened to her (ouch!). 

So now that spring is springing, I'm looking lustfully at all the pretty, impractical footwear out there that's almost but not quite as impractical as the world's most uncomfortable shoes. After all, it's just about time to burn my winter boots in a bonfire. And here's my own little confession -- don't judge me! -- I'm TOTALLY into TOMS cute new wedges.

Here are 7 pairs of spring and summer heels that I'm ogling, because even though most of my warm-weather moments will be spent in flip-flops, it's good to have something sexy supra shoes for girls for those occasions where you don't have to actually walk!