Someplace, a whole group of basketball gamers is getting fitted for his or her glass slippers.
As a result of one of many highlights of the annual Males’s and Girls’s NCAA Basketball Match are the Cinderella tales.
Whether or not it was the Stephen Curry and his Davidson Wildcats in 2008, Sister Jean and the Ramblers of Loyola Chicago in 2018 or the peacocks of Saint Peter’s in 2022, the entire world seemingly will get behind the squads that greatest the basketball Goliaths like Kansas, Kentucky, Connecticut and North Carolina. They assist us really feel higher about the truth that our most well-liked group was despatched house within the first spherical, taking our busted brackets with them.
In any case, who would not love an underdog? (Properly, aside from the fanbases of the groups they beat. We’re taking a look at you, Virginia!)
And now that the 68-team March Insanity brackets have been set, we’ll quickly see what occurs when a group of athletes carry on believing that the dream that they need will come true.
Over the course of the subsequent three weeks, superstitions shall be adhered to, pretend sick calls into work shall be made, buzzer beaters will drop and dozens of squads shall be bounced from the beloved win-or-go-home tourney.