PHILADELPHIA — March Madness used to be all about Cinderella. Some small school who defied the odds and kept surviving and advancing, beating one big school after another.
That has all but gone away in the era of big time NIL money and the wild west transfer portal, so that even great moments like what happened Sunday when UConn beat Duke with one of the wildest endings in tournament history, you are left saying to yourself, “Yeah, but it’s UConn and Duke. Two college basketball blue bloods.”
So you probably have a hankering for a March Cinderella. A yearning that still exists because you remember a time when it happened and it was a feel good story for a few weeks every spring…