Somewhere, an entire team of basketball players is getting fitted for their glass slippers.
Because one of the highlights of the annual Men’s and Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament are the Cinderella stories.
Whether 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 whole world seemingly gets behind the squads that best the basketball Goliaths like Kansas, Kentucky, Connecticut and North Carolina. They help us feel better about the fact that our preferred team was sent home in the first round, taking our busted brackets with them.
After all, who doesn’t love an underdog? (Well, other than the fanbases of the teams they beat. We’re looking at you, Virginia!)
And now that the 68-team March Madness brackets have been set, we’ll soon see what happens when a team of athletes keep on believing that the dream that they wish will come true.
Over the course of the next three weeks, superstitions will be adhered to, fake sick calls into work will be made, buzzer beaters will drop and dozens of squads will be bounced from the beloved win-or-go-home tourney.
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