March Madness: Murray State, Wofford, Villanova and Nevada potenial Cinderellas
Welcome to the greatest few weeks of the year, the NCAA March Madness Tournament! Everyone’s siblings, parents and grandparents will fill out an NCAA Tournament bracket in hopes of creating the elusive perfect bracket.
All the first round Tournament games are played on a Thursday and Friday annually, which unquestionably should both be universal holidays. Every one of your coworkers will have at least one game on one of their monitors in their cubicle throughout the day and you will too. Now, each March Madness, the most intriguing story lines are the Cinderella teams, teams with a higher seed that the clock does not strike midnight for in the first weekend of Tournament play.
Last year, the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers, an 11-seed from the Missouri Valley Conference, survived and advanced all the way to the Final Four where they ended up losing to Michigan. Who can forget Sister Jean, the lovable nun who attends every Loyola-Chicago game, and how all the players hugged her before and after every game? There is just nothing like March Madness!
So the obvious next question is who are the potential higher seeded teams in this year’s Tournament that could make a run to the year’s Final Four and continue the feel good underdog story? In the next few slides, I will breakdown five teams 6-seeds or higher that I believe can make a deep run to this year’s Final Four.