March Madness: Best mid-major NCAA Tournament moments of the past decade
By Brian Emory
As we are now a few short days away from the 2023 NCAA Tournament tipping off, we thought it would be a perfect time to take you for a trip down March Madness memory lane.
You could spend hours compiling a list of reasons why March Madness is incredible, but every college basketball junkie would unanimously agree the upsets are part of what makes the tournament special. Much of the lore of the Big Dance is rooted in the occasions where David tackles Goliath.
Every year it seems like there is a new school of mid-major status that topples a reigning titan. Sometimes these programs are even able to parlay that momentum into multiple wins at the Big Dance, and it’s not a stretch to say that these “15 minutes of fame,” can dramatically alter the entire future of a school.
College basketball offers every Division 1 program a chance for exposure of magnitudes that pale in comparison to other sports. Due to the regular frequency of these upsets it would be nearly impossible to include every tournament into the construction of this list. So here are my personal favorite mid-major Cinderella stories of the past decade.