Can you imagine a scenario in which a Double A baseball team could somehow play its way into a World Series? Or a local amateur ice-hockey club winning its way into a Stanley Cup Finals? That is about the equivalent of South Dakota State — or the New Orleans Privateers, Iona Gaels or Vermont Catamounts — having a shot at playing into a Final Four with the Villanovas, North Carolinas and Dukes. And here is maybe what’s best of all about the NCAA Tournament: It isn’t all about winning it all. You can fall short and still be celebrated nationally and worshiped back home.
A quintillion reasons to love March Madness
