But, amid all the morass, we have officially entered the best month on the sports calendar. I could set the stage for March's onslaught of college basketball excitement by giving you my bubble teams or my Final Four picks. But you don't need to listen to all the basketball experts or watch all the games or analyze all the results and box scores to prepare for March Madness. No, there's a better way. When you get to March Madness, you hope life will imitate art.
Art has a way of ending on a happy note.
We believe the characters and fall in love with them and the story. It's all about being romanced or seduced. The following year Indiana won the NCAA Tournament, beating Syracuse on the Keith Smart jumper in the final seconds. In the movie, Jimmy Chitwood hits a last-second shot to win the 1952 Indiana state high school championship. The story was based on the 1954 Milan High School team that won the Indiana state title on a last-second shot by Bobby Plump, one of the most storied players in Indiana hoops history.