The NCAA Tournament has been going on for two weeks now, and as usual it has been amazing. This is the greatest sporting event of the year. It has all of the drama of an academy award-winning movie. The difference is, nobody really knows what will happen. Each year many of the top seeds fall to small universities that few basketball fans have ever heard of.
Small schools are what make the tournament interesting.
Perennial powerhouses often fall victim to being unprepared to face a team that has nothing to lose. Teams such as Gonzaga and Southwest Missouri State shocked highly ranked teams like No. 2 in the West, Stanford, and No. 4 in the East, Tennessee. These unexpected results are what make the tournament so interesting. Fans begin to support teams and players that they have never heard of, because they want the feel-good story to continue. Usually these teams make a run to the Sweet Sixteen or even the Elite Eight, but will bow out before the Final Four.