Every year people around the country fill out their brackets and they talk about "Cinderella" teams who can win it all. Whether you call it the big dance, or March Madness, almost every sort of conversation you have surrounds the craziness that is the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
The thing is though, most of that madness happens in the first weekend, maybe the second. Usually, by this time into the dance we have the cream rising to the top and when we see the Final 4 teams standing we have a bunch of teams that were ranked inside the top 10 all year, plenty of #1 and #2 seeds and the Cinderella stories have all struck midnight.
2023 will be the year that we can have a true upset and Cinderella feel. This season's tournament began with an empathic upset, maybe the greatest of all time, when Purdue became just the second #1 seed in history to lose their first game. But, the upsets didn't stop there. Not only did #15 Princeton win one game, but they won two. This also will be the first time in history that no #1 seed has made it into the Elite 8 and thus creating the madness that we all crave.
Now we get into the Final 4. We have one #4 seed, two #5 seeds and a #9 seed. The lowest seed to ever win the tournament is still a #8 seed, so FAU can become the biggest upset to win it all ever. That would put a cherry on this wild and mad tournament season. While most of the country is rooting for the Owls to do the unthinkable this weekend, each team has their great upset laden story.
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They have a chance to put the Mountain West conference on top for the first time.
Every year we look at March and say that it will have some madness, but this year we have had more than ever, and we are guaranteed a true Cinderella will emerge after midnight.