There is nothing in sports capable of capturing drama and excitement quite like college basketball's March Madness. It brandishes urgency at every turn and turns each game into the organic, grueling emotion that drips annually from its coffers. Every movement is capable of determining whether someone's season ends or not, and its unpredictability builds the images of a legendary, eternal fabric.
Last year's NCAA Tournament never happened after it became the first sports casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conference tournaments stopped, in some cases, in the middle of a game, while others left tournament and championship hopefuls in limbo.