One of the great things about March is the emergence of heroes who seem to come out of nowhere. Remember Ali Farokhmanesh from Northern Iowa? What about US Reed from Arkansas? Tyus Edney of UCLA, for whom Duke’s Tyus Edney was named?
You could go on almost indefinitely. James Forrest from Georgia Tech? Doug Ebert from Saint Peter’s? Ed Pinckney from Villanova? Lorenzo Charles from NC State?
It’s glorious to see these guys come out of nowhere and, for just a short time, relish them as they shake the established order. It’s not quite the Mongols sweeping across the plains and destroying everything in their path, g but it’s pretty great.