If you want to win your NCAA Tournament bracket, you have to find a few dark horses to make a deep run, so here’s the best candidates that fit that mold.
Picking upsets and seeing which team can be a Cinderella story is one of the best parts about the NCAA Tournament and March Madness.
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We love to root for the underdog — as long as it doesn’t kill our brackets — and watch as the small school team we’ve never heard of, or what their mascot is or even where they’re located and make a deep run in the tourney.
Whether it’s Butler going to back-to-back national championship games in 2010-2011 or VCU, George Mason, and Wichita State making it all the way to the Final Four, they are the dark horse team that defied the odds, made analysts look silly and brackets to bust.
And we love every second of it. Who doesn’t love a good underdog story?!
We rooted for the tortoise against the hare. We rooted for David to slay Goliath. We root for the underdog because we are a nation founded by underdogs.
No one likes picking chalk and if the favorites won all the time it wouldn’t be March Madness, so here are the top five dark horse candidates that can make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament this year and be this year’s Butler or VCU or George Mason.
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