No Cinderella Story: Transfer Portal, NIL Money Take the Madness Out of March
This year’s Sweet 16 is dominated by traditional powerhouse teams, conferences.
The college transfer portal opened on Monday, ensuring the richest college basketball programs will get richer — as evidenced by the Sweet 16 of this year’s NCAA men’s tournament.
The annual season-ending tournament to decide the national champion became known as March Madness due to improbable upsets, in which mid-major schools took down the goliaths to earn their one shining moment. That didn’t happen this year. There is no Cinderella left in the dance.
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