Every year there’s a storyline that develops from the first week of the NCAA tournament that dominates the national sports conversation for those three days that separate the second round and the Sweet 16. Typically, play resumes on Thursday, the focus returns to the court, and the “big story” from the week before morphs into endless discussions about the Final Four before it disappears forever.
This year’s first week big story may have a bit longer of a shelf-life.
The topic, of course, is NIL and the transfer portal eliminating Cinderella teams from the dance, and the resulting question of whether or not she’s ever going to
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