NCAA Tournament Insider: First Four, Bold Predictions, A Different Kind of Bracket, Fuzzy Math

Mar 17, 2015 by Robb Todd

It will be hard not to feel a little sorry for the winner of the tournament’s first game tonight. Yes, the winner.

Manhattan and Hampton are playing for the right to go up against unbeaten No. 1 seed Kentucky.

But don’t feel too sorry for the Jaspers' RaShawn Stores, no matter what the outcome. Stores, a senior point guard and team captain, has had a storybook career, and this profile in the New York Times is worth reading.

Stores walked on at Manhattan and won over Coach Steve Masiello, who understood very well what Stores was trying to accomplish. Masiello had walked on at Kentucky when he was a player.

“He means everything,” Masiello told the Times. “He’s an extension of me on the court.... Read More

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