Root for St. Peter's, writes williamfleitch
How can you not root for St. Peter’s? Photo: Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the first one to include full-capacity arenas since 2019, shaved its 68 teams down to 16 last weekend in the uniquely thrilling fashion we’ve grown to expect.
Still, unless you’re an alumnus of one of the remaining 16 schools or possess gambling-related loyalties, it’s not always easy to figure out where you should direct your affections. So, as I did last year, I’ve put together a harmless, just-playing-around — please do not sic your school’s Reddits on me — ranking of the teams and schools by likability, a hopefully helpful Guide to the Otherwise Unaffiliated.
Its coach, Shaheen Holloway, has been brilliant all tournament, brilliance he’s about to parlay into a job with his alma mater, Seton Hall. But the star of the whole tournament, and an example of why so many people love it, is guard Doug Edert, who looks like a low-budget-’70s-porn star some casting director pulled out of a Trans Am. It is completely absurd that he, or St. Peter’s, would be here — the sort of story that could only happen in this crazy tournament.
That might seem like a bit much, but hey, that’s college basketball. In any case, Texas Tech is America’s team right now for one reason and one reason only: It’s next in line for a chance to end Coach K’s career.7) Purdue. Purdue is a perfectly likable team with a future NBA star in Jaden Ivey who is supplemented by massive center Zach Edey — at seven-foot-four, the tallest player in the history of the Big Ten. We’d totally be onboard with Purdue, except Purdue is playing our St.
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