Hammer and Rails · Mar 21, 2019
Purdue Basketball: Welcome to March Madness
There’s a throng of people, yellow and green, and the patient cold. This is Hartford, Connecticut, but it feels like Milwaukee.
It was just two short NCAA tournaments ago that I was making my first trek to my first NCAA tournament in Milwaukee where the Boilermakers faced off against that yellow and green in their first-round game. That yellow and green belongs to the Vermont Catamounts, one of the best nicknames in college sports, and a consistently difficult to defeat small-conference school who is also set to play in the XL center’s South Region, against an FSU team that improbably came back late to beat Purdue this season.