Sports are great for creating instant, and lasting, drama. Very few mediums can take two individuals, two teams or two opponents, pit them together where neither is a villain and create edge of your seat tension. The NCAA tournament does exactly that and this year did it with great effectiveness. The second weekend of the tournament saw two defensive stalwarts play 40 minutes of nail-biting, pulse-pounding, thrilling basketball.
The lasting image for many fans is going to be that frantic 35 seconds when the West Virginia Mountaineers got one shot off and struggled to get a second shot off before time expired.