Who is your favorite Cinderella team of all time?

• cats gone wild

  I know I cant remember them all, but here's a few that pop into my head. Which one got you to cheer for them more than the others?
  VCU, Kent St, Western Kentucky, Butler, Valparaiso, George Mason, Gonzaga
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Hickory +1.
• Azubuike24

  

  Hard to top Valparaiso and Gonzaga in the late-90's, memorable for a lot of folks. Always had a soft spot for Western Kentucky as well.
• The Answer

  Weber St and Harold "The Show" Arceneaux was fun to watch
  Loved Gonzagas run to the elite 8
  Also a big fan of Steph Curry taking Davidson to the Elite 8
• stroups

  

  Kent st. baby
• mallymal614

  George Mason
• Iliketurtles

  

  George Mason!
• vball10set

  '85 Villanova beatin' the Hoyas...but this years' VCU team is coming on fast
• Laley23

  

  Gonzaga, early years.
  Davidson
  I havent gotten to see this years VCU team, so I wont put them there. Been flying all over the country during their games.
• sleeper

  

  I thought the Ohio team that took down Georgetown was fun to watch.
  
  But George Mason obviously.
• reclegend22

  

  As said above, Harold "The Show" Arceneaux. That deep run Weber State compiled in 1999 was the greatest run in tournament history. In fact, I think for their efforts the Wildcats should have been given the national championship and at least two World Series wins that season. (The '99 Yanks weren't that tough.)
  
  
  
  Valpo was an unforgettable run and, because of Bryce Drew's iconic leaning buzzer-beating three that resulted from his father Homer Drew's hook-and-ladder play "Pacer," I now ALWAYS pick Valpo to win its first game in my bracket, no matter what (as long as it's not a 16-seed match-up). It just left such an indelible impression on March Madness that the Crusaders' win in that first round game against Ole Miss seems like instead it was Kentucky and that Bryce Drew won the national championship that year. I think that's what's most remembered from that 1998 tournament, without a doubt.
• sportswizuhrd

  Boise St....oh wait.
  
  VCU(because GMU beat my boys from UConn and if VCU beats UConn, my answer will change, haha).
• Little Danny

  

  The 1990 Loyola Maramount team was special in my opinion. First, this was a ball club who seemingly put up 100 points a game. Then, Hank Gathers collapses and dies on the floor of their conference tournament. During the tournament his teammate Bo Kimble shoots his free throws left handed in his honor. LMU upset a very good Michigan ball club in the second round of that tournament. I will always remember that squad.
• reclegend22

  

  Little Danny wrote:First, this was a ball club who seemingly put up 100 points a game.

  They didn't seemingly put up 100 points a game. They put up 100 points a game. Haha. The Lions averaged 121 points per game during the 1990-91 season.
  
  Very good call on LMU. I was much too young to witness it, but I love anytime I see footage of that team or old Loyola Marymount games on ESPN Classic, especially the game against Michigan in the second round of NCAA tournament when Jeff Fryer scored 41 points and hit a record 11 three-pointers in a 149 to 115. Had I been old enough to remember it, I doubt anything (except for Harold "The Show" Arceneaux) would rival it.
  
  I love Bo Kimble's response after the Michigan game: "Everything hit them so fast, they couldn't get their bearings."
• reclegend22

  

  Little Danny wrote:First, this was a ball club who seemingly put up 100 points a game.

  They didn't seemingly put up 100 points a game. They put up 100 points a game. Haha. The Lions averaged 121 points per game during the 1990-91 season.
  
  Very good call on LMU. I was much too young to witness it, but I love anytime I see footage of that team or old Loyola Marymount games on ESPN Classic, especially the game against Michigan in the second round of NCAA tournament when Jeff Fryer scored 41 points and hit a record 11 three-pointers in a 149 to 115 victory over the Wolverines. Had I been old enough to remember it, I doubt anything (except for Harold "The Show" Arceneaux) would rival it.
  
  I love Bo Kimble's response after the Michigan game: "Everything hit them so fast, they couldn't get their bearings."
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Probably NC. St. in '83, heavy underdogs to a powerful Houston team. '85 'Nova would get a nod if it weren't for the fact that they were so coked up during their championship run.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Little Danny;727591 wrote:The 1990 Loyola Maramount team was special in my opinion. First, this was a ball club who seemingly put up 100 points a game. Then, Hank Gathers collapses and dies on the floor of their conference tournament. During the tournament his teammate Bo Kimble shoots his free throws left handed in his honor. LMU upset a very good Michigan ball club in the second round of that tournament. I will always remember that squad.

  
  Heck, I remember the players on the team....Jeff Fryer, Bo Kimble, Terrelle Lowery, Per Stumer, and the late Hank Gathers - they were solid.
• reclegend22

  

  Manhattan Buckeye wrote:Heck, I remember the players on the team....Jeff Fryer, Bo Kimble, Terrelle Lowery, Per Stumer, and the late Hank Gathers - they were solid.

  Don't forget Tom Peabody. The Human Bruise!
• Fab1b

  

  LMU for me followed by Mason's run and Butler's last season. If VCU or Butler can win it then that will be 1.
• jhay78

  

  As far as individual players on Cinderella teams, Steph Curry was one of the most fun to watch a few years ago.
  
  VCU is quickly becoming the most impressive Cinderella team.
• Con_Alma

  vball10set;727456 wrote:'85 Villanova beatin' the Hoyas...

  ...lowest seed to ever win it at an 8...correct???
  
  Beating the defending National Champions, USA Today called it the tournament's greatest upset.
  
  It was before the shot clock and the three point line. They had to contend with Patrick Ewing in the paint.
  
  That's a Cinderella team.
• Prescott

  Hated Loyola.
  
  Loved Dayton with Roosevelt Chapman. Wyoming with Fennis Dembo. Kent State with Trevor Huffman and Antonio Gates.
  
  Roosevelt Chapman, Dayton, 1984
  
  This is one that will make our ESPN colleague Dan Patrick proud. Entering the tournament as a No. 10 seed with an 18-10 record, the Flyers weren't expected to do much beyond the first or second round, but Roosevelt Chapman led the Flyers on an unlikely run to the Elite Eight, after upsetting LSU, Oklahoma and Detlef Schrempf's Washington Huskies. Chapman was a one-man show, scoring 29, 41 and 22 points in the three victories. The run ended in the West Region final against Georgetown, when he was held to just 13 points on 10 field goal attempts.
  
  
  
  Fennis Dembo, Wyoming, 1987
  
  On this list, he has the most fun name to say, and when he was on the court, he said a lot. Known as one of the preeminent trash-talkers in his day, Dembo gabbed the Wyoming Cowboys, a 12th seed, to the Sweet 16 behind startling upsets of Virginia and UCLA. Known for his outside shooting prowess, Dembo scored 16 in the first round win over Virginia, and torched trash-talker extraordinaire Reggie Miller and UCLA for 41 points in Round 2, shooting 7-for-10 from three-point range. He followed that with a team-leading 27 points against Armon Gilliam's UNLV squad, who ended the Cowboys' charge with a 92-78 victory.
  
  Trevor Huffman and Antonio Gates
  
  One of the great NCAA Tournament stories of the past decade, the 2002 Kent State Golden Flashes were a whisker away from going to the Final Four as a #10 seed. After knocking off Oklahoma State, upsetting #2 seed Alabama, and then stunning Pitt in the Sweet Sixteen ... the Flashes ended up falling to the eventual champs, the Indiana Hoosiers, in the Elite Eight. Led by Trevor Hoffman and Antonio Gates, the '02 Flashes had a Cinderalla run that will be remembered for decades.
• vball10set

  Con_Alma;727965 wrote:...lowest seed to ever win it at an 8...correct???
  
  Beating the defending National Champions, USA Today called it the tournament's greatest upset.
  
  It was before the shot clock and the three point line. They had to contend with Patrick Ewing in the paint.
  
  That's a Cinderella team.

  spot on, Alma...nothing like seeing the Hoya's go down (except, of course, the '93 tsun "time out" skunkbears)
  
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• Con_Alma

  How about the 1986 Cleveland State Vikings with Kenny "The Mouse" McFadden, Shawn Hood, Eric Mudd, Clinton Ransey, Paul Stewart, Clinton Smith and Eddie Bryant playing "Run & Stun" ball from Kevin Mackey. Playing in the AMCU-8 tournament with no automatic bid before there were mid-major standouts each year they were reliant on the NCAA to notice them and give them an at-large opportunity.
  
  
  They beat the heavily favored Indiana Hoosiers coached by The General in round one and knocked of St. Joseph of the A10 in the second round.
  
  Their tournament loss came from the NBAs eventual #1 draft pick David Robinson and the US Naval Academy.
• j_crazy

  

  For me, it's Butler. In like 2002 or 2003 they made it to the sweet 16 by beating Louisville. I was really pulling for them. I never got into any of the other ones mentioned. The last 2 years have been really fun to watch too.