#1 New York Times bestselling author John Feinstein returns to his
first love--college basketball--with a fascinating and compelling
journey through a landscape of unsung, unpublicized and often unknown
heroes of Division-1 college hoops.
John Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's
lesser-known Cinderella stories--the smaller programs who no one expects
to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school
recruits. To tell this story, Feinstein follows a handful of players,
coaches, and schools who dream, not of winning the NCAA tournament, but
of making it past their first or second round games. Every once in a
while, one of these coaches or players is plucked from obscurity to lead
a major team or to play professionally, cementing their status in these
fiercely passionate fan bases as a legend. These are the gifted players
who aren't handled with kid gloves--they're hardworking, gritty
teammates who practice and party with everyone else.
With his trademark humor and invaluable connections, John Feinstein
reveals the big time programs you've never heard of, the bracket busters
you didn't expect to cheer for, and the coaches who inspire them to take
their teams to the next level.