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The Men’s NCAA Tournament Will Be Just Fine Without Cinderella Teams

Bluebloods, such as Duke, are the real ratings draw in the NCAA tournament. | Bob Donnan-Imagn Images

1.The first weekend of the men’s NCAA tournament is in the books and now an emerging narrative is that the sport is in trouble because there aren’t any Cinderella teams in the Sweet 16.

The theory is that with NIL here, the bigger schools have the most money and they can buy the best players and the smaller schools will get screwed and the early tournament upsets that everyone loves will become fewer and fewer as the years go on.

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