Is college basketball about to say, 'So long, Cinderella?'

Would the one-two punch of a soaring NIL market and the lack of transfer restrictions turn out to be “the death of mid-major Cinderella runs,” as former Duke star and current ESPN analyst Jay Williams argued at the time? The conference strength gap between the Big East and Atlantic 10 is larger than the gap between the Atlantic 10 and the Big Sky, Miya’s 17th-rated conference. The potential impact of NIL and the loosening of transfer rules did not receive as much national publicity for the first few years because it didn’t detract from the magic of March.

Author: Jeff Eisenberg

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