For many basketball fans, the month of March is the greatest time.  Not because it is spring or because of St. Patrick’s day but because of the NCAA Tournament aka the March Madness.  The March Madness is a 64 team tournament spread out through the entire month of March and the beginning of April.  In the March Madness there is never a year where there isn’t a Cinderella team who just completely messes up everyone’s bracket.  A couple years ago it was VCU a team who was ranked in the double digits.  Last year it was Dayton who beat Ohio State and made it into the sweet sixteen.  One of the most heroic stories is the NC State wolfpack in 1989.  This team was coached by Jim Valvano who took this team to a conference championship defeating Ralph Sampson perhaps the greatest college basketball player ever.  They had the possibly the hardest road to make the tournament that year.  They had to win their conference championship just to make it into the tournament.  Once they made it in, they had to play tight game after tight game.  They got the nickname the Cardiac Pack because all of their games were so close and had to be decided in the last 30 seconds.  One thing that helped this team to their title was the three point line.  The three ball was instituted that year and allowed them beat teams that had more skill than they did.  Without the three point line I don’t think that this team would have been able to make it to the tournament much less win it.  This team did not have an easy road at all, in the final four they had to beat North Carolina who had the great Michael Jordan on their team.  After they beat UNC, they had to play the best team in the nation.  This team was nicknamed Phi Slamma Jamma because they liked to run the floor and just constantly dunked the ball.  This team was unbelievably athletic and even had future NBA star Clyde Drexler.  But in order to make it to this game, the Wolfpack had to do things that had never been heard of in basketball.  Jim Valvano was the first coach to intentionally foul and put the other team on the free throw line at the end of a game to get the ball back.  When he first did it, everyone thought that he was crazy.  But once people saw that their opponents weren’t making free throws at the end of a game and the Cardiac Pack clawed their way back into games, it quickly became expected in close games.