The 10 best Cinderella stories from March Madness

In all the magic of the NCAA Tournament, let’s consider the glorious tall-bodied tales that have challenged the imagination which later became animated and then … well, they don’t resemble the titles or stories of fairy tales at all. However, we …

Loyola Marymount (1990)

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Hank Gathers.

Bo Kimble.

Who can forget that Lions team that overcame Gathers’s shocking, tragic death on the court in a WCC tournament game?

Kimble led No. 11 seeded LMU to the Elite Eight after beating New Mexico State, Michigan and Alabama, before being bounced by UNLV.

Kimble’s first left-handed free throw to honor Gathers remains an iconic moment in NCAA basketball history. Watch here.