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The NCAA Tournament is about to turn someone into a star.
Just wait. This time next week, its top-performing player will grace the cover of magazines and appear on televisions across the country. It happens every year.
Breakout performances in March Madness turned Wally Szczerbiak into a pronounceable name, made Stephen Curry a national player of the year candidate at Davidson and helped Bill Bradley become a senator.
The NCAA Tournament is loved for many reasons, and star players are one of them — right up there with office pools, “One Shining Moment” and the bracket itself.
Basketball fans in this area perhaps understand that better than most. In 1988, they watched as Danny Manning led a Kansas roster of role players to a ...
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