Why This Year’s March Madness Cinderella Team Won’t Become The Gonzaga Of New Jersey

<p>No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s advanced all the way to the NCAA tournament’s elite eight. But on Sunday night, the team’s run came to an end when they suffered a 20-point loss to perennial powerhouse and No. 8 seed UNC. Before that, the improbable surge of the small Jersey City-based Jesuit college had made it this year’s college basketball Cinderella story, the seemingly annual surprise that transforms once-overlooked underdogs into the belles of the March Madness ball.</p>