Saint Peter’s: the tiny college taking on basketball giants and winning

Everyone loves a Cinderella story in the NCAA tournament and the Peacocks are fulfilling their role nicely this year

A college basketball team strolled into the gym for a most unlikely practice on Tuesday - unlikely because the team was Saint Peter's, the small school bound for the NCAA Sweet 16, and because nine television cameras and nine microphones awaited.

Everyone loves a Cinderella story in the NCAA tournament, the knockout competition that ends the college basketball season and pits tiny schools like Saint Peter's against behemoths with budgets in the tens of millions, like Duke and Kentucky. Perhaps even more so now that a horrid war is raging halfway across the world and Americans are still pretty much split into two snarling factions. The Saint Peter's Peacocks offer a break, a getaway. All of America eats this stuff up.