The Patriot League is one of the NCAA's smallest Division I conferences--a group of schools in the Northeast that includes Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell, Army, & Navy. No one on these teams leaves college early to join the NBA. None of these coaches gets national recognition or endorsement contracts. The young men on these teams play for the love of basketball & of their schools. But every year, the top team from the Patriot League gets into the NCAA Tournament, & though they always lose in the first round, how much they lose by can make a huge difference in the coach's & players' lives. This is a look at American sport at its purest, written with the intensity, drama, & insight into character that have made bestsellers of John Feinstein's books.