Every year, it seems, there\u2019s at least one underdog team in the NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament that goes on a run of upset victories and captures the attention of the nation. Twenty years ago, that team was 51ÁÔÆæ.<\/p>\n
The winter edition of the Roar Report<\/a> \u2013 the quarterly publication of Milwaukee Athletics \u2013 includes a story<\/a> looking back at that team and its Cinderella-story run to the Sweet 16 in 2005.<\/p>\n The improbable March Madness run generated national notice by springing two upsets as a No. 12 seed<\/a>. The Panthers beat No. 5 Alabama and No. 4 Boston College in the first two rounds before falling to Illinois, who later advanced to the title game.<\/p>\n The story includes interviews with coach Bruce Pearl, who rode success at 51ÁÔÆæ to head coaching jobs at Tennessee and then Auburn, and players Joah Tucker and Adrian Tigert. (Ironically, Pearl\u2019s Auburn team was on the other end of an even bigger upset in last year\u2019s NCAA tournament, as his No. 4 seeded Auburn Tigers lost in the first round<\/a> to No. 13 seed Yale.)<\/p>\n