Curry is the gold standard for any singular player who has Cinderella ambitions. No star has captured the collective imagination like Steph did back in 2008, and it's unlikely that anyone will again. But of this year's crop of players, Stirtz is the one who has the best chance.

Fewer than a million perfect brackets remained on ESPN and just over a million were left on the NCAA's platform midway through the first day of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. ESPN's perfect bracket tracker listed 806,

8-seeds have gone on incredible runs through the NCAA Tournament in the past, and even though the road is quite difficult, knocking out a No. 1 in Round 2 can give a team the confidence– and the clear path– it needs to march all the way to the Final Four.