Looking for Cinderella? Check Out the Davidson Wildcats

That's right, the Davidson Wildcats—who struck fear into Maryland before losing 82-70 in last year's first round—could be wearing this year's Cinderella slipper. The Wildcats would have been on the proverbial bubble of teams, but they took matters out of the NCAA's hands by finishing off a perfect 23-0 streak through the Southern Conference and defeating Elon in the tourney final.

By now, Charlotte native and leading scorer Stephen Curry who some how escaped the scholarship offers of all the ACC schools mainly due to his teenage and less than physical looks is being recognized as one of the best players in the country, and rightfully so. He averaged 25.1 points per game and shot 43.8 percent from 3-point range. He's fine inside the arc, too, making 48.6 percent from the field and 89.8 percent from the line. Don't be fooled this is more than one man team though.

Davidson hung within 12 points of three final four opponents in UNC, UCLA, and Duke, so they are definitely battle tested. That was before they took dominance to a new level, smothering the SoCon like they were a Top 10 team.

The Wildcats should be considered to make a run in the tournament partally due to point guard Jason Richards. He averaged 12.6 points and a nation-leading eight assists per game. He also showed he could play with the best when he averaged 13.0 points and 8.7 assists in the three games vs. UCLA, Duke and North Carolina. Davidson showed in early-season nonconference close calls against those three teams that it can play with the nation's best.

The first victim should go down right down the road from the Davidson campus in nearby Raleigh, NC in fellow Mid-Major Gonzaga. Gonzaga would be tipping off around approximately 9 AM pacific time against the Wildcats, having journeyed all the way from Spokane, Washington. We all know this scenario from last year when Stanford played terribly in it's first round matchup under similar circumstances.

After that who knows against probably Georgetown? Georgetown has shown it has difficulty with guard oriented teams such as Villanova. In one of the Nova games Roy Hibbert was held scoreless. The game also ended on a controversial foul call that basically handed the Hoyas the game.

After that the Wildcats should face USC, another huge sleeper which would be a great matchup between O.J. Mayo and Stephen Curry. Either way Davidson could make a George Mason type run through this tournament.

The Wildcats didn't lose a game to a Southern Conference team in the regular season or in the conference tournament. The only other team to do that this season was Memphis in Conference USA.