Talent and heart rule on the basketball court â?? the teams with the most skill and the players who want it the most tend to win. So itâ??s kind of a crazy exercise to look at who might advance through the bracket of the National Collegiate Athletic Associationâ??s menâ??s basketball tournament with an eye toward anything else but those factors. But this is higher education, after all â?? right? So if you happen to cling even faintly to that antiquated notion that college sports are supposed to be about what happens to students in the classroom, too, maybe, just maybe, itâ??s appropriate to view the NCAA tournament bracket through a slightly different prism.