Kieran Shannon: It'll be tough for Neptune watching the Big Dance in their own hall
STRAIGHT TALK: Neptune coach Colin O'Reilly issues the instructions tho his Energywise Ireland Neptune squad againt DBS Eanna at Neptune Stadium, Cork. O'Reilly is a shrewd coach and must refocus his side for the league campaign. Pic: Jim Coughlan.
Although we’ve all often heard of the Last Dance when it comes to basketball the past couple of years, a more popular term and coveted experience within the sport itself is the Big Dance.
In the States that’s the NCAA tournament, aka March Madness. For the preceding four months 358 different Division One colleges vie and fly all around the country only for them to be whittled down to 68 for a do-or-die, advance-or-go-home blitz of games. Although you want to make it to the sweet 16, elite eight, final Four, the championship match, win the championship itself, just making it to the Big Dance at all is an achievement and subject of celebration all in itself.
