Friday night in Detroit

Mike Lopresti:

Can this be happening? Really?

This is no longer reality. This is the Wizard of Oz in short pants. The Lord of the Rings in sneakers.

Davidson 73, Wisconsin 56. Nobody saw this coming from the little school that could. Absolutely nobody.

Davidson has not run out of karma, or nerve, or Stephen Curry feats that make witnesses go wow in the night. By Friday, the Wildcats were supposed to have come back to Earth.

Instead, they’re going to Jupiter. Or somewhere out there. Maybe the Final Four, too.

Remember George Mason? Sure. George Mason eked out a lot of tough victories in its historical run two years ago. But it never put a beat-down on a big-name favorite like this.

“We got a lead on them,” guard Jason Richards would say afterward, “and never looked back.”