Every year Cinderella captures our hearts in the NCAA Tournament. They begin fittings for their glass slippers in November (and December), though. They Do Not Come From Nowhere introduces you to the teams that will be busting brackets nationwide come March.Western Kentucky is blessed with one of the country's best scorers in senior guard Courtney Lee. He's got a career 17 point per game average for the Hilltoppers, led them to 60 wins in his first three seasons and is a good bet to be the Sun Belt's player of the year this season. What he hasn't done, however, is take the team to the NCAA Tournament. He hurt his wrist before last season's conference tourney and the Hilltoppers lost in the semis.
While Lee is going to be a key to any tournament run for WKU, coach Darrin Horn had to be impressed by his team's win against Nebraska yesterday. They won 69-62 in overtime despite a hellish 4-of-16 from the floor by Lee, thanks in large part to their other senior guards Tyrone Brazelton and Ty Rogers. Brazelton hit a three with 34 seconds to play and Rogers scored 11 points, including three threes, to help ease the pain of Lee's rough night.
