Basketball is hugely popular in Nigeria and the NBA is the best league – with the best players – in the world. There are always plenty of Nigerian players in the NBA and many of them start off in the American college system first. This is where hoops fans get to see the finest young talent first before they become professional.

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One of the biggest tournaments in all of sports, let alone at NCAA or college level, is the Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, otherwise known as March Madness. This competition brings together the best university teams in the country for a frenetic month of single-elimination game basketball to determine a national champion. That champion in the last two years has been the University of Connecticut Huskies. But can it win three in a row?

With so many school programs playing at NCAA Division I level – and then

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