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images]  Thursday, March 31, 2011 VCU stakes claim as all-time
Cinderella  By Pat Forde  VCU's run to the Final Four may be the
most unlikely in the history of the tournament. In 2009, ESPN
published a College Basketball Encyclopedia. My contribution to
the 1,000-plus pages of hoops awesomeness was an essay on
Cinderella.  In it I listed the sweetest 16 Cinderella runs in
NCAA tournament history, revisiting the magic moments of Loyola-
Chicago, North Carolina-Charlotte, Indiana State, George Mason
and a dozen more.  Now I want to rewrite it.  I would like to
include the Butler combo run of the past two tourneys. But most
of all, I want to put Virginia Commonwealth’s current surge at
the top of the list. Nobody has Cinderella street cred like the
Rams.  VCU’s 2011 Final Four rampage is the new glass-slipper
standard by which all others should be measured. It is the all-
timer. Sue me for hyperbole if you wish, but let me make my case
first.  The competit