An excerpt from Jodi Helmer's new book "Protecting Pollinators"

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At first glance, the Wofford Terriers seem like a very specific type of college basketball team. Even if you only watch college basketball in March, you know the one: the biggest fish in a mid-major pond, a styles-make-fights oddball match-up challenge for a major program, maybe even an underdog that enters the tournament at just the spot on the hype cycle where they paradoxically feel like a favorite against a better-known college hoops blueblood. Sometimes these teams win a game or two; most times they don’t. These teams are all different, but they play a similar role in the sprawling broader story of March.

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