It has all the makings of a classic hoops tale—bracket predictions, fierce competition, and a trash-talking title run from a Cinderella team. But in this tale, the basketballs are books and the hoopsters are a team of pumped-up students at Tuskegee Airmen Global (TAG) Academy in Atlanta, Georgia. Underfunded and underestimated, TAG Academy students set out to prove they could read with the best, then round-by-round, knocked off each of their challengers in the district’s annual Spring Reading Madness tournament.
