The only true too is the too you believe

​If you're a basketball fan, you now know that the maddest of all March Madness upsets took place last night.

Fairleigh Dickinson beat Purdue. Most analysts are calling it the greatest March Madness upset ever, if not the greatest college basketball upset ever.

One ranking system had Fairleigh Dickenson ranked as the 298th best team in the country yesterday; that same system had Purdue in the top 5.

Fairleigh Dickenson won only 4 games all of last year; they lost a whopping 15 this year 😮.

They didn't win their conference OR their conference tournament - the worst ranked conference in the country by the way - and they were only eligible for the tournament because the team that did win the conference WASN'T eligible for the tournament.

It's quite possible Fairleigh Dickenson is the worst team to ever walk on to the dance floor of March Madness.

And here's the other thing - maybe the BIGGEST thing - in a game that relies so heavily on size, Fairleigh Dickenson is the shortest team in division one basketball.

Surely they were TOO small to even think about matching up with Zach Edey, Purdue's 7 foot 4 inch superstar - the tallest player in Big Ten Conference history - and the player most experts regard as the best basketball player in America.

You know Fairleigh Dickenson heard it for days leading up to the tournament.

Your TOO small.

Your TOO outclassed.

Your TOO undeserving to even be here!!

Who knows how many TOOs they endured leading up to the game.

But here's how many TOOs they chose to believe:

ZERO....

Their coach told them he'd watched Purdue play and he believed they could win the game. So instead of listening to the TOO's, Fairleigh Dickenson chose to listen to their coach.

Because they did, a team many thought could win the championship is going home, and the shortest team in America is still fighting for college basketball's biggest prize.

It has me wondering this morning, how many TOOs do I listen to?

How many do YOU listen to?

Your TOO old.

Your TOO inexperienced.

Your TOO slow.

Your TOO poor.

How many TOOs are standing in your way of taking down what the world around you is calling impossible?

The TOOs standing in your way are the TOOs you choose to believe. It's a fact; every TOO you believe becomes a truth in your life. TOO is an opinion until you believe it and make it a fact.

If you believe you're too old, you are. If you believe you're too slow, you are.

Fairleigh Dickenson didn't believe one single TOO about themselves. And so they march on, in one of the greatest March Madness underdog stories ever.

Only I'm not sure Fairleigh Dickenson is buying this whole underdog story; they are TOO busy winning to believe in it.