Kevin Cowherd is the New York Times best-selling author of Hothead and five other baseball novels for young readers written with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. Cowherd’s last work of non-fiction, When the Crowd Didn’t Roar: How Baseball’s Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope, was praised in the Times’ 2019 Summer Reading Issue as one of the five best new sports books. Cowherd was an award-winning sport columnist and features writer for the Baltimore Sun for 32 years. He has also written for Men’s Health, Parenting and Baseball Digest magazines.
U Must Be Cinderella!: Inside College Basketball’s Greatest Upset Ever and the Audacious School That Pulled It Off is Cowherd’s latest work of non-fiction. When little-known UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) takes the floor against mighty Virginia in the first round of the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the whole world knows the Retrievers will lose. They’re 20 1/2-point underdogs. ESPN’s Power Basketball Index gives them a 1.5 per cent chance of winning. They’re a lowly 16-seed going against the overall no. 1-seed. And a 16 has never beaten a 1. Never, ever.
U Must Be Cinderella!: Inside College Basketball’s Greatest Upset Ever and the Audacious School That Pulled It Off is now available for purchase through Apprentice House Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other booksellers.
You can find more information about Kevin Cowherd and his work on his website.