At some point, usually around junior year of high school, someone will ask your teenager the question that sounds perfectly reasonable… but is actually a little ridiculous: “So…what do you want to do with your life?”

March is “mad” for plenty of reasons—final admissions decisions rolling in, the slow tease of spring, brackets getting busted—but here’s a twist most people don’t think about: A deep NCAA tournament run can actually make a college harder to get into.