The March Madness is real

After two days of the NCAA tournament being played, we've already seen some crazy upsets. The biggest one in the tournament came last night as the No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson upset No. 1 Purdue making it only the second time in NCAA tournament history that a No. 16 seed team has beaten the No. 1 seed team. Also, it's safe to say that you can't trust a Virginia school to beat a South Carolina team. Five years to the day when UVA lost to UMBC (03-16-18), UVA lost to Furman. 

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