Consider that of the more than 2.5 million brackets submitted to ESPN's Tournament Challenge, only two of survived the opening weekend of the NCAA tourney with a perfect record.
That's what happens when four unheralded teams crash the Sweet Sixteen, as was the case with Davidson, West Virginia, Villanova and Western Kentucky.
Granted; all four of the top seeds survived. But while North Carolina and Kansas cruised through their opening two games, UCLA and Memphis were fortunate to advance.
UCLA needed a overtime as well as clutch performances by Darren Collison and Kevin Love to subdue Texas A&M on Saturday.
Memphis, again showing there's nothing free about them, struggled at the line and to a 77-74 win over Mississippi State yesterday.
Although all four of the top seeds advanced, a pair of No. 2s bit the dust as Davidson shocked Georgetown and West Virginia ousted Duke.
The center of the Upset Universe was Tampa, where – for the first time in tournament history – all four of the lower seeded teams won their first-round games, producing second-round match-ups involving No. 12 Villanova vs. No. 13 Siena and No. 12 Western Kentucky versus No. 13 San Diego.
So the road to the Final Four is already littered with upset victims. Let the madness continue.
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