The madness of March has stepped up its game this year with major upsets, heartbreak and amazing buzzer-beating victories. Every year, people around the country print out brackets and try to correctly pick the teams to avoid the madness of the Cinderella teams.

 
The goal is to pick the most correct teams for your office pool, or one of the ESPN apps. Everyone strives for that elusive perfect bracket, but every year there are major upsets that bust everyone’s bracket.

 
This year did not disappoint, not one bit.

 
Many people had the Michigan State Spartans in the Final Four. Some even had them in the championship and or winning the whole thing. No one would have imagined that Middle Tennessee State would start the game on a 15-2 run and continue to dominate the rest of the game on the way to a 90-81 victory. The score doesn’t even show how dominant they really were the whole game.
In my bracket, my champion Kansas Jayhawks are still in it with a good chance of making it to the Final Four. South Dakota State, from my home state, almost pulled off the upset of fifth-seed Maryland, before having a couple costly turnovers at the end of the game.

 
There have been three buzzer beaters so far in the first weekend, tying the record for most in a single tournament. UNI had one of the most impressive, with a half-court shot to beat Texas, but then had a huge meltdown in the game against Texas A&M. Up 10 with 28 seconds left, and they had the ball, UNI gave the lead up and eventually lost in overtime.

 
Coming into the tournament, there wasn’t really a dominant team like there has been in the past like a Kentucky or Duke usually is. It seemed like every time a team would be number one this season, they would always get beat, which led to there being more than five different teams at number one.

 
For the first time in a while, the Sweet 16 features 15 teams from the major conferences, and then Gonzaga impressively made it as well. All four number-one seeds made it past the second round as well for the first time since 2012, but not as easily as everyone thought.

 
UNC had to make a second-half comeback to win their game. Oregon only won by 5 against Saint Joseph’s, a very good 8th seed. Kansas got a scare from UConn, but managed to pull away at the end, and Virginia had a dog fight with Butler before making some important free throws at the end.

 
The ACC is the first conference to ever have six teams make the Sweet 16 in the same season. Now we’ve got a couple days of rest before the Sweet 16 starts up Thursday and Friday.
Hopefully, it continues where it left off on Sunday.