Reflecting on the 2017 NCAA Tournament

After another fun NCAA tournament, I decided to construct a list of superlatives (in no particular order) to summarize all of the madness.

Biggest disappointment(s): The ACC's performance as a whole - Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Miami (Fl.), Florida State, Notre Dame, Virginia, Louisville, and Duke, the Pitino family's early exits in the tournament, lack of upsets in the first round, Villanova, Marquette, Miami (Fl.), Maryland, Providence blowing a 17-point lead against USC in the First Four, Matthew Fisher-Davis costing Vanderbilt their chance to get to the round of 32, Kansas in their Elite 8 matchup vs. Oregon

Biggest surprise(s): Florida, Michigan, South Carolina, Michigan State, Xavier, Rhode Island, USC

Biggest officiating mistake(s): The referees missed a call in the Gonzaga-Northwestern game when a Bulldog player blocked the ball by putting his hand through the basket, which turned into a technical foul on Northwestern's Chris Collins.

Oregon's Dillon Brooks drew a game-changing charge on E.C. Matthews with under 2 minutes to go, in which Brooks slid right under Matthews.

Biggest beneficiaries of geography: South Carolina, Florida, Baylor, Arizona, Butler, Iowa State, Kansas, Gonzaga

Biggest victims of geography: Duke, Louisville, Rhode Island

Teams that showed that they were overseeded: Louisville, Florida State, Minnesota, Virginia, Creighton, Dayton

Teams that showed that they were underseeded: Oregon, Michigan, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Wichita State, Rhode Island, Xavier, USC, Middle Tennessee

Best shot(s) of the tournament: Chris Chiozza vs. Wisconsin, Luke Maye vs. Kentucky

Best bench celebrations: Rhode Island

Best quote: "They can't calculate heart, will to win, toughness, desire... they can't put that into a formula." - Wisconsin's Nigel Hayes

Congratulations to the 2017 NCAA men's basketball Division 1 champions, the North Carolina Tar Heels.