People across the country sat down on their couches, turned on the television, and began to binge watch one of the most exciting sporting tournament in the world.

The NCAA’s 78th March Madness Men’s College Basketball Tournament started on Thursday, March 16, and hasn’t yet disappointed with 64 teams from around the country competing for the national title.

The first round was covered over a two-day span with non-stop action, with many upsets such as University of California beating Southern Methodist University while Minnesota lost to Middle Tennessee State.

Thirty-two teams did advance though, including: Villanova, Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida, USC, Baylor, South Carolina, Duke, Gonzaga, Northwestern, West Virginia, Xavier, Florida State, St. Mary’s, Arizona, Kansas, Michigan State, Iowa State, Purdue, Rhode Island, Oregon, Michigan, Louisville, North Carolina, Arkansas, Middle Tennessee State, Butler, Cincinnati, UCLA, Wichita State, and Kentucky.

As the second round came to an end, many peoples’ brackets ended up in the trash.

Massive upsets and intense games put viewers on the edge of their seat. First seed and defending National champions Villanova were upset by Wisconsin, along with basketball power house Duke, who lost to South Carolina.

The March Madness tournament is now down to the Sweet 16 as teams from Wisconsin, Florida, Baylor, South Carolina, Gonzaga, West Virginia, Xavier, Arizona, Kansas, Purdue, Oregon, Michigan, North Carolina, Butler, UCLA, and Kentucky all advance.

Upsets, upsets and more upsets. The Sweet 16 was one for the books. 11th seeded Xavier pulled off a 73-71 win against 2nd seeded Arizona and 7th seeded South Carolina blew out 3rd seeded Baylor by 20 points.

Xavier and South Carolina along with Gonzaga, Kansas, Oregon, North Carolina, and Kentucky move onto the Elite 8.

The Elite 8 was a perfect example of why they add madness to the end of March Madness.

South Carolina came up with another upset defeating Florida to advance to the Final Four for the first time in school history. Gonzaga with their dominant offense knock out Xavier by a hefty margin to also advance. Oregon was the victor as they played 1st seeded Kansas who seemed to have an off night. The game that most of the country tuned into to see was North Carolina versus Kentucky. Kentucky’s multiple last minute threes allowed them to tie the game up with just seconds left in the game. With the ball in North Carolina’s hands, Luke Maye was able to hit a game winning deep two pointer to send them to the Final Four.

The match-ups for the Final Four are South Carolina against Gonzaga and Oregon against North Carolina.

South Carolina’s fairy tale run finally came to an end as Gonzaga defeated them 77-73. Gonzaga’s big men combined for 27 points and helped protect the rim which contributed to the teams win. In a close game, University of North Carolina clinched a spot in the finals. They were able to beat Oregon 77-76 with a huge performance by Kennedy Meeks for UNC. Recording a triple double with 25 points and a career high 14 rebounds.

Gonzaga and North Carolina will match up on Monday, April 3 at 9:20 p.m. The game will take place in Phoenix, Arizona and will broadcast across the country.

After falling to Villanova in the National Championship last year, North Carolina came into the 2017 tournament determined to redeem themselves. That’s exactly what they did.

The University of North Carolina defeated Gonzaga by a a score of 71-65 to bring home the National Championship trophy. The game was tightly called as many players got into major foul trouble early disrupting the flow of the game and the offense each team wanted to run. In the end, Joel Berry’s 22 points helped the team finish something they failed to do last year.