It's all in the Draw

Updated standings are HERE.

Quite the heart-warming story emerging as Syracuse parlays NCAA sanctions into a low seed that opens a path to the Elite 8.  Quick: name someone, anyone, on the teams that they've beaten.  And use their REAL names!  Answers that don't count:

1. The white kid who transferred from Kentucky
2. The Russian kid whose dad played for the Trailblazers.

Not often a team's "upset" that sparked an Elite 8 run was the win over.....Dayton.

Speaking of "not often", well, it's not often a team wins twice after trailing with fewer than 90 seconds to go & the ball in the hands of the other team's best player. But Notre Dame has! Whoa.  Talk about putting the luck in the luck of the Irish.  

The Elite 8 includes two teams who were not ranked in the top 25 of the final poll. And who got this far by playing a combined 0 games against teams that were ranked in the Top 25 of the final poll. It's almost like the VPA seeded this tournament.