Big East busts the bracket, Cheney's Hermann moment
What happened to the bracket?
At least the statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium still gazed out over the rural Pennsylvania landscape when the bus carrying West Virginia made its way out of town Saturday afternoon. Luckily for the locals, it turned out the visitors were only interested in reducing the NCAA Tournament bracket to rubble.
In a weekend uprising as swift as it was surprising, the Big East seized control of this year's NCAA Tournament when three of its teams upset No. 1 seeds and advanced to next weekend's quarterfinals. In a matter of 17 hours stretching from Friday night through Saturday afternoon, West Virginia, Notre Dame and Connecticut brought the bracket to heel in an unprecedented manner.