Some say success is the sweetest revenge and the ultimate victory you can achieve over your enemies. If that’s the case, Bob Huggins must be enjoying the unparalleled sweetness of eating black forest chocolate cake like everyday’s his birthday. After pulling off a second-round upset win over Duke, Coach Huggins guided the West Virginia Mountaineers to the Sweet 16 where they’ll face the third seeded Xavier Musketeers tonight at 7:10. Three years removed from a heated, highly-publicized dismissal from Cincinnati University, hate it or love it Huggins is now on top, and he’s going to make sure his program keeps shining like a solar eclipse.
 
 Huggins was an excellent coach long before he decided to patrol the sidelines of his alma mater. In 26 seasons as a head coach, Huggins has compiled 616 victories and 11 conference championships. Huggins resuscitated a lifeless Cincinnati program that hadn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1976, when he took over in 1989 and restored its rich basketball tradition. Huggins was able to attract All-Americans like Nike Van Exel and Danny Fortson, and Player of the Year winners Kenyon Martin and Steve Logan. Huggins was the architect of a renovation process that resulted in the Bearcats winning 10 consecutive conference titles, making 14 straight NCAA Tournament appearances, and two stops at the Elite 8 and a Final Four trip in 1992.

 After a mundane Thursday, with all the top seeds advancing, the past three days have been full of all the madness we’ve come to love and expect from the NCAA Tournament. Tampa Bay was home to a historic feat as all four lower seeds (#12 Villanova and Western Kentucky and #13 seeds Siena and San Diego) won their games at the same site for the first time in Tourney history. National title-contending powerhouse programs Connecticut, Georgetown and Duke each got bounced in the opening weekend. There were explosive scoring displays, and spectacular last-second game-winning shots.

 In honor of the first weekend, I’ve compiled a list of the biggest upset, top game-changing performer, most scintillating showstopper, most dramatic game and most clutch game-winning shot. And yeah, my predictions about Temple, St. Mary’s and South Alabama were off, but that’s alright cause Siena and Davidson held me down very nicely. Let’s get to it y’all.

The brackets are finally set, the 64 most worthy participants (ahem, sorry Arizona State and Virginia Tech) in the country have been chosen and the Big Dance is about to get crackin. The definitive heavyweights, like North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas, Memphis and Duke are the prohibitive favorites, but there’s a slew of underdogs waiting to come derail title aspirations. Who’s going to be this year’s George Mason? Here’s a list of unheralded squads looking to do damage and knock the big dawgs off. Unlike Natalie Cole, they don’t have love on their minds, they’re thinking upsets.