Sorry, it has been a few days, but boy the excitement is real.

We haven’t seen NCAA tournament excitement on the men’s basketball side of things since 2001, but in case you have completely turned your back on your alma mater, you should know that Frannie Dunphy and the Owls won the Atlantic 10 championship and secured themselves an automatic bid and No. 12 seed in the South region of March Madness.

The Owls will face No. 5 seeded Michigan State all the way in Denver, Colo. No, we don’t know why in Denver or how that is in the South region.

Two fellow Big 5 squads got in, too, on at-large bids. St. Joseph’s got a No. 11 ranking, and Villanova a No. 12. Both are in different tournament regions, so a match up could only happen beyond the Final Four.

Anyone have any tournament memories?