March Madhouse

Turning to only the second biggest sport in the nation right now other than Full Contact Politics, the NCAA basketball tourney is under way and it's been a hell of a ride.  Kentucky, Baylor, and K State are in, Villanova, New Mexico and shockingly enough #1 Kansas are all toast.  The rest of the Sweet 16 will be decided today with Duke, Syracuse, W. Virginia and Ohio State looking to get in, and locally Xavier's looking to upset Pitt to meet Kansas State, and Cornell's playing Wisconsin for the right to take on the UK Wildcats.

But nothing was bigger than yesterday's Northern Iowa shocker over Kansas.

Leading by one against the colossus of the bracket, Ali Farokhmanesh stood at the 3-point line, no one around. The prudent play? Pull it out, burn some clock.

Not a chance.

Taking his shot at history, Farokhmanesh let fly from the wing.

Swish!

The biggest upset in a tournament full of them was done. Northern Iowa had taken down mighty Kansas.

Playing with poise down the stretch and getting another big 3-pointer from Farokhmanesh, Northern Iowa pulled off one of the biggest NCAA upsets in years by knocking No. 1 overall seed Kansas from the bracket with a program-defining 69-67 win on Saturday.

''If anybody's going to shoot that shot, I want it to be Ali,'' UNI's Jake Koch said. 

America will remember how to spell "Farokhmanesh" in the future, I think.  Rock, Shocked, No Jayhawk.