The spring season has begun with the most outstanding college sports tournament, March Madness. March Madness is a single-elimination tournament of 68 Division 1 basketball teams competing in seven national championship rounds. The tournament's entertainment is in watching the quality basketball and creating a bracket for various prizes. Sports analysts and fans of different universities usually start by guessing which team will win from the predetermined first games of the tournament. The most significant factor that assists the assumption is the "seed." 

After the First Four games to decide the last four teams in the tournament, that full trims to 64. The 16 teams in each region are then categorized by their "seed," ranging from No. 1 to No. 16. Fans usually use this "seeding" system to create the perfect bracket with an assumption that the higher seed, the greater the possibility of winning. 

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However, in the history of March Madness, there have been countless "upsets." "Upset" is a sports terminology explicitly used during March Madness when an unexpected lower-seed team beats a renowned college or a higher-seed team. Into the first four days of the tournament, there have already been many "upsets" that ruined millions of perfect brackets. For instance, No.1 seed Purdue University, No.2 seed Arizona Wildcats and No.4 seed Virginia Cavaliers have been unceremoniously eliminated, succumbing to 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson, No.15 seed Princeton Tigers, and 13th-seeded Furman Paladins, respectively. The loss of such teams went viral in basketball and was widely announced worldwide. Previously, in the 2022 March Madness, the biggest "upset" was when No. 15 Saint Peter's knocked off No. 2 Kentucky and No. 3 Purdue to become the first 15 seed ever to make the Elite Eight, and much more. 

This win-or-go-home tournament has been the beacon of college basketball. This year's tournament and future tournaments will continuously bring us surprising results. 

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