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...Villanova pulled one of the great upsets in sports history. And with 'nova back in the Final Four for the first time since then, we think this is a good time to take a trip in the wayback machine.

a lead at some point in the game, unlike their male counterparts. The Wildcat men weren't really even competitive in their NCAA tournament loss to Kansas in the Sweet 16.

And the last Philadelphia school standing is... Villanova. The women (17-15, 5-11) won their WNIT opening round game against American on a buzzer-beating rebound-and-putback by Duke transfer Laura Kurz. The Wildcats then went on the road and beat Wisconsin in round two. They're now in the WNIT Sweet Sixteen, and face Colorado in Boulder tomorrow night. Meanwhile, the Villanova men (22-12, 9-9) are the last local team standing in the Big Dance after Temple went down to Michigan State and St. Joe's lost to Oklahoma in their respective first-round matchups. Villanova, on the other hand, upset Clemson in round one, and then whooped up on would-be Cinderellas Siena in the second round. Next up for the Wildcats, a Friday night meeting with top-seeded Kansas. Let's hope Villanova's illogical season continues and the Wildcats turn in a repeat performance of their last meeting with Kansas, in 2005, when they upset the then-#2 Jayhawks by shooting the lights out of the building from behind the arc. Game on.

So it's everyone's favorite time of the college basketball year: March Madness. That time of the year when everyone is a college hoops expert and every tournament pool you enter is guaranteed to be won by your buddy's girlfriend who picked her brackets based entirely on which school's color scheme she liked more in a head-to-head match-up. So in case you've been living under a rock for the last few days, here's what's up with the local teams in this crazy season.

The Drexel men (12-20, 5-14) are officially toast after being bounced from the CAA tournament in the first round by Delaware. Fortunately, the women (18-11, 13-5) are still alive. They ended their regular season with a win over Georgia State, and now the Dragons have a first-round bye in the upcoming CAA tournament. On Friday night, they'll play the winner of Thursday night's Towson-Hofstra game.

Yes, you read the headline right -- it was a pretty good night for Philadelphia basketball in the NBA Draft. Not as good as it could have been, but at the moment, we aren't complaining.