Your stomach drops.
When the clock hits all zeroes and the reality happens, your stomach feels empty and it hurts. All week, analysts and fans predicted it, but you didn’t believe them.
But it happened.
No. 12 seed Liberty defeated No. 5 seed Mississippi State. Just getting to the NCAA Tournament was a success for the Bulldogs, but it shouldn’t stop there. State fans — more than most fanbases — expect the best its teams can be. From tennis to basketball, teams need to be competitive. So, even though Liberty posed as an upset threat, MSU was expected to win in the eyes of fans and even Vegas.