With eight games the next two nights -- the best two nights of March Madness in this opinion -- here are eight things to love, loathe or learn about the Sweet 16:
1. Sister Jean will get plenty of airtime Friday when Loyola (Chicago) plays Nevada. It's deserved. The 98-year-old nun and team chaplain was all smiles in Dallas as the Ramblers won twice at the buzzer. The NCAA prefers stories about smiling nuns to ones about FBI wiretaps, so she feels like a nice upgrade.
2. Elijah Thomas, 6-9 center from Lancaster, got on the floor for eight games as a freshman at Texas A&M in 2015-16.