SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Give those Harvard kids an A-plus in another subject: Bracketbusting 101.
The school known for producing U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices and Nobel Prize winners earned its first NCAA tournament victory Thursday night - a 68-62 upset of No. 3 seed New Mexico - and it didn't feel like a fluke.
Wesley Saunders scored 18 points and Laurent Rivard made five 3-pointers to help the 14th-seeded Crimson pull the biggest surprise of March Madness so far.
Reaction came quickly, and from various corners.
''America, we are sorry for messing up your brackets and also your financial system and everything else,'' tweeted the jokesters at the Harvard Lampoon.
And this from Harvard's most famous hoops alum, Jeremy Lin: ''YYYYYEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!! HARVARD winssss!!! hahahahhah i told you,'' he tweeted shortly after the victory. Read More