💬 Quoted… “It was a surreal moment.”

Louisiana State University won its first women’s NCAA basketball championship in program history last night, defeating Iowa 102-85 in the highest-scoring women’s title game ever. The LSU Tigers became just the third No. 3-seed to win the women’s championship, and the first since 1997.

• More than 350,000 fans attended this year’s women’s March Madness, setting a new all-time record.

🏀 Stat(s) of the Day: This year’s March Madness has indeed been mad – both on the men’s and women’s side. Quick! Prepare thyself for an eye-popping number: 191; which is the amount of points scored in this year’s NCAA Tournament by Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (31.8 PPG), setting a new all-time March Madness record for both men and women. And on the men’s side: San Diego State guard Lamont Butler made history in his team’s 72-71 victory over Florida Atlantic on Saturday by hitting the first true buzzer beater – aka a last-second shot that turned a loss into a come-from-behind victory. Watch it here.

🤯 Did You Know?... Since 1967, the official measurement of a second has been defined in terms of the radiation frequency at which atoms of the element cesium change from one state to another. Cue George Carlin on the concept of time.

📖 Worth a Read: It’s a Really Weird Time to Be an Umpire → (NY Times Magazine)