Twitter mourns the millions of brackets lost with Wisconsin's upset March Madness win

The day the brackets died.
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Twitter mourns the millions of brackets lost with Wisconsin's upset March Madness win
Villanova Wildcats' Josh Hart during a game in December. Credit: Mitchell Leff/getty images

There's been a great disturbance in the force-of-brackets. As if millions were suddenly thrown in the trash.

Chances are: Your bracket's probably worthless, or at least one-fourth worthless, now that the Wisconsin Badgers took down defending champion Villanova in the second round of the tournament.

Number-eight seed University of Wisconsin came out of nowhere to unseat the top dog 65-62.

College basketball fans gathered on Twitter Saturday to pay their respects for the fallen brackets.

There were a few soothsayers out there as well, a surprising number of them children:

Meanwhile, on Non-Sports Twitter...

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Patrick Kulp is a Business Reporter at Mashable. Patrick covers digital advertising, online retail and the future of work. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in political science and economics, he previously worked at the Pacific Coast Business Times.

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