March Madness Morning After: Villanova Moves On, Buddy Hield Moves Up, And The UConn Women Are Shiva

This feature is part of VICE Sports' March Madness coverage.

Villanova and Oklahoma are going to the Final Four. Kansas and Oregon are heading home. As the 2016 NCAA men's basketball tournament rolls on, let's look back at the night that was.

I thought Kansas was the best team in the country before the Jayhawks lost to Villanova, and I still think they're best. There's a good argument that Villanova, Virginia and North Carolina are better than Kansas—the KenPom.com statistical ratings would agree for two of those teams— but I'm convinced that the Jayhawks would win a 10-game series against those three teams due to their depth and balance.

But the beauty of the one-loss-and-done NCAA Tournament is that the best team doesn't always win. Just as upsets don't mean teams were seeded poorly, winning the National Championship doesn't make you the best team.

Last year, Kentucky was the undisputed best team in the country, having lost only one game all season—in the Final Four. If you replayed the same tournament 10 times, the Wildcats would be the champions more often than not. But in a 68-team tournament, with teams having to win six straight games against increasingly difficult competition in order capture the title, it's very likely that the laws of randomness will kick in and knock the best team out. The more times you make a team defend its status as best in the country, the more likely it is to lose.

According to KenPom, the best statistical team in the country has only won the National Championship in two of the past five years.

So rather than beat up Kansas' Bill Self for his supposed postseason failures or get into an argument about which team is truly better—an argument that can only be solved by statistics and hypotheticals—enjoy the randomness of the NCAA Tournament and cheer for chaos.

Buddy Hield did Buddy Hield things again on Saturday, proving that once again he is the best player in the country and the runaway favorite for national player of the year. Hield scored an incredible 37 points for Oklahoma in its 80-68 win over Oregon, going 8-for-13 from beyond the three-point arc.

Most of those shots were just unfair:

Buddy Hield made 8 threes today. That's a lot. — NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness)March 27, 2016

Hield came back to college to try to improve his draft stock and make a Final Four. Mission accomplished on both fronts.

Even without Hield, Oklahoma is a good team. Isaiah Cousins and Jordan Woodard are both deadly three-point shooters, while Khadeem Lattin is one of the Big 12's best centers and Ryan Spangler is the ultimate inside-out threat. OU plays like the Golden State Warriors, and the Warriors can also provide a blueprint for how Hield can be used in the NBA.

Scouts will question Hield's fit in the pros, but he is the best shooter in college basketball since Steph Curry, whose fit scouts also questioned. I think Hield will be a great pro, just like he is a great college player, and he's proving it with an incredible NCAA Tournament run.

The common refrain with Villanova is that it can't win unless it hits its threes. Well, the Wildcats completely busted that theory in beating Kansas while shooting just 22 percent from beyond the arc—13 percentage points below their season average.

But looking at the fuller picture of Villanova's season, we should have seen that coming. The Wildcats are actually only the 141st-best team in the country at three-pointers, but they rank third nationally in two-point percentage and second in free throw percentage. Sure, Ryan Arcidiacono, Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson can shoot threes, but what makes Villanova so dangerous is that everyone can shoot pretty well from anywhere on the floor.

Those guards, and forward Kris Jenkins, love to drive to the rim, where they're very good at finishing, and also very good at getting fouled. Given that Villanova is so good scoring either in the paint or at the free throw line, the Wildcats know they're going to get points on nearly every possession.

On a good shooting day, Villanova's offense is legitimately unstoppable. On a bad shooting day, the Wildcats are good enough to beat Kansas. That makes them incredibly difficult to defend.

The UConn women continued their destructive march toward a seemingly inevitable national title on Saturday with a 98-38 win over Mississippi State in the Sweet Sixteen. A 60-point win! In the Sweet Sixteen!

It made sense that the Huskies beat No. 16 seed Robert Morris by 52 and even No. 9 seed Duquesne by 46. But Mississippi State is a No. 5 seed, and not exactly a lightweight. The Bulldogs just took down No. 4 seed Michigan State and they were ranked No. 15 in the country in the AP Poll.

And UConn won by more than double the amount of points that Mississippi State scored.

It probably could have been worse. The Huskies led 61-12 at halftime and probably could have found a way to win by 100. That's par for the course for this program:

Since a 2013 loss to Notre Dame, UConn's women are 119-1. All 119 wins have been by double-digits. — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter)March 26, 2016

Even the John Wooden-era UCLA teams didn't dominate like UConn is right now. There has never been a more dominant team in any major sport.

Girl from UCONN just yelled out 'AND 1 HOE' as she got the bucket. Score is 81-18. Most savage thing I've ever seen.

— yung facts (@mynameisclay)March 26, 2016

As always: you're welcome, America.