when darren hilliard and jason pinkston started their villanova basketball career the team was 13-19e first season. and now they have come to be the number one seed in the east. >> kind of go through those things in life and going through that year i kind of think it repaired us for this moment being in those situations and kind of going through the 13-19 year was a rough stretch for us and just knowing we made it through. we made it through that tough time and we were able to persevere and come together and show our wisdom on the younger guys now they don't have to go through that same type of year. >> it's great honor being here today just coming from that -- being able to show our experience trick it down to the young mares. >> a couple of big upsets. two 14 seeds beat number three seeds. this georgia state. that's a three with two seconds left. georgia state beats number three baylor. 57-56. needed everyone of those three. iowa state number three seed loses and smu loft to ucla. i mean, upsets. i can't remember the last time a team was even money favored to win the inform caa tou

it's especially hard for the seniors on this team car run hilliard and jason pinkston.illiard kept the team in this one. he had a game high 27 points. they shot 28% from the field in this heartbreaking 71-68 loss to inform c state. >> it's tough. these guys have done so much for me. these guys are my brothers my everything. >> we felt that we had it. we let it slip away at the end but we battleed. they just were the better team today. >> we all had high expectations. we had them all year. we were able to live up the expectations we ran no a good team. definitely disappointed we should keep our heads high because of how well we played this whole year. >> reporter: they did have an unbelievable season. they have just have to deal with this loss right now and coming up later in sports we'll hear from head coach jay wright but right now i'm going to toss it over to david spunt on the villanova campus. >> reporter: lesley a lot of high blood pressure here on the villanova campus tonight. i got to tell you i was watching the game on a big screen at the student union behind me