As you may have heard, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is currently happening. You'd be surprised at how many of the schools involved have animal mascots; then again, maybe you wouldn't, because animals are great and way more entertaining than "Musketeers" or "Fighting Irish" or "Hoosiers" or whatever. (Tradition! Ha.)

With such a wealth of competition taking place, we at BuzzFeed Sports thought we'd spin March Madness around slightly. We're calling it the Sweetest 16, and it's all about the animals these teams are named after. Because not every team that made the real Sweet 16 has an animal mascot, we goosed the field a bit, sliding some teams into our competition that lost in real life. (We did maintain original regions, though.)

IT'S ON.