Friday was the wildest day in NCAA tournament history

The best $10.8 billion ever spent.

CBS and Turner Sports dropped that astronomical number in 2011 to maintain the television rights for NCAA tournament until 2024.

Friday's action reaffirmed it was money well spent.

The wildest day in March Madness history tipped off at 12:10 p.m ET, and finished at 12:30 a.m ET with the referees waving off Cincinnati's Octavius Ellis' last-second dunk.

Let's recap some of the madness that occurred on an incredible day in college sports history:

• Michigan State, picked on 22 percent of ESPN's 13 million bracket entries as the eventual national title winner, lost to 17-point underdog Middle Tennessee, marking just the eighth time in tournament history that a No. 2 seed lost to a No. 15.
• No. 4 Cal got smoked by No. 13 Hawaii in an 11-point loss. A 13-seed over a 4-seed is big enough news, but the fact the Rainbow Warriors had never won an NCAA tournament game makes it even bigger.
• Seventh-seeded Iowa pulled out a buzzer-beating overtime win on Adam Woodbury's tip-in. Upon further review it appeared the 7-foot-1 center pushed off before making the final basket, but no call was made.
• Wisconsin shot an awful 21 percent from 3-point range, and scored just 47 points, yet somehow won over Pitt. The game set basketball back 70 years with one of the worst-played contests in history, combining for just 90 points. Through the opening round of the 2016 tournament, there have been six teams to outscore that total on their own.
• All hell broke loose in the last two games of the night, first with Northern Iowa's Paul Jesperson banking in a halfcourt shot as time expired to beat Texas. Less than four minutes of real time later, Cincinnati was denied a buzzer-beating win against Saint Joseph's when referees ruled Ellis' dunk came 0.1 seconds after the final gun
• Six double-digit seeds won Friday, adding to the four who were victorious Thursday, setting a new tournament record.

Despite Saturday's slate featuring some intriguing matchups such as Kentucky-Indiana, Yale-Duke, Butler-Virginia, and North Carolina-Providence, there's no way it can live up to the drama of Friday.

Perhaps the day can best be summed up by the always poetic CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein: