While there are some huge basketball fans within the school, world history teacher Ashton Petrisor shows it by keeping his room well decorated.

“I’m just a big basketball fan and I thought it would be super duper cool to have some basketball stuff in the classroom,” Petrisor said.

At the start of March Madness, he took the time to make a giant bracket out of blue painters tape to display for his students.

“(students)… ask me how long it took to make it and if I get frustrated making it, and I tell them yes. It took like a whole day,” he said.

Although the main goal of creating a bracket is to predict who is going to win, Petrisor’s favorite part is the upsets.

“… you’ll have a lower seed and sometimes that beats a higher seed, a better team, that everybody thinks is going to win— it’s kind of cool seeing how far those teams that are not as good can go in this tournament.”

Petrisor has a strong belief that the University of Connecticut’s men’s team will take home the championship title.

“UConn, they are the best, most well rounded team and they have everything, and so if you have everything there’s really no reason for you to lose.”