Is it March already? Iowa basketball gave the home fans at Carver-Hawkeye Arena an early dose of madness after a miraculous comeback victory over Michigan State.

Iowa made five straight 3-pointers to erase what was seemingly an insurmountable 11-point deficit with under a minute remaining in the game. Payton Sandfort tied the game at 101 on a 3-point jumper with just three seconds left on the clock. The Hawkeyes finished the job in overtime, 112-106, to improve to 18-11 on the season.

Naturally, Twitter exploded after seeing what had transpired in Iowa City. ESPN perhaps summed it up best.

David Eickholt of CBS Sports proclaimed that Iowa basketball had definitively earned their invitation to the NCAA Tournament with the stunning victory. Leading bracketologists had the Hawkeyes around the No. 8 or 9 seed. A win should give them plenty of breathing room and can now boost them ahead of the Spartans.

With all the hysteria, it was easy to forget that right before the improbable run commenced Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery engaged in a bizarre staredown with an official during a timeout after earning a technical foul just 30 seconds earlier, per The Athletic's Chris Vannini. The encounter appeared to be yet another famous McCaffery meltdown en route to the team's third-straight loss but instead might have been the catalyst for the epic comeback, according to Dan “Big Cat” Katz of Barstool Sports.

The win will surely go down as one of the greatest regular season victories in program history. It has also raised the bar for the “Big Dance.” An improbable comeback, a near buzzer-beater (by both teams) and crazy antics by a head coach. This game had it all and took fans back to the golden days of college basketball.

Hopefully, it's a harbinger of what's to come.