As part of a yearly, March Madness tradition, all four of the NCAA men’s college basketball teams competing in the final round were represented on the court before gameplay started on Saturday afternoon. The tournament finale takes place Saturday through Monday at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, and includes the teams from the University of North Carolina, Villanova, Duke University, and the University of Kansas.

It’s traditional for students from the participating schools to perform our national anthem together, as a show of good sportsmanship in advance. And another cool part of it this time: all of the singers are also student-athletes:

There was a Villanova swimmer.

Charlie Hinckley from @novaswimming joined student-athletes from the three other participating schools to sing the National Anthem at the Final Four! 👀✌️#GoNova #MFinalFour pic.twitter.com/qMia8u6PXL

— Villanova Athletics (@NovaAthletics) April 2, 2022

UNC had one of their football players, seen here with the school’s director of athletics, Bubba Cunningham.

Great job by Kaimon Rucker from ⁦@UNCFootball⁩ singing the National anthem at the #Final4Head. pic.twitter.com/GFyj8LQ8vP

— Bubba Cunningham (@BubbaUNC) April 2, 2022

Duke had one of its women’s soccer players.

S/O to @DukeWSOC senior Delaney Graham!

Performed the anthem alongside student-athletes from KU, Villanova and UNC. pic.twitter.com/gvpn0IBNYx

— Duke Men’s Basketball (@DukeMBB) April 2, 2022

And Kansas had a golf student-athlete in the quartet.

Get to know Hanna Hawks, a sophomore on the KU women’s golf team, who just represented the Jayhawks in a quartet of student-athletes that performed the national anthem at the Final Four. https://t.co/ldYi0j2Fgn

— The Kansas City Star (@KCStar) April 2, 2022

But on Saturday, as the students sang “The Star-Spangled Banner,” something special happened (at about the :45 mark in the video below), while broadcasting on the big screens inside the arena, that caused the crowd to loudly roar.

A beautiful National Anthem by four student-athletes from the #FinalFour schools pic.twitter.com/fVv6ZWzUII

— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) April 2, 2022

Quite a stirring moment, filled with patriotic pride. And there was another positive sign — no one was kneeling at any point.