DC ExtraTime: Tar Heel Madness with Nicky Showtime

From during The Challenge Invasion and after

UNC's 2017 National Championship victory

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The night before Bananas and Cara lost to Darrell and Laurel on Invasion, there was the end to one of the biggest events in American sports. This year might not have brought us as many of the thrills we expect from the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, aside from the upsets we saw the first two weeks.
   But this year did have a worthy champion in a national championship with #1 seeds facing off: North Carolina defeated Gonzaga in a matchup where the focus was on the officials and the fouls that plagued the 2nd half. But as they say, a win is a win and it gave head coach Roy Williams his 3rd national title, as the trophy once again returns to that part of the South known affectionately as Tobacco Road: home to powerhouses UNC, its archrival Duke, NC State and Wake Forest.

   There are four people with ties to the Triangle area of North Carolina -- which if you're not in the know of what that means, it's of the Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville area: Are You The One? Season 2 and AYTO Second Chances castmate Ellie, Real World Portland roommate Jessica, Real World Skeletons castmate and proud dad Jason, and our first ExtraTime subject of this weekend.

Credit: WTVD

For some added spice to this bit, we here like to bring you some scoop here you probably won't get anywhere else: as this Invasion season was filming last fall, those who love doing speculation of who was on this cast had two additional people they thought was on this cast: Dylan from Real World Go Big last year, and Emilee of RW Cancun, two Challenges and and the indie film Blight, which we profiled back in January and has since changed its name from Habit. They were replacements that were on the plane ride to Thailand and were never used, but Em did get that consolation prize to join fellow New Englanders Brittany, Sabrina and CT for that film coming this fall.
   As for the man they call Nicky Showtime, last year we showcased his hilarious YouTube videos and him being on the same Tar Heels track team as a Olympic medalist in the women's pole vault. Him being an alum of Chapel Hill, as evidenced by his graduation picture we've included above, gave Dylan reason to make the trek from where he calls home in Charlotte to Tobacco Road to join fellow UNC students and alumni -- 55,000 of them in all -- to watch the finale of March Madness on Monday night. And thanks to social media, he let everyone in on the madness in Chapel Hill, and the celebrations on Franklin Street the moment the final buzzer sounded. We've embedded the video below, and if you saw his SnapChat, you saw all the celebrations in the streets including bonfires.

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#UNC national champs!!!!! 💵💰💰💴🍻#NCAA #basketball

A post shared by Dylan Moore (Nicky Showtime) (@nickyshowtime) on Apr 4, 2017 at 12:11am PDT

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