This March Madness, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is America's favorite sports mom

She's a good sports mom.
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Sam Laird
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This March Madness, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is America's favorite sports mom
She's a good sports mom. Credit: AP/REX/Shutterstock

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is about to be America's favorite college hoops fan.

Not that we're complaining, mind you. This is off to a fantastic start.

Louis-Dreyfus' son, Charlie Hall, plays basketball as a walk-on reserve for Northwestern University. (This, by the way, is why she got caught in a total mom moment at a Northwestern game last week, but on with our current story.)

Northwestern on Sunday was selected to participate in its first-ever NCAA Tournament -- a.k.a. March Madness, a.k.a. what college hoops fans call "The Big Dance." Louis-Dreyfus mined her past playing Elaine Benes on Seinfeld to post this absolutely perfect reaction tweet.

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The dance -- get it?

But her son has an important addendum, via Yahoo Sports writer Matt Fortuna.

Northwestern is seeded eighth in the West Region. The Wildcats face ninth-seeded Vanderbilt on Thursday, with a likely date against top-seed Gonzaga awaiting the winner.

Hopefully Northwestern can hang around and dance a while -- because we're not above any excuse to revisit Elaine's old moves.

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Sam Laird

Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.


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