In more news involving emails sent our way by faithful DCist readers, today we find that the students and faculty at George Mason University’s History Department are looking to document their university’s surprising run through the NCAA tournament in what they are calling the George Mason Basketball Digital Memory Bank:

Please visit http://hoops.gmu.edu and tell us your experience, or send us your picture, about George Mason University’s unbelievable run in basketball. Be a part of online history!

A bunch of us at George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media have quickly put together this exciting new website. We saw a little populist history in the making and got quickly to work. Now, fans, students, and even the players are becoming a part of history by putting their memories of this amazing run to the Final Four online. Fans around the world are already visiting and seeing pictures, stories, and living history about this basketball event.

You have to give it to Mason students, faculty, administrators and staff — they’re really rallying around the flag in support of their team.