--- description: Crying Villanova piccolo player tells Jimmy Fallon why she was sobbing at the March Madness game against NC State title: Here's the Real Reason the Villanova Piccolo Player Sobbed on National TV image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's the Real Reason the Villanova Piccolo Player Sobbed on National TV  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Mar 24, 2015 3:45 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Mar 24, 2015 3:45 PM CUT On _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_ Monday night, the late-night host interviewed the young woman who became a meme over the weekend when a Jumbotron caught her crying while playing the piccolo after NC State defeated Villanova in the March Madness tournament. “My dad was at the game, and I didn’t want him to see me crying, but then it turned into, like, everyone saw me crying,” Roxanne Chalifoux said, prompting Fallon to burst out laughing. But the point of the segment was not only to laugh at Chalifoux, but also to let her play the piccolo with the Roots and give her a goodie bag of ice cream for her dorm and two tickets to Taylor Swift’s world tour (which Fallon claimed was a gift from the pop star herself). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3756035/villanova-piccolo-girl-the-roots-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3756035/villanova-piccolo-girl-the-roots-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Here's the Real Reason the Villanova Piccolo Player Sobbed on National TV","datePublished":"2015-03-24T15:45:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:57.794Z","description":"She also got to play with The Roots","url":"https://time.com/3756035/villanova-piccolo-girl-the-roots-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3756035/villanova-piccolo-girl-the-roots-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Here's the Real Reason the Villanova Piccolo Player Sobbed on National TV"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Late-Night Highlight: Michelle Obama Does 'Ew!' With Jimmy Fallon","description":"The First Lady joined Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell for some 'Ew!' talk, and she even brought chips. Well, kale chips.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6b08MrLm/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-21T12:53:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6b08MrLm.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3756035/villanova-piccolo-girl-the-roots-jimmy-fallon/","duration":"PT54S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3756035/villanova-piccolo-girl-the-roots-jimmy-fallon/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```