Posted on 03/16/2018 9:02:42 PM PDT by rdl6989
Before Friday, a No. 16 seed had never beaten a No. 1 seed, much less a No. 1 overall seed. They were 0-135. But the University of Maryland-Baltimore County -- yes, the little-known UMBC Retrievers -- proved even the longest of odds aren't totally insurmountable.
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I would love to see some of these alleged students compete in a science bowl, a history "jeopardy"-like contest, or even a spelling bee.
kinda weird...couple of hours ago i was thinking to myself that eventually this is gonna happen...then boom..it happened.
I figured it had to happen someday but I never thought the 16 would win in a blowout.
I told someone, I think last year but it might have been the year before, that this would happen eventually — probably within the next decade. We’re approaching 40 years of 16 seeds and I estimated 2 upsets every 100 years.
However, I expected such a game to be a very close foul-fest OT game where the 1 seed lost players late and the 16 seed was shooting out of their minds. Never dreamed either of the 2 wins every 100 years would be a blowout!
Obamao always chalked it the whole way through when he revealed his brackets. There is no doubt he had them winning it all!
>>UVA was also the victim of what’s considered the biggest upset in college basketball history, in 1982, against Chaminade.
True, but they probably would have won it all that year had they not lost to NC State by 1 in the Reg. final. That was a game easily forgotten. This won’t be.
I just had the unpleasant task of looking at his bracket at obama.org. He had Virginia losing to Michigan State in the final.
I had UVA losing to UNC in the Final Four, then Kansas beating UNC for the title.
Pomeroy ratings (prior to tonight): U Va: #1 - absolute top-rated in the country; UMBC: #188, absolute lowest rank in the entire NCAA tournament.
It wasn’t just a #16 beating a #1 - it was more like a #64 beating a #1.
I’m watching the game now as recorded. Seems like nobody gave UMBC a chance because the analysts said UMBC would lose easily before the game. I hope I can see the expressions of the crew at the studio afterwards.
The Chaminade loss is now the 2nd Biggest Upset.
Respect....
As a Jayhawk, March is always fun for me. I don’t expect them to go to the final most years, including this one but I have a good time.
My brother is a K-State Wildcat.
There is not a lot of love lost between KU and K-State. KU vs Missouri was always bigger for KU fans but in all sports< K-State loves to get KU.
This goes back to the days when KU’s mediocre program in football always beat K-State’s terrible football program. 50s and 60s.
During that time they were both good in basketball. The last 30 years KU has been a roundball elite program with plenty to crow about.
Anyway, the last 20 years my brother an I text back and forth during both teams games and especially when we play each other and the last ten years we now root for each others team.
Guess who does not have to play Virginia? Right, K-State now gets to see if the Vermont defeat and the Virginia defeat have sucked all the adrenaline out of UMBC.
Since she would prefer to visit Chicago rather more than Miami, she picked the Chicago team. No thought at all about the ranking of these two teams in the bracket.
After the first day she appears to be kicking hiney !!
Not all trash. My DH, and 3 of my kids went to the different schools
at UVA, and they are all conservatives.
Here’s hoping she likes Chicago better than Knoxville.
The sad part about the South Region, besides UVa losing,is that Arizona in the South,also lost via upset. And, if you’re a college hoops fan, which means you do not Kentucky, but now, it doesn’t look like there is a team in the South Region that can stop Kentucky from getting to the final four.
Woof! The Cavaliers think of themselves as the elite of the elites, on a par with Harvard and Yale. UMBC is probably no more than a community college full of yokels barely scraping by enough to earn a degree.
And it wasn’t like it was won on a buzzer-beater either. This was a 20-point stomping.
Reminds me of how my sister would bust up our heavily-researched quinellas at the horse track by selecting "the pretty horse".
I saw that news when I still had time to change my bracket, but didn’t thinking that wouldn’t be much of a factor Who knew.
“I hope I can see the expressions of the crew at the studio afterwards.”
Now I’m wishing I’d stayed up to watch the game just to see/hear Charles Barkley’s studio outburst on this.
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