"....hey don't blame me,Daddy was doing this in the TV room..."
Posted on 03/16/2018 10:51:19 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
UMBC made sports history on Friday night by becoming the first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. The America East champions pulled off a shocking 74-54 upset over No. 1 seed Virginia in the South Region.
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UVa was the loser in the 2 worst defeats delivered by a lower ranked team? 8>)
Brilliant analysis! Of course, none of those kids were alive yet when the program was terminated . . .
UMBC lost to ALBANY 83-39 earlier this year. This is close to Francis Ouimet territory (the true greatest upset in US sports history). Miracle on Ice is a tad over-rated when you look back and see how well so many of those Americans did in their NHL careers, that 1980 team was a LOT MORE talented than we appreciated at the time since they were so young.
In 1985, the last year of no 3-point shots in college b-ball, Montana State University (#16) lost to Duke (#1) by 2 points.
They had been ahead the entire game until the last few minutes.
More than half of their shots were from outside the three point line...
"....hey don't blame me,Daddy was doing this in the TV room..."
Checked in with 10+ left in the 2nd. UVA down by 11. No big deal, so I thought. Wow!
Also, ‘The key player for UMBC in the victory was a 5’7”, 150 pound point guard’ and BOTH parents graduated from UVA.
I really don’t follow bassetbowel. To show you how little time I spend on this insanity I thought UMBC was a bank.
UMBC shot over 54% from the field to UVA’s while out shooting UVA 50% to 18% from the three. UMBC shot 71% from the line against 50% and out rebounded UVA 33 to 22 to include a 29 to 17 edge in defensive rebounds giving UVA far fewer second chances. UMBC was also getting better shots displaying 16 assists to 5.
UMBC whipped them in almost every offensive category and blew them out in the second half with better conditioning. This is why selecting the teams to compete in tournaments like this is way too much politics and not enough talent. But what’s even worse, how many small division teams are still out there that can play just as well if not better than UMBC that are at home watching it on TV while a number of big schools with less talent are making the money for their college so they can remain big and the little schools stay small?
Last year, Gonzaga for their wins caught $8,558,920 listed starting at over $272K a game from the fund. And that’s one team. Kind of makes you wonder who’s getting the big money as it is shared, doesn’t it?
rwood
Glorious dose of schadenfraude for all the butt hurt going down in Charlotesville today!
“Look it up.”
You just said all I would need to know didn’t you?
Xcellent Point.
That little white guard is to blame. Must be a gun toting White Nationalist
I’d love to see four little or unknown schools in the final! But now the higher ranked teams will not take any opponent lightly, as it appears Virginia did.
March Madness is back
Baltimore County MD, half the team is white? Have we entered an alternate universe?
If you watched The Wire, to a Baltimore city dwelling black, escape to “the county” was to move to a different world. To some in Baltimore city, those that became educated and did move and succeed became objects of scorn.
“This is the first time in the history of the 64 team tournament (30+ years) that a #16 seed has beaten a #1 seed.”
And a shadow government is trying to take over our government, the “press” with it’s constitutional protections is committing TREASON every time they create FAKE news, and scumbags like Soros are funding/thus creating an army of masked militants trying to take away our ability to resist by taking away our guns.
Not to mention the eroding of our freedom of speech by blocking conservative views on social media and college campus’.
Election fraud is stealing your right to choose which candidates should represent you.
Illegal aliens and terrorists are flooding through our open borders and our liberal judiciary is letting them get away with MURDER, literally!
Our president has faced a vicious, non stop assault since the day he announced for the job.
And some nobody school basketball team won a game!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!! You have time for GAMES?
MEANINGLESS games by meaningless teams, in a meaningless sport, is what grabs your attention?
***TREASON*** at the highest levels, ***Corruption*** at the highest levels, outright ***ASSAULT*** on our constitutional rights and liberties, the ***USURPATION*** of the culture by the perverse, degenerate, abhorrent, disease ridden, sexual deviants and some friggin, useless, BASKETBALL GAME gets your attention?
All is LOST! Jesus come SOON, NOW!
(Don’t bother to flame me, I don’t read your replies)
Lay off the caffeine and take a laxative.
That would be Texas Western not West Texas State. Texas Western is now UTEP.
As per wiki: Baltimore [city] is almost completely surrounded by Baltimore County, but is politically independent of it.
Baltimore County is the suburbs surrounding the city on the nothing east and west. Don’t know who had the bright idea of naming the city and county the same.
In Maine we have 16 counties with some having a town with the same name and other towns with the same name in other counties. When you refer to a county here you always refer to it as x county.
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