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UMBC becomes first No. 16 seed to beat No. 1 seed in beatdown of Virginia.
NBC SPORTS ^ | 3/16/2018 | Scott Phillips

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: baltimore; basketball; marchmadness; uva
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To: Rebelbase

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.


41 posted on 03/17/2018 8:54:50 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: MisterArtery

Thanks for the correction. Texas Western won the NC against Kentucky and Coach Rupp. That was an earthquake.


42 posted on 03/17/2018 5:19:57 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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