History is made: 16 Seed UMBC beats 1 Seed UVA
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I like the fact it's the ACC that has the honor of being the first conference to accomplish this feat.
A reminder that Albany beat this UMBC by 44 this year. Virginia won the ACC by FOUR GAMES. What is college basketball? I have no idea.
Glad my alma mater told Ryan Odom to take a hike to hire Mark Price...
Happy for Odom, good guy and a good coach.
Happy for Odom, good guy and a good coach.
I said that of the one seeds, uva was the most offensively challenged of the four and would most likely to be upset
But I could never have predicted that
But I could never have predicted that
The ACC sucks. That's the only conclusion a sane person can make. They absolutely suck!
The basketball gods hate RU so much they won't even let a #1 team with an ex Rutgers player win a game.
If they hated RU so much, he would have hit the winning shot in the national championship game. The basketball gods are changing their tune.
they said it couldnt happen, for some reason no matter how good UVA is or has been they always seemed to not be as scary as a blue blood as a 1.
just one of those miracle games, if they played it 100 times, UVA would win 98 of them, they needed to put them away early and didnt and then just never pulled it together no leadership
crazy quad right now....KSU/UMBC-Buffalo/KY...we very well could see a UMBC-Buffalo matchup for a trip to the elite 8
just one of those miracle games, if they played it 100 times, UVA would win 98 of them, they needed to put them away early and didnt and then just never pulled it together no leadership
crazy quad right now....KSU/UMBC-Buffalo/KY...we very well could see a UMBC-Buffalo matchup for a trip to the elite 8
Looking at that bracket I have to think that Coach Cal paid somebody off. He appears to have a pretty easy path to the regional final now
This one is for all of us who grew up dreaming of leading the first 16 seed to beat a 1 seed (and are perpetually infuriated that so few recruits seem to value the same kind of glory :joy:)
Classy interview by Bennett to Tracy Wilson after the game
those tears from UVA fans in the crowd were a bit over the top. Going through 27 years of being a RU is experiencing losing , losing a game in the first round of the NCAA too bad. Get over it.
Two things:
- Not sure people realize how unlikely UMBC was to get here in the first place. I really felt equally stunned when UMBC went up to Vermont and won. I had Vermont as most likely conf tourney champ of all leagues. Teamrankings.com had Vermont as like 90 or 91 percent chance to win (I know that's not equivalent to the 98 percent chance UVA had). UMBC was probably the biggest underdog of all 32 conference tournament finals.
- This isn't exactly equivalent to the 1 vs 16 games we had back in 80s/90s/00s. UMBC would have been a 15 seed there before the play-in games so this is really a 1 vs 15 game for historical comparison purposes. I believe Lunardi tweeted something about this but its a point I've thought of for years when the games would be at halftime.
- Not sure people realize how unlikely UMBC was to get here in the first place. I really felt equally stunned when UMBC went up to Vermont and won. I had Vermont as most likely conf tourney champ of all leagues. Teamrankings.com had Vermont as like 90 or 91 percent chance to win (I know that's not equivalent to the 98 percent chance UVA had). UMBC was probably the biggest underdog of all 32 conference tournament finals.
- This isn't exactly equivalent to the 1 vs 16 games we had back in 80s/90s/00s. UMBC would have been a 15 seed there before the play-in games so this is really a 1 vs 15 game for historical comparison purposes. I believe Lunardi tweeted something about this but its a point I've thought of for years when the games would be at halftime.
I heard that too... in addition to giving UMBC all the credit, he spoke about the life lesson that was learned. I came away really impressed... it's too bad that this didn't happen to a blue blood under investigation.
when we all rooted for the one seed to go down, we never envisioned it to be Virginia...we all were thinking UNC or Duke
Hard to believe that a team that blew through “the Best conference in the country” with only a single loss got absolutely SMOKED by a low major team! Wow!
Kentucky won't be able to win that game without making a 3 pointer like they did against Davidson.
For all those guys who rag on the mid majors... it’s what makes the tourney great. Amazing. We did not need to see TCU, Oklahoma, Arkansas...
I felt a great disturbance in the Force. As if a billion brackets cried out, and were suddenly silenced.
Agreed. I hope pay back to the NCAA is a South Regional with UMBC vs Buffalo and Loyala-Chicago vs Nevada.
I know you probably can't relate to it, but when you are the number one seed in the entire tournament with your best chance to win the natty since Ralph Sampson played and you flame out (spectacularly btw) in the first round to a school that they probably couldn't point to on a map...you get that kind of reaction to a loss.
speaking of Sampson, UVA is now the loser in arguably the two biggest upsets in college basketball history.
Nothing is easy in this thing. Even their 1st round game vs. Davidson wasn't easy. I have Cinncy in that region.
Great that this was the ACC.Wish it wasn't Virginia though.Duke or the University of No Classes would have been the topper.
