A 16 has done it! -- UPGRADING TO POSBANG!!!
I never thought I'd see it.
I LOVE COLLEGE SPORTS
UMBC beats overall #1 seed Virgina by 20.
74-54
March 17th, 2018 at 12:26 AM ^
March 17th, 2018 at 12:27 AM ^
Absolutely incredible. Insane that a "basketball school" like Virginia has never even played in a title game, let alone win one...
Fact: Michigan has a far better basketball history than "basketball school" Virginia.
It's not even close.
Damn straight. Xavier: never made a Final Four. UVA: never made a title game. Wake Forest: never made a title game. Purdue: never won a title. Kinda ridiculous that these schools get so much love considering they've never reached the peak. Hell, U of San Francisco has as many titles as Sparty does
college sports are king!!
The amazing thing was: not only was this a 1 seed in Virginia, it was the overall #1 and the undisputed best team in the country going into this tournament.
...And then, they didn't just lose, but endured a classic beatdown, in an exciting fashion, all by a 16 seed.
History. Wow.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/22801426/2018-nc…
One guy placed a $20K parlay. He picked three high seeds to win, straight-up. A winning bet would have been worth $870. UNC, Purdue... and Virginia. Oops.
There was another guy who placed a $1294.40 wager on Virginia straight up. It would have paid.. $12.95.
There's a reason alcohol is free in Vegas, people. :)
To quote Kevin from The Office, "If someone gives you 10,000 to 1 on anything, you take it"
Edit: somebody had asked if Caesar's had offered 5000-1 on UMBC to win vs. Virginia. I don't know if that post got deleted or edited or what, but that's what this was a response to. :)
5000-1 to win the tournament, not just for this one game. ML for this game was between 20-1 and 25-1, depending upon where you bet.
UMBC had never beaten a ranked opponent. wow!
College sports beat pro events for shear drama time and time again. Give me a college game any day of the week. This is why we watch.
Was only a question of when and not if, but wow. All brackets are hereby destroyed.
Because UVA was the overall #1, does that mean UMBC was the last 16 to get in? Either way, being the #61 seed, or the #64 doesn't really matter. This upset will never be topped - it can't get better than beating the living shit out of the overall #1!!!
Congrats, UMBC Chessie Bay Retrievers!
March 17th, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
You'd think so, but no. They must have swapped 16s around for some reason. In fact, nothing in the bottom of the bracket makes much sense.
UMBC was actually #63 on the S-Curve, maing them actually the strongest 16 per the committee. The play-in games were #65 Radford vs #66 LIU-Brooklyn and #67 UNC Central vs #68 Texas Southern. If they had bracketed everything according to the S-Curve, they should have matched up #65 vs #68 and #66 vs #67, and UVa should have gotten the latter.
It's a little weird to say that UVa got hosed by the specific choice of 16 seed the committee made, but they basically did.
than I ever do in filling out a bracket, and the results show—of the first 32 games, I picked 11 wrong.
Including UVA.
Which I had winning the NC.
March 17th, 2018 at 10:37 AM ^
Go to Google. Just type in "U".
You'll never see that again.
Truly amazing to watch. Had my wife, who'd rather read Kindle than watch these games, yelling at the screen. Also a generational moment... The first time in a while where I couldn't spin a yarn to my boys about how I'd "seen this script before" or "it ain't going to happen because" while referencing some random game from before their time. An anti-choke coming down the stretch from the UMBC. Simply a cool moment...