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HISTORY MAKING TWEETCAP: UMBC the first 16-seed to beat a #1 seed

by Ian

Tonight, UMBC became the first 16-seed in NCAA Tournament history to beat a #1 seed. Prior to this game, 16-seeds were 0-135. UMBC finished second in the America East conference in the regular season, 3 games behind first-place Vermont. The Retrievers made the Tournament by hitting a last-second 3-pointer to beat Vermont in the America East Championship. As a reward, the Committee put them on the 16-seed line and slotted them against the #1 overall seed Virginia who was 31-2 and had the best defense in the nation.

A minute after the game started, former CBS college hoops analyst Seth Davis tweeted one of his famous “sharpie” tweets.

I’m sure that won’t come back to haunt him. At. All.

The first half was typical Virginia basketball. Played at a mind-numbingly slow pace. Virginia scored 21 points. UMBC hit some 3s to hang around and made a shot before halftime to tie the game.

Yes, tell me more about history.

So how do people feel about Virginia?

As we got into the second half, the UMBC twitter account started taking names

Give me some dog content.

Not hyperbole.

Then against the odds, UMBC started to pull away

MOAR DOGS

Tell me more about Virginia playing “beautiful basketball”

UMBC layed it on in the last minute and stretched the lead out to 20.

T W E N T Y

Over the #1 team in the nation.

Anyone have any perspective on this?

BYEEEE

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2 comments

bob graff March 19, 2018 - 11:19 pm

Hey Ian, just wondering where you are at on your brackets? I only did one and i’m still alive 98% on the ESPN bracket challenge.

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