Biggest Upset In College Basketball History
Mar 18, 2018 09:42:01 #
mas24 wrote:
Yesterday, a 16th Seeded Basketball Team, called UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) defeated the overall #1 Seeded team, the University of Virginia, by 20 points. Score. 74-54. This first victory was the first of 135 attempts in the NCAA Tournament, by a 16th Seeded team playing a #1 Seed. UMBC plays 9th Seeded Kansas State on Sunday. That game will have high TV ratings. Can UMBC do it again?
I absolutely hope UMBC crushes Kansas State like they did to Virginia.
Mar 18, 2018 10:37:33 #
How random does it get:
I was on vacation in Aruba and Friday night my 10 year old grandson was looking at the schedule and asked me who this "UMBC" school was, I had no clue. He said it probably didn't matter 'cause UVA would "crush" them. It was the late game so we went to bed and the next morning didn't know what happened.
Saturday morning we're on the elevator going down to the beach and my grandson says: "I wonder what happened to those UMBC guys last night?"
A woman on the elevator gets hysterical laughing and her husband starts talking but has laryngitis and can't get a word out. His wife tells us they won and he lost his voice screaming during the game. She was surprised everyone in the hotel didn't hear him. Turns out he's an alum AND former chess player.
Go Retrievers👍
I was on vacation in Aruba and Friday night my 10 year old grandson was looking at the schedule and asked me who this "UMBC" school was, I had no clue. He said it probably didn't matter 'cause UVA would "crush" them. It was the late game so we went to bed and the next morning didn't know what happened.
Saturday morning we're on the elevator going down to the beach and my grandson says: "I wonder what happened to those UMBC guys last night?"
A woman on the elevator gets hysterical laughing and her husband starts talking but has laryngitis and can't get a word out. His wife tells us they won and he lost his voice screaming during the game. She was surprised everyone in the hotel didn't hear him. Turns out he's an alum AND former chess player.
Go Retrievers👍
Mar 18, 2018 11:59:47 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
Dannj wrote:
How random does it get: br I was on vacation in A... (show quote)
The Richmond Times Dispatch Newspaper article about the defeat was critical towards the Coach, Tony Bennett. Yes, that's his real name. They said that a team with an ACC Championship, the toughest conference in the nation. And to be the #1 Seed in the Tournament, as well as #1 in the nation. Put on an embarrassing performance. It's not that they were beaten, but how they were beaten. The Article compared this to the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588 by the British. Wow!!
Mar 18, 2018 12:43:59 #
skylinefirepest
Loc: Southern Pines, N.C.
Virginia simply couldn't hit crapola while the other team played very well. Virginia was first in the ACC and had kicked butt on everybody they met. I told my friends that "yes, they lost, but they still set a record!!" I'm rooting for Duke and Carolina now.
Mar 18, 2018 13:06:11 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
skylinefirepest wrote:
Virginia simply couldn't hit crapola while the other team played very well. Virginia was first in the ACC and had kicked butt on everybody they met. I told my friends that "yes, they lost, but they still set a record!!" I'm rooting for Duke and Carolina now.
Roy Williams and Coach K. They own North Carolina, like Nick Saban owns Alabama.
Mar 18, 2018 14:15:24 #
mas24 wrote:
The Richmond Times Dispatch Newspaper article about the defeat was critical towards the Coach, Tony Bennett. Yes, that's his real name. They said that a team with an ACC Championship, the toughest conference in the nation. And to be the #1 Seed in the Tournament, as well as #1 in the nation. Put on an embarrassing performance. It's not that they were beaten, but how they were beaten. The Article compared this to the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588 by the British. Wow!!
Some folks really take this stuff seriously😊
Mar 18, 2018 14:26:46 #
Dannj wrote:
Some folks really take this stuff seriously😊
I never watch sports other than the Olympics, but when a NC basketball team from the Triangle (Duke, UNC, NC State) succeeds in the NCAA championship as it has MANY times in the past - 13 championships for those 3 schools so far (I graduated from NCSU the year we won the championship), we DO take it seriously. Basketball spoken here!
Mar 18, 2018 14:28:55 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
Dannj wrote:
Some folks really take this stuff seriously😊
Yes we do. As well as golf, baseball, football, and Photography. Etc.
Mar 18, 2018 15:02:56 #
Not a Basketball fan but I went to some concerts there back in the 70's. I went to college nearby though..... Catonsville Community College.
Mar 18, 2018 15:30:06 #
Mar 18, 2018 16:43:30 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
Hal81 wrote:
Love football, baseball, hocky but basketball, not so much.
That's OK. You have two very good NFL football teams in Pennsylvania now. Plus Penn State Football. Pretty good choices.
Mar 18, 2018 16:58:31 #
Mar 18, 2018 17:06:39 #
jeep_daddy wrote:
Wish I had a bet on them in Las Vegas. Ugh!
$800 would have got you $16,000 on one board. 20:1. I would have thought it would be higher.
Mar 18, 2018 17:10:00 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
raferrelljr wrote:
Hope they slaughter Kansas then eventually get eliminated by UNC.
It's not likely UMBC will go all the way to the Championship Game. But making history defeating Virginia and going to the Sweet 16 is still SWEET enough. IMO. If they beat Kansas State?
Mar 18, 2018 17:52:03 #
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