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For the first time ever, a number 16 seed won a first-round game against a number 1 seed in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championships, when the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whipped the University of Virginia 74-54. --Bob

That's not even close. One team came to play and the other did not. Wow.

Bob78164 wrote:For the first time ever, a number 16 seed won a first-round game against a number 1 seed in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championships, when the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whipped the University of Virginia 74-54. --Bob

Virginia played so poorly that I thought it had joined the PAC-12 this year.

Appa23 wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:For the first time ever, a number 16 seed won a first-round game against a number 1 seed in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championships, when the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whipped the University of Virginia 74-54. --Bob

Virginia played so poorly that I thought it had joined the PAC-12 this year.

A lot of people are hanging their heads in Tucson.

Not correcting anyone, just adding to the fun:

The Harvard women upset a No. 1 seed in 1998.

Ritterskoop wrote:Not correcting anyone, just adding to the fun:

The Harvard women upset a No. 1 seed in 1998.

Thanks. I wondered whether that had ever happened. That's why I was careful to specify which tournament I was talking about. --Bob

They beat Stanford.

http://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/the-b ... upset-club

I want to go back in time and offer people Virginia plus 19 in this game.

Bob Juch wrote:

Appa23 wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:For the first time ever, a number 16 seed won a first-round game against a number 1 seed in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championships, when the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whipped the University of Virginia 74-54. --Bob

Virginia played so poorly that I thought it had joined the PAC-12 this year.

A lot of people are hanging their heads in Tucson.

Not just Tucson.

This year was the first time that one of the Power 6 conferences failed to win any games in the expanded tournament.

Made worse when 2 of 3 couldn’t even escape a play-in game. Arizona was the only team to make it to the tournament proper (Round of 64), and it was lucky not to lose by 30 or more.

Interesting bit of trivia in today's Atlanta Journal.

Before Friday, what had widely been considered the greatest upset in NCAA (men's) basketball history occurred in 1982 also involving a #1 Virginia team, this time with Ralph Sampson, which lost to Chaminade, an NAIA team (albeit a very good one), in Hawaii. That Virginia team was headed back to the U.S. after a tournament in Tokyo where the beat the famed Houston Phi Slamma Jamma team. They had wanted to schedule Hawaii, but couldn't make arrangements work, so agreed to play Chaminade on their stopover. Later in the season, Virginia and Houston would both become victims of N.C. State, during its run to the NCAA championship, a major upset in itself.

While it's unusual enough that both of these monumental upsets involve Virginia, it goes farther. One of the assistant coaches on Sampson's Virginia team was Dave Odom, who would have a solid coaching career of his own at Wake Forest (with Tim Duncan) and South Carolina. Odom's son is Ryan Odom, head coach at UMBC.

So, now a member of the Odom family has been on each side of the two biggest upsets in NCAA history.

And Ryan Odom coached at Charlotte, where Friday's game was played, for a while.

silverscreenselect wrote:Interesting bit of trivia in today's Atlanta Journal.

Before Friday, what had widely been considered the greatest upset in NCAA (men's) basketball history occurred in 1982 also involving a #1 Virginia team, this time with Ralph Sampson, which lost to Chaminade, an NAIA team (albeit a very good one), in Hawaii. That Virginia team was headed back to the U.S. after a tournament in Tokyo where the beat the famed Houston Phi Slamma Jamma team. They had wanted to schedule Hawaii, but couldn't make arrangements work, so agreed to play Chaminade on their stopover. Later in the season, Virginia and Houston would both become victims of N.C. State, during its run to the NCAA championship, a major upset in itself.

While it's unusual enough that both of these monumental upsets involve Virginia, it goes farther. One of the assistant coaches on Sampson's Virginia team was Dave Odom, who would have a solid coaching career of his own at Wake Forest (with Tim Duncan) and South Carolina. Odom's son is Ryan Odom, head coach at UMBC.

So, now a member of the Odom family has been on each side of the two biggest upsets in NCAA history.

My sister went to Chaminade. The upset is still talked about. They have beat a couple of highhly ranked teams over the years.

With this happening you can get a free meal at Little Caesars on April 2nd. Here's the info.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/busin ... 437723002/

Get there early. Time cut off is firm.

Ray

rayxtwo wrote:With this happening you can get a free meal at Little Caesars on April 2nd. Here's the info.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/busin ... 437723002/

Get there early. Time cut off is firm.

Ray

No thank you, it’s Passover.

The ancient Caesars weren’t friends of the Jews, so I’m not surprised.

Thanks for the heads up, Ray.

jarnon wrote:

rayxtwo wrote:With this happening you can get a free meal at Little Caesars on April 2nd. Here's the info.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/busin ... 437723002/

Get there early. Time cut off is firm.

Ray

No thank you, it’s Passover.

The ancient Caesars weren’t friends of the Jews, so I’m not surprised.

Thanks for the heads up, Ray.

How about if they made an unleavened pizza with chicken, artichokes, and eggplant?

Bob Juch wrote:

jarnon wrote:

rayxtwo wrote:With this happening you can get a free meal at Little Caesars on April 2nd. Here's the info.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/busin ... 437723002/

Get there early. Time cut off is firm.

Ray

No thank you, it’s Passover.

The ancient Caesars weren’t friends of the Jews, so I’m not surprised.

Thanks for the heads up, Ray.

How about if they made an unleavened pizza with chicken, artichokes, and eggplant?

I'd eat that! But I'd rather have cheese and no chicken.