CHARLOTTE — And on the 136th attempt, the basketball gods relented.
A
No. 16 seed has finally beaten a No. 1 in the NCAA tournament. And even
if you could see it coming somewhere, some time, in the future, it
wasn’t supposed to be this.
But
it happened Friday night in the South Regional, taking down a team that
just last week completed a golden 31-2 season with both the ACC regular
season and conference tournament titles. And it was executed by team
ranked 188th in the country according to the Ken Pomeroy efficiency
ratings, a team that lost to the likes of Stony Brook and was beaten 44
points by Albany in the middle of its conference season.
It’s too improbable for words, except that it happened.
“Unbelievable — it’s really all you can say,” UMBC coach Ryan Odom said.
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