The 188th ranked team in the nation becomes the first ever win by a 16 seed team. There will be no perfect brackets this year, mighty Casey has struck out. (Never mix a sports metaphor). Not squeaked by either, a decisive 74-54 game.
Dennis
About time.
I’m just glad it wasn’t Kansas! 
What a time to be alive!
Who’s a good boy? Who’s a gooood boy? You are!
Now, go get the ball!
Normally I’d rail against this and demand #1 and #2 seeds get an automatic bye in this round but this game wasn’t even close. It’s not like the #1 team in the country lost in a fluke buzzer beater.
What the hell happened to Virginia??? What a bunch of losers, chokers and quitters and a disgrace to basketball. Their coach needs to be fired and the entire team cut. If I was an NBA Coach I’d never draft any of these jokers.
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“May you live in interesting times.”
Will this curse never cease?
Unlike Arizona, which quite clearly quit after Buffalo opened up a bit of a lead, I didn’t get the sense Virginia quit. But they did keep jacking up 3s even though they had been missing all night. Really wonder what their coach was thinking.
134 people bet this long shot with one bookie, bet $100 to win $2500. The bookie lost over $320,000.
Dennis
I knew it would happen someday and I thought it’d be one of those “where were you when it happened” kind of moments. Like a buzzer beater, classic one shining moment moment. Turned out to be a blow out in a pretty dull game. Would never have guessed a 20 point blowout.
Virginia will never live this down. ACC HA HA!
Those players are going to be the laughingstock of campus on Monday. Too bad their spring break was last week!
There will never be a perfect bracket. The odds are astronomical.
REALLY——now I can’t believe players like on Virginia who could make millions more n the NBA would ever throw a game——I’m intrigued IF there’s a link:
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But there have been.
No, low seeds absolutely shouldn’t get free byes just because. The rankings aren’t real: The game is. If you can’t even beat a 15 or 16 seed, even in a squeaker, then your ranking was wrong.
Didn’t hurt my bracket one bit.
Because for the first time in about 30 years, I didn’t fill even one out this year. Broke a streak back to before there were 64 teams.
Howard Johnson is right!
I’m rather skeptical of this claim.
From here:
Those calculated odds assume a 50-50 chance in each game. Those are far off in the early rounds
The 1 in 9.2 quintillion, yes, but even the lowest estimate is 1 in 128 billion.