NCAA men's basketball tounemant
UMBC Retreevers vs UVA Cavaliers tonight CHARLOTTE — The impossible has happened. UMBC, a 16 seed from the America East Conference that needed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer in its league title game just to make the NCAA Tournament, knocked off a No. 1 seed for the first time in the history of the sport. Virginia went down, 74-54. The scene at the Spectrum Center was, well, mostly chaos. Virginia fans were stunned. UMBC — that stands for University of Maryland-Baltimore County, by the way — were delirious. And fans of the other teams in this pod who stuck around mostly just watched the game with "Are we really seeing this?" looks on their faces. Turns out, they really were watching history. Led by 28 points from Jairus Lyles, the Retrievers didn't just beat the top-seeded Cavaliers, they dominated them. Words, honestly, cannot adequately describe what happened. The first half was methodical, and very much to Virginia's liking. Except for the part
