For those of you who are living under a rock and where unable to watch what happened on Friday, just know that it was history, literally. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a school you most likely never heard of until Friday. Now you may be asking yourself what they did that was so historic. They went into the NCAA tournament as a 16 seed, meaning the lowest seed possible. They only made the tournament because they won their conference and would have to play a one seed. 16 seeds historically are 1-135 against one seeds, I bet you can guess what team has that one win.

In case you still don’t get it, it was UMBC who got that win on Friday. Not only did they do something that 135 other teams couldn’t do they did it in dominating fashion. The final score was 74-54, UMBC beat number one seed Virginia Cavaliers by 20 points. Now Virginia wasn’t an over ranked or least good one seed. They were the number one overall seed in the whole tournament. Virginia had the best defense in the country, they allowed only 54 points per game, and this was the first game they allowed over 70 points. Virginia started the year off unranked but was in the top ten most of the season and top two or three for the last month or so. They finished 31-2 and were favorites to win it all ( I had them winning it all in my bracket so thanks UMBC). UMBC had a game where they lost 83-39 and barely won their conference but they don’t call it March Madness for nothing. UMBC’s run ended in the second round when they lost to nine seed Kansas State. Oh, and did I mention that UMBC’s mascot is a Retriever, like the dog breed, not exactly what I would call intimidating.

In other March Madness news, the Sweet Sixteen is set, and there are the same amount of one seed, two, as there are 11 seeds, two. There are also two seven seeds, two nine seeds, two two seeds, two three seeds, three five seeds and one lone four seed in Gonzaga. My new favorite is Duke or Villanova now so hopefully they win. Actually I want one of the 11 seeds to win because no double digit team has ever won.

Both Utah and BYU made the NIT tournament. BYU was a six seed and lost its opening game to three seed Stanford. Utah is a two seed and won the opening round against seven seed UC Davis and beat three seed LSU in the second round and heads to play one seed St. Mary’s in the quarterfinals.