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Crazy Upset in NCAA College Basketball.
NapaAddick
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Some college named UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore, just obliterated the #1 team in the USA, Virginia, by 75-54, in the first round of "March Madness." This is probably the biggest upset in NCAA Men's Basketball history.
UMBC came in ranked #111 and they destroyed the #1 team picked to win it all.
To put it in perspective, imagine if the current 111-ranked football club in England, Barrow, knocks out Manchester City in the first round of the FA Cup by a score of 3-1.
Every NCAA Championship bracket in America has been broken. ESPN had 17,300,000 people with bracket picks on it's website. Not one person got it right.
UMBC came in ranked #111 and they destroyed the #1 team picked to win it all.
To put it in perspective, imagine if the current 111-ranked football club in England, Barrow, knocks out Manchester City in the first round of the FA Cup by a score of 3-1.
Every NCAA Championship bracket in America has been broken. ESPN had 17,300,000 people with bracket picks on it's website. Not one person got it right.
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I really don't know what to say..15
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Very few here probably even know there is an NCAA basketball tourney. ;-)0
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I keep seeing it when I'm trawling up and down my sports channels but have no interest in basketball.0
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First time ever a number 16 seed has beaten a number 1 seed.0
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Meh.0
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How did they get by so unnoticed to be such outsiders and are they likely to go on to win or just a complete freak result?0
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Complete freak. This is first time in 136 games the 16th seed has beaten a first seed ( there are 4 ‘ divisions’ so 4 x 16th seeds in total.
In depth breakdown of how teams are chosen for tournament and seeding process below
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ncaa.com/amp/news/basketball-men/article/2017-03-12/march-madness-bracket-how-68-teams-are-selected-division-i0 -
We were in Vegas three years' ago when this basketball 'March Madness' was on. Everywhere you went the big screens were full of it 24/7! Like watching paint dry for me. My brother-in-law loves a gamble but to try and get your head round the thousands of different bets was too much even for him!0
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The opening week of March Madness is one of the busiest weeks in Vegas.0
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so I guess this 'bracket picks' means that a lot of people lost money because of this result?0
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Not entirely sure how the March Madness pools work but you don't have to get everything correct.
The odds of a perfect bracket is something like 9 quintillion to one. Seriously.0 -
Opening weekend of March Madness is probably the biggest sporting event in America each year after the Super Bowl.MrOneLung said:The opening week of March Madness is one of the busiest weeks in Vegas.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBuxsRnU50A
