"I felt a great disturbance at the Sports Book..."
Posted on 03/16/2018 9:02:42 PM PDT by rdl6989
Before Friday, a No. 16 seed had never beaten a No. 1 seed, much less a No. 1 overall seed. They were 0-135. But the University of Maryland-Baltimore County -- yes, the little-known UMBC Retrievers -- proved even the longest of odds aren't totally insurmountable.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...
“Las Vegas had them at 20-1 for tonight’s game.”
Only 20-1? Seems low. Still glad I threw that $50,000 on UMBC yesterday.
I wish!
IG Report, McCabe getting fired, VA losing... Passports?
Looks like UVa b’ball drank a whole barrel of Saban’s Special Formulae Rat Poison.
20-1 was are suckers odds. We now have the data point the odds should be more like 100 - 1 on the 1 v 16 games.
"I felt a great disturbance at the Sports Book..."
...there are no more perfect brackets.
Before the Retrievers’ win — through 28 games of the 2018 NCAA tournament — there were 25 perfect brackets left across all major bracket games.
We were tracking tens of millions of brackets at five major bracket games, including the Capital One March Madness Bracket Challenge Game, ESPN, Bleacher Report, Yahoo, and CBS.
Only 2.18 percent of all BCG brackets picked the Retrievers to pull off the upset. For reference, 13.73 percent of brackets picked Virginia to win the championship...
[numbers and graphs at link]
We live north of Baltimore and our daughter lives and works in Charlottesville.
I don’t watch, nor do I care in the least about basketball but I’ll gloat anyway.
Anything we can do to encourage more liberal tears in Berkeley East is great.
The day after POTUS Trump was elected, she was glad to have the day off. All her super lib co-workers would know how she voted by the big smile on her face.
UMBC is one of those interesting rising schools that are steadily climbing the academic ladder. In MD as in many states, the flagship campus of the state system has become more selective and in-state admission can't be taken for granted. The first response is usually to grow the flagship campus to the point that alums and boosters begin to fear that it's becoming an unrecognizable and unlovely behemoth. States then realize the need to upgrade the second and third tier schools in the system. Places that were local commuter colleges with no particular standards gradually begin to improve. The best example here is probably George Mason, which was not on anyone's radar screen when I arrived in DC forty years ago. It's now a recognized national university, not an elite school like UVA but thoroughly respectable. Its campus still looks like a suburban office park, but we'll probably have to start getting used to that. Campuses that were established prior to the post-WWII automobile culture were built to a walking scale and are generally quite attractive. On many more modern campuses, it's clear that the planners and architects think the most important thing is parking lots convenient to every building.
He has MSU winning it all.
UMBC is a powerhouse in chess tournaments.
Actually UMBC prides itself on having the highest percentage of graduates go on to PhD’s and MD’s of any college in the country. Its long-time president has a math degree.
There will be many ‘reports’ of people having done that. A few may actually be true. :=)
Buh bye, Virginia. There is no Santa Claus for you this March.
Always wanted this to happen to Duke. Still do
With a $1 million payout, I think Warren Buffet can afford to self-insure.
There are always exceptions to the general rule.
Maybe, but that would be unusual. And Buffett’s challenge is for Berkshire employees only, $1 million a year for life, and the winner only has to pick a perfect Sweet Sixteen, not the whole bracket.
No one has come close in the four years he’s done the challenge.
Yes there is - Kentucky. I've seen them a few times this season and the Wildcats can go into long funks where they are a pretty average team. They are certainly capable of beating themselves.
The upsets will continue, largely because of undisciplined freshmen playing the game. They’ve ruined basketball, first NBA and now the NBA has ruined college basketball. Coaches are just recruiters, players are just athletic high schoolers that really don’t know how to play.
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