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I watched a condensed replay of that game. Each of the UMBC players was in the zone of their life in that game, difficult shots, finesse, 50% from 3pt, ridiculous.
Virginia that year had a historically good season, but ran an 8 man rotation. By the tournament, they had lost 3 of their top 8 including their best player. (This is as I recall)
I went to UMBC it was so crazy when they beat Virginia, campus was wild. We don't even have a football team so to beat the #1 overall seed in the NCAA tourney was unbelievable. The entire game I was just waiting for Virginia to go on a 30 point run and crush my hopes lol
As a UVA fan, I would trade that loss for the National Championship the next year any day, but man, that was a dark day on grounds after that loss. I was a first year for the UMBC season, and a second year for the national championship.
the upsets are electric but close finishes are awesome as well. A few years ago Gonzaga played UCLA, Gonzaga was undefeated and won on a buzzer beater if I remember correctly. That game was so much fun to watch. Next year my team Kansas went down early and came back to win the final. Both were seeded games but the drama was incredible.
It was not a NCAA tournament game, but regular season. In 1982 Virginia was ranked 1st in the country and featured one of the great collegiate centers in history, 7'4" Ralph Samson. Virginia went to Hawaii and lost to a small Hawaiian team, Chaminade University. Not many of us had heard of Chaminade before that game.
That was the year my Tar Heels beat Virginia. I was a young 4th grade teacher then, with an entire soccer team in my class who all decided to pull hard for Virginia. One of the parents told me that when the buzzer went off, their son turned to his father and said, " Daddy, do I have to go to school tomorrow?" I made all those boys put their desks in front of a full page picture of Dean Smith cutting down the nets. 40 years have passed and they still go on Facebook and remind me of that day!😇🤣
A few things that I think are important for context to understand how these upsets happen, and why they are so common during the tournament. First off, these games are all played at neutral locations, and there will be multiple games from across the bracket being played in that location. In the first two rounds, each location has 8 teams playing their ties at the venue. That means that even for the biggest teams (#1 and 2 seeds) with the largest fan bases, they might only have 65% of the fans there. This means that if a #4 seed is playing in the same location as where a different #1 seed is playing, all of the neutral #1 fans will start cheering for the underdog. Also, most of the biggest teams don’t have players that stay for all four years, they leave after 1-2 years to go play in the NBA. This means there is constant turnover on the squad each year. These little schools that pull an upset usually have a core group of 3-4 juniors/seniors that have team chemistry and experience together. Lastly, they need to get hot and start raining down 3s because their players are almost always smaller so it’s much harder to score from inside the arc.
When the smaller schools get an automatic bid, they’re always a low seed such as 13,14,15,16. This means that the teams who dont win their conference tournament, at worst get a 12 seed. Usually the 12 seeds from big schools are a lot better than the small schools who are a 13 seed. This is why there’s a lot of first round upsets where the 12 beats the 5 or the 11 beats the 6. The teams are a lot closer in competition than a 4 vs 13 or 3 vs 14 and so on.
You guys are proper sports fans. I used to think your interests were to generate clicks and views, but your enthusiasm is genuine and infectious, so my apologies for thinking otherwise. You two have gotten me excited again about March Madness! Thanks! Keep up the great videos.
So great to see coach Jim Valvano in the last clip. He unfortunately got cancer and died not long after this, but I always remember how exuberant he was and gave one of the best speeches of all time near the end of his life for the V foundation which has raised millions for cancer research. "Don't give up, don't ever give up".
That UMBC - Virginia game was stunning. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, kept waiting for a Virginia comeback that never came. They weren't just a 1-seed either, they were the best of the 1-seeds (top seeded team in the whole tournament)! And to lose by so much.. It didn't feel real. And then for Virginia to win the national championship the very next year was the ultimate redemption story.
One thing to understand about these upsets is just how different some of these teams/schools/players are, especially in the new NIL era where players can make money off endorsements. Last year #15 seed St. Peter's beat #2 seed Kentucky. St. Peter's plays in an arena that seats 3,000 people (and is never filled) while Kentucky plays in front of 23,000 in a state-of-the-art facility. Kentucky's teams are typically filled with future NBA players while march madness represents the final moments of basketball for many of the St. Peter's players. St. Peter's has a total enrollment of around 2,000 while many schools eclipse 40,000 with large athletic department budgets where the players are compensated well via various endorsements while playing for major schools. At St. Peter's opportunities like that are limited. John Calipari, the head coach of Kentucky, makes of $8 million per year in salary alone, while many low-major D1 head coaches sit around $300,000. A D1 head coaching gig will always pay well, but the amount of resources the coach of Kentucky is working with versus the coach of St. Peter's is insane to comprehend. So the fact that St. Peter's won was an upset which is difficult to replicate at the professional ranks in any sport.
What makes the NCAA tournament fascinating is that the so--called favorites are that because they play in a better conference but there are times when the underdogs who win are actually larger schools in population than the favorites so the it puts a twist on the "little" guy beating the "big" guy
Wish they would’ve shown more of UAB over Iowa State. I was working on campus at the time and we celebrated like crazy when we took the lead. I ended up rolling my ankle 😭
What makes march madness tournament so special is a lot of these underdogs aren't seen a lot so these top seeds may not have a lot of tape to study the opponents. Also a lot of these of these teams are playing in neutral sites throughout the tournament (except #1 seeds where they make them closest to their home area they can early on). So while fans do travel with the teams, you do get a lot of neutral fans at these games. In the opening round, there's 4 games played at the same court throughout the day, they just play at noon, 3, 6 and 9pm (around those times). So a lot of neutral fans or fans of teams in the same bracket get caught up wanting the upsets. So the longer those games are close for top seeds, the more the fans believe that those upsets can happen.
If you want to get a little more into it and see some of the teams that'll be playing in March Madness I highly recommend trying to follow some of the conference tournaments this week. They'll be on all day every day until Selection Sunday starts and the winners of each tournament are guaranteed to be in the field of 68
Sunday, March 12, 4 p.m. MST: NCAA Tournament Selection Show March 14-15: First Four games in Dayton, Ohio March 16-17: First round games at various location March 18-19: Second round games at various locations March 23-24: Sweet 16 games at various locations March 25-26: Elite Eight games at various locations April 1: Final Four games at NRG Stadium in Houston April 3: NCAA Championship Game at NRG Stadium in Houston
This is what makes March Madness so fun. There are always upsets. Every year there is some Cinderella team that makes it to the sweet sixteen or elite eight and occasionally one that makes it to the final four.
There were some very old clips in this video. A testament to how moments of heroics in this tournament are never forgotten and cement teams and players forever into our collective memories. College teams have reunions decades into the future where they bring the members of their past teams to lavish ceremonies to honor and remember their achievements. Many players and coaches are honored forever on plaques or bronze statues erected on their campus and have stadiums named after them. Its quite crazy. But fun as hell!! 😛 Great watching you two blokes get a look at March Madness. The upsets (which to be fair are rare) usually the top seeds win and the absolute two best teams play in the semifinals and finals. The finality of a loss. The excitement of these young guys playing on such a big stage. The attendance of these games are always sold out at every venue no matter who is playing. Its filling out your brackets and seeing how far your teams go before one of them loses, nonstop action for about 3 weeks. New heroes emerge every tournament and leave an unforgettable mark on this tournaments' history that will never be forgotten. Love your channel guys.
That one upset of Murray State 13 seed beating Vandy a 4 seed always sticks out to me and gives me goosebumps. My family is Murray State fans. My dad went wild when that shot was made. Me and my brother have went on to attend Murray State. Great school, great basketball tradition! We aren't going to make the tournament this year, but over the last 20-30 years we have been recognized nationally as one of the best mid-majors (smaller schools) in basketball. Go Racers!
Rounds 2 and 3 this year will be played in my hometown Birmingham, AL close to home for the Alabama crimson tide and UAB blazers. Can’t wait to attend some of these games
Also with the clip where Davidson was playing and they made the David and Goliath reference, Davidson is a smaller school and not s traditional power house program but on that team was Steph Curry who now is arguably one of the most prolific 3pt shooters in nba history. But the 08 run Davidson made to the elite 8 was remarkable and they knocked out traditionally strong programs with wins over Gonzaga the # 7 seed, Georgetown the # 2 seed and Wisconsin the # 3 seed, all while being A #10 seed. While falling to # 1 sees Kansas in the region final.
You can't go wrong reacting to NC State winning the National Championship in 1983. They're the ultimate Cinderella team. (The clip of the winning shot 12:14) You also can't go wrong reacting to Villanova knocking off #1 Georgetown in 1985. Both are classics with great back stories.
P.S. - The small conferences championship games going on right now and this week. Mid-major and Power 5 tournaments starting today and later this week, too.
Ok in prep for Oral Roberts making it again after winning their conference, you gotta watch their run in 2021, they were the second 15 seed to make it to the sweet 16. They upset Ohio State in overtime, then Florida in the second round. Both incredibly close games. The reason I highlight Oral Roberts is because 3/5 of their starters return (including the #1 scorer in the country that year, Max Abmas. He was also the only person other than Steph Curry to score 25+ in all of his NCAA tourney games), and the team is better this year than they were that year. Definitely worth watching a highlight video from. They are one of the top 10 most fun teams to watch, lots of 3’s a 5’11” Max Abmas point guard, and a 7’5” center that shoots 3’s more than layups and dunks. Truly a spectacle😂
It’s so funny when you guys pause in the middle of a 10 second clip and speculate on questions about what could be happening just to see you hit play and they explain it 🤣 It’s like in lectures when they say please save all questions until the end
I think one reason Virginia tended to struggle a bit in the tournament was that the years when they were very good, they were one of the slowest-paced teams in the country. It means the other team doesn't have to be lucky for as long, effectively. They did win the title one year, but before that they had a solid reputation as a choke artist. The Hampton-Iowa State game from 2001 without the seeds listed was a 15-over-2. I had said in a comment on a previous video that that happened only about once every 5-6 years, but it's become a bit more common recently - partly because of the introduction of the First Four in 2011 (which means that a couple of the 15 seeds would have been 14s under the older rules). After 2001, we went 11 years before it happened again - and then there were three in a span of two years.
Most people are commenting on the UMBC-Virginia game, but the Syracuse-Virginia game deserves some context too. It was much later in the tournament than most upsets (Elite Eight) but Syracuse is a bit of a unique case. They have been in decline the past decade or so, but they still often do well in the tournament because they play a very unique type of defense - the 2-3 zone. Since teams don't know who they are playing until just a few days before, it can be hard to beat teams that have strange looks as you don't have as long to prep against them, and Syracuse has taken full advantage of that in the past decade.
Great clip at 11:51. You’ve got future two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash missing(!) a clutch free throw. He ends being one of the better free throw shooters in NBA history. Lucky his miss didn’t come back to bite them.
Would love to see you guys watch Ken Griffey Jr and Ichiro Suzuki highlights. I’m a little biased as a Mariners fans, but those two have some of the most crazy baseball highlights you will ever see.
I'm so glad that you both are going to follow this year's tournament. You are going to have a personal experience of what is March Madness! These kids give it all they've got in each elimination game.
The last free throw he missed you hear the announcer say just hit it off the rim. He has made the first. They didn’t show it. So it was a 4 point game. The strategy there is you can score 3 max unless you’re fouled. But the extra seconds running off making them go down the court is what is important. If he makes the free throw, they can inbound down court and get a quicker shot. Then possibly a steal on the inbounds pass. And try to win or tie.
I will say a victory from a lower seed from a small conference is bigger than a lower seed from big conference bc a team like Syracuse is from the ACC conference so they've beaten schools that has been high ranking in there own conference.
Nothing will ever be like Dunk City. 2013 Florida Gulf Coast U brought the nation to their feet on multiple occasions with their high flying acts. Being what I believe to be the first 15 seed to make the sweet 16
This is the one USA sporting event that compares to English and Euro events in terms of crowd participation and excitement...(at least inside the stadium). Out side is usually tame.
March Madness begins mid-March (around time for St. Patrick’s Day, March 17). Some fans travel to Las Vegas for watching and betting (Thursday / Friday) on the Games. When upsets are occurring - Crazy Energy !
I'm not sure if y'all know this or not, but the 16 seed in the NCAA Tournament is NOT the 16th best team in the country. The bracket is divided into four sections, each with 16 teams ranked 1-16. Most of the seeds from 10ish-16 are only in the tournament because they won their conference tournament. So UMBC beating UVA is actually incredible. Sorry if y'all already knew this but I couldn't remember and wanted u to rly understand how insane this is.
The last clip with the dunk at the buzzer was North Carolina State beating Houston in the 1983 national championship game. One of the biggest upsets ever in a national championship game. NC State was #6 seed going into the tournament. Houston was the best team in the country during the regular season. The draw for the 2023 NCAA tournament will be next Sunday, March 12.
Regarding the seeding, for most of the lower seeds they have to win their conference championship in order to make the national tournament. For all of the high seeds, that doesn’t matter, they are so good that they’d make the tournament no matter what.
Also, there is 356 Division 1 teams. A 16 seed beating a 1 seed is essentially like a top four team in the country loosing to a 200-300th ranked team. 16 seeds are conference champions of tiny conferences. I’d say like a National league club beating a Premier league club in the FA Cup.
i highly recommend watching the 2022 national championship game (or highlights from it): Kansas vs North Carolina. It was the largest championship game comeback of all time.
The tournament effectively consists of 64 teams (four play-in games bump the total to 68). Four brackets seeded 1-16, after two rounds 16 teams are left, dubbed the Sweet Sixteen. They play and the winners are dubbed the Elite 8. Once they play, you have the Final Four for the semis and championship. All rounds are single elimination. There's no reseeding or changes to the linear brackets along the way. Due to the nature of how qualification for the tournament works, some of these upsets are the equivalent of a team from Vanarama South knocking off a top 4 Premier League side. Others are closer to a Championship league team beating City or United, or Leicester winning the Prem. All upsets, but not all alike.
My father was a high school basketball coach for years. I used to love basketball but over the years watching it's toll on him I gradually moved away from it and watched more football. I will say though I always root for the underdogs in March madness. Those young kids get to show their love and dedication to the game. It reminds me of how my Dad's underdog team played. Little school with big hearts. I am glad you guys showed this, it brings back sweet memories.
That game where they said David over Goliath, looking back on it, it really wasn't considering it was Davidson and who was playing for them at PG and what he would go on to do. He was simply giving us a glimpse into the magic. A little-known person that would go on to take the NBA by storm called Steph Curry.
The Houston/NC State game at the end is an interesting pick, because that was the Championship game. One thing to watch for when it comes to March Madness is to not trust the #5 Seed. These are teams that are larger schools from better conferences that aren’t as good there. They get placed against the 12th seed, which are smaller schools that are the best of their conference. At this level of play, 5 good guys is enough to pull an upset.
North Carolina State 54, Houston 52. The very last moment of your video, the end of the 1983 national championship game in Albuquerque, is the most important event in turning March Madness into a national obsession, bar none.
@DNreacts so there’s context to the UMBC-Virginia game : the university of Virginia ( located in Charlottesville) was the OVERALL NUMBER 1 SEED against university of Maryland Baltimore county ( which was a 16 seed ) previous to that 16 seeds were 138-0 before UMBC ( as Maryland - Baltimore county is colloquially known beat them ) and not only did they beat them they beat them by 20 points, now we can add the Furman university palladins to the list guess who they beat in the first round ….I’ll give u a hint , it’s a school in orange and navy located in Charlottesville Virginia.
I hope you guys picked up on the fact that the higher seeds are invariably wearing white uniforms (home kits) while the underdogs are wearing dark colored ones (away kits)This will immediately tell you who the lower seed is when you join a game in progress..
One thing that I think may not be conveyed by this video is the historical context of the teams playing. While the seed tells you the relative strength of a team in a given year, it doesn't tell you the amount of success these teams have had over time. For example, Kansas, Duke, and Kentucky and others from this video are all considered "Blue Bloods" because of their historical success for several decades, so when one of those teams loses to a low seed it is even more unexpected. On the other end of the spectrum, many of the low seeds in this video are experiencing the biggest win in their schools history, while some are teams that come from a bigger conference or have had successful runs before.
Some of these are a bit misleading. For example at 3:00, Syracuse may be the lower seed but they are a traditional basketball powerhouse. It's not the same as UMBC, Mercer, Middle Tennessee, or Lehigh winning their games.
One thing a newer fan might not realize is how long the last minute of a basketball game is. You cant really tell in a reaction video but the ending to a basketball game is very technical. The team thats down will intentionally foul and try to hit a 3 and then get a steal. If they dont hit a 3 or get a steal they intentionally foul and start over again. Sometimes when a team is LEADING by 3 they will also intentionally foul, because then they force the opponent to NOT get a 3. Theres A LOT of gamesmanship to end a close basketball game. The last minute on the clock can take 45 real time minutes.....
Also just to let you know March Madness technically started this past week on Wednesday or Thursday with the lower level Conferences and Leagues the bigger Conferences Start this Wednesday and Thursday. Selection Sunday is in next weekend.
You guys should watch last years NCAA championship. It was Kansas vs. UNC. My school ended up winning the game and everybody here went crazy, it was just an amazing atmosphere!
It's not a perfect analogy, but imagine a single elimination tournament involving the top couple teams of every league from the Premier League down to the National League with a couple of middle performers from Premier and Championship to pad it out. The way you might seed it out is Premier top highest, then Champ top, Premier mid, Champ mid/1 top, 2 top, and lastly the rest of the 2 top/National. Essentially what you're seeing with a 16/15 upsetting a 1/2 is a National team upending a top Premier team with the added drama of ending several of their players careers. 12 seed vs 5 seed is notorious for consistently having at least 1 upset a tournament because of how the seeding works out. You're taking teams over performing in their league and matching them up against teams that can be considered to be having a relatively disappointing seasons in higher leagues to duke it out.
you guys should watch the espn 30 for 30 called "survive and advance" about the team ft in the last clip. one of the greatest underdog stories of all time
March Madness covers more than just the NCAA Division -1A Tournament, notably the NIT (The Nation Invitational Tournament) and CBI. There are also the lower division NCAA tournaments as well. There is actually a reward for a team wining their Division -1A League championship, an automatic bid to the NIT, 32 leagues, 32 invitations to the NIT. If a team wins both their season league championship and then their league tournament championship they go to the prestigious NCAA Division -1A Tournament AKA "The BIg Dance". The spots that are opened up by this in the NIT are filled in by team chosen by a selection committee. I won't go into the CBI Tournament, to avoid information overloud. The NCAA also owns and runs the NIT.
The 32 conference winners go to the main NCAA tournament, not the NIT. The NIT is for the next teams that didn't make the 68 team cut in the big dance. Unless you are a small school and you just want a post season bid, the NIT isn't really exciting
@@NannerBrams No, in the past that was true for many conferences which had no tournament. Today all 32 conferences have a tournaments, the winner of the conference tournament receiving the conference Auto-bid to the NCAA. If a team has the best conference record at the end of conference play, they automatically qualify for the NIT (per the NCAA web site). Some might confuse the conference TOURNAMENT championship with the conference LEAGUE Championship.
For the tournament if you don’t know the seeding typically the “underdog” is the team with the colorful uniform and the team in wearing their mostly white uniform is the “favored” team. Great reacts guys. Best way to learn is (the long way) is to pick a team to cheer for that has some history of winning so you can be fairly sure they will be relevant over the next few years as you learn the game and historic rivals. That’s how I’ve been learning rugby over the past year although I chose the Wasps last year only to have them go bankrupt and get shut down this year. How crazy is that 😂😂. That’s unheard of in pro US sports. Anyway, as for college basketball might I suggest Duke. This is completely an unbiased and random selection on my part 😂😂😂. Let’s go Duke!!
home teams wear the lighter color uni"s also I might add, as some old scoreboards in the past simply went "Home" and " away" teams. Light uni's still given the "home" designation even on neutral courts like the NCAA Tournament. (higher seeds considered the home team)
So that Morehead State vs Louisville game, in real time the annoucers thought there was supposed to be a foul called. The slow motion replay was shown, and it was a clean blocked. Controversial for sure, but the right call.
UCLA vs the zags in 06 that was a great Gm back and forth. If you guys wanna check out a basketball dynasty check out Ucla and Duke ucla had John wooden for theirs Duke had Coach K both we’ll accomplished and classy guys
You guys should watch Jimmer Fredette in college. Never seen a better scorer in college and probably the most famous a college basketball player has been while still in college.
If my schedule allows I’d for sure watch a watch along for the draw. I believe it’s usually Sunday at around 4pm here in Texas, so probably 9:00 pm for y’all. It only lasts an hour or so
I can just imagine if the FA Cup were held like March Madness. The only difference is after every round of the FA Cup they draw whereas March Madness games are fixed so that if a team wins their next opponent will be 1 of 2 teams in their bracket. Maybe if the FA Cup did the same as March Madness when there are 64 teams left,
They have Murray State over Vandy and not Austin Peay (14) over Illinois (3)? The OVC Govs upset in 87 was in the top 10 all time upsets for the longest time until recent years. The following year OVC Murray State (14) upset NC State (3) and then the next year OVC's MTSU (13) took out Florida State (4).
I make close to 50 brackets every year. None of them stay perfect after the first day. I do different strategies to making brackets such as flipping a coin, asking a friend to pick a color (the 2 primary colors of the teams playing), or even which team’s real life mascot would win in the wild. Gotta get creative to try to be the first person to ever have a perfect bracket. When making a bracket, the more you think about a game, the more you’re going to be wrong. Just make a pick and move on, then kick yourself days later asking “why did I think that was a good idea?” Keep up the good work
Tbh, the University of Maryland-Baltimore College's win over #1 Virginia should have an asterisk next to it. UMBC had 21 wins in their season even b4 their conference tourney & finished w/ 24. Virginia was the overall top #1 team in the nation yet didn't get to play the winner of 1 of the play-in games for 16 seeds (those teams typically are just above or even under .500 for the season). I don't know what the committee was thinking when they put these 2 together, but they often make mistakes. Power conference teams that don't get 20 wins are often over seeded whilst mid-majors & low-majors w/ better records are often under seeded. You can take it to the ATM it'll happen again this year.
Heads up, the tournament selection show is usually at about 6:30 Eastern US time so you'll be up a little late that night. Not absurdly so, but just letting you know.
One thing that’s lost in the theatrics is how small some of these schools are that upset the Goliath’s. I mean some are tiny schools with tiny budgets and limited scholarships. Some of these wins are truly miraculous in nature.
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UMBC is the only time a 16 seed has won a game. They were previously 0-138 before the game.
And to add to that, the average margin of victory is about 30 points. That’s why it was even more insane that this was a blowout against Virginia
I watched a condensed replay of that game. Each of the UMBC players was in the zone of their life in that game, difficult shots, finesse, 50% from 3pt, ridiculous.
Virginia that year had a historically good season, but ran an 8 man rotation. By the tournament, they had lost 3 of their top 8 including their best player. (This is as I recall)
Before UMBC in the men's tournament, the only 16-seed that's beaten a 1 was Harvard in the women's tournament in the late 1990s. Women did it first.
@@elijahfoster2 ETSU was very close in 2009
I went to UMBC it was so crazy when they beat Virginia, campus was wild. We don't even have a football team so to beat the #1 overall seed in the NCAA tourney was unbelievable. The entire game I was just waiting for Virginia to go on a 30 point run and crush my hopes lol
As a UVA fan, I would trade that loss for the National Championship the next year any day, but man, that was a dark day on grounds after that loss. I was a first year for the UMBC season, and a second year for the national championship.
hunter was injured
@@sawmill035 arguably, the only March Madness story that could be bigger than that game is Loyola Chicago from 2017(or something like that)
the upsets are electric but close finishes are awesome as well. A few years ago Gonzaga played UCLA, Gonzaga was undefeated and won on a buzzer beater if I remember correctly. That game was so much fun to watch. Next year my team Kansas went down early and came back to win the final. Both were seeded games but the drama was incredible.
It was not a NCAA tournament game, but regular season. In 1982 Virginia was ranked 1st in the country and featured one of the great collegiate centers in history, 7'4" Ralph Samson. Virginia went to Hawaii and lost to a small Hawaiian team, Chaminade University. Not many of us had heard of Chaminade before that game.
Sounds like a massive upset!
That was the year my Tar Heels beat Virginia. I was a young 4th grade teacher then, with an entire soccer team in my class who all decided to pull hard for Virginia. One of the parents told me that when the buzzer went off, their son turned to his father and said, " Daddy, do I have to go to school tomorrow?" I made all those boys put their desks in front of a full page picture of Dean Smith cutting down the nets. 40 years have passed and they still go on Facebook and remind me of that day!😇🤣
An absolute must see video...the last basket shows Jimmy V running around...watch: Jimmy V speech
A few things that I think are important for context to understand how these upsets happen, and why they are so common during the tournament.
First off, these games are all played at neutral locations, and there will be multiple games from across the bracket being played in that location. In the first two rounds, each location has 8 teams playing their ties at the venue. That means that even for the biggest teams (#1 and 2 seeds) with the largest fan bases, they might only have 65% of the fans there. This means that if a #4 seed is playing in the same location as where a different #1 seed is playing, all of the neutral #1 fans will start cheering for the underdog.
Also, most of the biggest teams don’t have players that stay for all four years, they leave after 1-2 years to go play in the NBA. This means there is constant turnover on the squad each year. These little schools that pull an upset usually have a core group of 3-4 juniors/seniors that have team chemistry and experience together.
Lastly, they need to get hot and start raining down 3s because their players are almost always smaller so it’s much harder to score from inside the arc.
Very good points. I hope they understand your explanation.
When the smaller schools get an automatic bid, they’re always a low seed such as 13,14,15,16. This means that the teams who dont win their conference tournament, at worst get a 12 seed. Usually the 12 seeds from big schools are a lot better than the small schools who are a 13 seed. This is why there’s a lot of first round upsets where the 12 beats the 5 or the 11 beats the 6. The teams are a lot closer in competition than a 4 vs 13 or 3 vs 14 and so on.
You guys are proper sports fans. I used to think your interests were to generate clicks and views, but your enthusiasm is genuine and infectious, so my apologies for thinking otherwise. You two have gotten me excited again about March Madness! Thanks! Keep up the great videos.
Thanks Ike, appreciate the support!
So great to see coach Jim Valvano in the last clip. He unfortunately got cancer and died not long after this, but I always remember how exuberant he was and gave one of the best speeches of all time near the end of his life for the V foundation which has raised millions for cancer research. "Don't give up, don't ever give up".
That UMBC - Virginia game was stunning. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, kept waiting for a Virginia comeback that never came. They weren't just a 1-seed either, they were the best of the 1-seeds (top seeded team in the whole tournament)! And to lose by so much.. It didn't feel real.
And then for Virginia to win the national championship the very next year was the ultimate redemption story.
One thing to understand about these upsets is just how different some of these teams/schools/players are, especially in the new NIL era where players can make money off endorsements. Last year #15 seed St. Peter's beat #2 seed Kentucky. St. Peter's plays in an arena that seats 3,000 people (and is never filled) while Kentucky plays in front of 23,000 in a state-of-the-art facility. Kentucky's teams are typically filled with future NBA players while march madness represents the final moments of basketball for many of the St. Peter's players. St. Peter's has a total enrollment of around 2,000 while many schools eclipse 40,000 with large athletic department budgets where the players are compensated well via various endorsements while playing for major schools. At St. Peter's opportunities like that are limited.
John Calipari, the head coach of Kentucky, makes of $8 million per year in salary alone, while many low-major D1 head coaches sit around $300,000. A D1 head coaching gig will always pay well, but the amount of resources the coach of Kentucky is working with versus the coach of St. Peter's is insane to comprehend. So the fact that St. Peter's won was an upset which is difficult to replicate at the professional ranks in any sport.
What makes the NCAA tournament fascinating is that the so--called favorites are that because they play in a better conference but there are times when the underdogs who win are actually larger schools in population than the favorites so the it puts a twist on the "little" guy beating the "big" guy
Wish they would’ve shown more of UAB over Iowa State. I was working on campus at the time and we celebrated like crazy when we took the lead. I ended up rolling my ankle 😭
What makes march madness tournament so special is a lot of these underdogs aren't seen a lot so these top seeds may not have a lot of tape to study the opponents.
Also a lot of these of these teams are playing in neutral sites throughout the tournament (except #1 seeds where they make them closest to their home area they can early on). So while fans do travel with the teams, you do get a lot of neutral fans at these games. In the opening round, there's 4 games played at the same court throughout the day, they just play at noon, 3, 6 and 9pm (around those times). So a lot of neutral fans or fans of teams in the same bracket get caught up wanting the upsets. So the longer those games are close for top seeds, the more the fans believe that those upsets can happen.
That last clip is one of the most famous of all March Madness clips. It was the 1983 Championship Game. Houston was a huge favorite to win.
If you want to get a little more into it and see some of the teams that'll be playing in March Madness I highly recommend trying to follow some of the conference tournaments this week. They'll be on all day every day until Selection Sunday starts and the winners of each tournament are guaranteed to be in the field of 68
I'm in Oklahoma and I'm watching Kennesaw State right now. 😂
I don't know where that is 😂😃😂
Sunday, March 12, 4 p.m. MST: NCAA Tournament Selection Show
March 14-15: First Four games in Dayton, Ohio
March 16-17: First round games at various location
March 18-19: Second round games at various locations
March 23-24: Sweet 16 games at various locations
March 25-26: Elite Eight games at various locations
April 1: Final Four games at NRG Stadium in Houston
April 3: NCAA Championship Game at NRG Stadium in Houston
Thank you for this!
@@DNReacts now the seeding is done randomly and can go as high as 128 teams if in the event of massive injury
This is what makes March Madness so fun. There are always upsets. Every year there is some Cinderella team that makes it to the sweet sixteen or elite eight and occasionally one that makes it to the final four.
There were some very old clips in this video. A testament to how moments of heroics in this tournament are never forgotten and cement teams and players forever into our collective memories. College teams have reunions decades into the future where they bring the members of their past teams to lavish ceremonies to honor and remember their achievements. Many players and coaches are honored forever on plaques or bronze statues erected on their campus and have stadiums named after them. Its quite crazy. But fun as hell!! 😛
Great watching you two blokes get a look at March Madness. The upsets (which to be fair are rare) usually the top seeds win and the absolute two best teams play in the semifinals and finals. The finality of a loss. The excitement of these young guys playing on such a big stage. The attendance of these games are always sold out at every venue no matter who is playing. Its filling out your brackets and seeing how far your teams go before one of them loses, nonstop action for about 3 weeks. New heroes emerge every tournament and leave an unforgettable mark on this tournaments' history that will never be forgotten. Love your channel guys.
Great comment! Thank you so much, glad you’re enjoying the channel.
That one upset of Murray State 13 seed beating Vandy a 4 seed always sticks out to me and gives me goosebumps. My family is Murray State fans. My dad went wild when that shot was made. Me and my brother have went on to attend Murray State. Great school, great basketball tradition! We aren't going to make the tournament this year, but over the last 20-30 years we have been recognized nationally as one of the best mid-majors (smaller schools) in basketball. Go Racers!
i bet your a bit disappointed with Ja Morant's recent actions, but thats just my guess though-
Great read of this, thanks Willster!
I'm from VA and recognized a few teams. That VCU game was crazy, and being in Richmond at the time (home of the VCU Rams) was a wild time.
I graduated from NC State and was a student when we upset Houston for the National Championship. Good times.
Rounds 2 and 3 this year will be played in my hometown Birmingham, AL close to home for the Alabama crimson tide and UAB blazers. Can’t wait to attend some of these games
Also with the clip where Davidson was playing and they made the David and Goliath reference, Davidson is a smaller school and not s traditional power house program but on that team was Steph Curry who now is arguably one of the most prolific 3pt shooters in nba history. But the 08 run Davidson made to the elite 8 was remarkable and they knocked out traditionally strong programs with wins over Gonzaga the # 7 seed, Georgetown the # 2 seed and Wisconsin the # 3 seed, all while being A #10 seed. While falling to # 1 sees Kansas in the region final.
That was a great run.
You can't go wrong reacting to NC State winning the National Championship in 1983. They're the ultimate Cinderella team. (The clip of the winning shot 12:14) You also can't go wrong reacting to Villanova knocking off #1 Georgetown in 1985. Both are classics with great back stories.
It helps to understand these schools and their histories. It's adds more to the narrative than just the seeding alone.
Yesss thank you
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The small conferences championship games going on right now and this week. Mid-major and Power 5 tournaments starting today and later this week, too.
Ok in prep for Oral Roberts making it again after winning their conference, you gotta watch their run in 2021, they were the second 15 seed to make it to the sweet 16. They upset Ohio State in overtime, then Florida in the second round. Both incredibly close games.
The reason I highlight Oral Roberts is because 3/5 of their starters return (including the #1 scorer in the country that year, Max Abmas. He was also the only person other than Steph Curry to score 25+ in all of his NCAA tourney games), and the team is better this year than they were that year. Definitely worth watching a highlight video from. They are one of the top 10 most fun teams to watch, lots of 3’s a 5’11” Max Abmas point guard, and a 7’5” center that shoots 3’s more than layups and dunks. Truly a spectacle😂
It’s so funny when you guys pause in the middle of a 10 second clip and speculate on questions about what could be happening just to see you hit play and they explain it 🤣
It’s like in lectures when they say please save all questions until the end
I think one reason Virginia tended to struggle a bit in the tournament was that the years when they were very good, they were one of the slowest-paced teams in the country. It means the other team doesn't have to be lucky for as long, effectively. They did win the title one year, but before that they had a solid reputation as a choke artist.
The Hampton-Iowa State game from 2001 without the seeds listed was a 15-over-2. I had said in a comment on a previous video that that happened only about once every 5-6 years, but it's become a bit more common recently - partly because of the introduction of the First Four in 2011 (which means that a couple of the 15 seeds would have been 14s under the older rules). After 2001, we went 11 years before it happened again - and then there were three in a span of two years.
9:38 that upset was when most of America learned who Steph Curry was, he was #30 on Davidson
Most people are commenting on the UMBC-Virginia game, but the Syracuse-Virginia game deserves some context too. It was much later in the tournament than most upsets (Elite Eight) but Syracuse is a bit of a unique case. They have been in decline the past decade or so, but they still often do well in the tournament because they play a very unique type of defense - the 2-3 zone. Since teams don't know who they are playing until just a few days before, it can be hard to beat teams that have strange looks as you don't have as long to prep against them, and Syracuse has taken full advantage of that in the past decade.
I attend Northwestern State University so it's awesome to see them in the compilation.
the 2021 Final Four game between Gonzaga and UCLA is one of the best games in tournament history.
Great clip at 11:51. You’ve got future two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash missing(!) a clutch free throw. He ends being one of the better free throw shooters in NBA history. Lucky his miss didn’t come back to bite them.
Would love to see you guys watch Ken Griffey Jr and Ichiro Suzuki highlights. I’m a little biased as a Mariners fans, but those two have some of the most crazy baseball highlights you will ever see.
Thanks, have got Ken Griffey Jr on the list, have added Ichiro Suzuki!
@@DNReacts sweeeeeeeet! Looking forward to it!
Great stuff guys.
Thank you Dean, really appreciate it!
I'm so glad that you both are going to follow this year's tournament. You are going to have a personal experience of what is March Madness! These kids give it all they've got in each elimination game.
The last free throw he missed you hear the announcer say just hit it off the rim. He has made the first. They didn’t show it. So it was a 4 point game. The strategy there is you can score 3 max unless you’re fouled. But the extra seconds running off making them go down the court is what is important.
If he makes the free throw, they can inbound down court and get a quicker shot. Then possibly a steal on the inbounds pass. And try to win or tie.
I will say a victory from a lower seed from a small conference is bigger than a lower seed from big conference bc a team like Syracuse is from the ACC conference so they've beaten schools that has been high ranking in there own conference.
Nothing will ever be like Dunk City. 2013 Florida Gulf Coast U brought the nation to their feet on multiple occasions with their high flying acts. Being what I believe to be the first 15 seed to make the sweet 16
Tournament rounds are round of 64 then 32, then the sweet sixteen, elite eight, final four and then championship
This is the one USA sporting event that compares to English and Euro events in terms of crowd participation and excitement...(at least inside the stadium). Out side is usually tame.
I am really looking forward to seeing you guys enjoy your first tournament. I’ll try to watch your livestream of the selection show
Thank you RKW. Really appreciate the support!
March Madness begins mid-March (around time for St. Patrick’s Day, March 17).
Some fans travel to Las Vegas for watching and betting (Thursday / Friday) on the Games.
When upsets are occurring - Crazy Energy !
We’re so excited for this in 2024. We had an incredible time with everyone for this years and hoping 2024 will be even bigger and better
I'm not sure if y'all know this or not, but the 16 seed in the NCAA Tournament is NOT the 16th best team in the country. The bracket is divided into four sections, each with 16 teams ranked 1-16. Most of the seeds from 10ish-16 are only in the tournament because they won their conference tournament. So UMBC beating UVA is actually incredible. Sorry if y'all already knew this but I couldn't remember and wanted u to rly understand how insane this is.
The last clip with the dunk at the buzzer was North Carolina State beating Houston in the 1983 national championship game. One of the biggest upsets ever in a national championship game. NC State was #6 seed going into the tournament. Houston was the best team in the country during the regular season. The draw for the 2023 NCAA tournament will be next Sunday, March 12.
Regarding the seeding, for most of the lower seeds they have to win their conference championship in order to make the national tournament. For all of the high seeds, that doesn’t matter, they are so good that they’d make the tournament no matter what.
Also, there is 356 Division 1 teams. A 16 seed beating a 1 seed is essentially like a top four team in the country loosing to a 200-300th ranked team. 16 seeds are conference champions of tiny conferences. I’d say like a National league club beating a Premier league club in the FA Cup.
Selection Sunday for march madness is next Sunday around 8-9 eastern standard time
i highly recommend watching the 2022 national championship game (or highlights from it): Kansas vs North Carolina. It was the largest championship game comeback of all time.
Steph Curry played for that Davidson team at 9:45. He went on a TEAR that year.
The tournament effectively consists of 64 teams (four play-in games bump the total to 68). Four brackets seeded 1-16, after two rounds 16 teams are left, dubbed the Sweet Sixteen. They play and the winners are dubbed the Elite 8. Once they play, you have the Final Four for the semis and championship.
All rounds are single elimination. There's no reseeding or changes to the linear brackets along the way.
Due to the nature of how qualification for the tournament works, some of these upsets are the equivalent of a team from Vanarama South knocking off a top 4 Premier League side. Others are closer to a Championship league team beating City or United, or Leicester winning the Prem. All upsets, but not all alike.
My father was a high school basketball coach for years. I used to love basketball but over the years watching it's toll on him I gradually moved away from it and watched more football. I will say though I always root for the underdogs in March madness. Those young kids get to show their love and dedication to the game. It reminds me of how my Dad's underdog team played. Little school with big hearts. I am glad you guys showed this, it brings back sweet memories.
That game where they said David over Goliath, looking back on it, it really wasn't considering it was Davidson and who was playing for them at PG and what he would go on to do. He was simply giving us a glimpse into the magic. A little-known person that would go on to take the NBA by storm called Steph Curry.
The Houston/NC State game at the end is an interesting pick, because that was the Championship game.
One thing to watch for when it comes to March Madness is to not trust the #5 Seed. These are teams that are larger schools from better conferences that aren’t as good there. They get placed against the 12th seed, which are smaller schools that are the best of their conference. At this level of play, 5 good guys is enough to pull an upset.
North Carolina State 54, Houston 52. The very last moment of your video, the end of the 1983 national championship game in Albuquerque, is the most important event in turning March Madness into a national obsession, bar none.
@DNreacts so there’s context to the UMBC-Virginia game : the university of Virginia ( located in Charlottesville) was the OVERALL NUMBER 1 SEED against university of Maryland Baltimore county ( which was a 16 seed ) previous to that 16 seeds were 138-0 before UMBC ( as Maryland - Baltimore county is colloquially known beat them ) and not only did they beat them they beat them by 20 points, now we can add the Furman university palladins to the list guess who they beat in the first round ….I’ll give u a hint , it’s a school in orange and navy located in Charlottesville Virginia.
I hope you guys picked up on the fact that the higher seeds are invariably wearing white uniforms (home kits) while the underdogs are wearing dark colored ones (away kits)This will immediately tell you who the lower seed is when you join a game in progress..
Fun fact: UMBC"S website crashed because of all the traffic it was receiving after beating Virginia
One thing that I think may not be conveyed by this video is the historical context of the teams playing. While the seed tells you the relative strength of a team in a given year, it doesn't tell you the amount of success these teams have had over time. For example, Kansas, Duke, and Kentucky and others from this video are all considered "Blue Bloods" because of their historical success for several decades, so when one of those teams loses to a low seed it is even more unexpected. On the other end of the spectrum, many of the low seeds in this video are experiencing the biggest win in their schools history, while some are teams that come from a bigger conference or have had successful runs before.
Some of these are a bit misleading. For example at 3:00, Syracuse may be the lower seed but they are a traditional basketball powerhouse. It's not the same as UMBC, Mercer, Middle Tennessee, or Lehigh winning their games.
One thing a newer fan might not realize is how long the last minute of a basketball game is. You cant really tell in a reaction video but the ending to a basketball game is very technical. The team thats down will intentionally foul and try to hit a 3 and then get a steal. If they dont hit a 3 or get a steal they intentionally foul and start over again. Sometimes when a team is LEADING by 3 they will also intentionally foul, because then they force the opponent to NOT get a 3. Theres A LOT of gamesmanship to end a close basketball game. The last minute on the clock can take 45 real time minutes.....
Also just to let you know March Madness technically started this past week on Wednesday or Thursday with the lower level Conferences and Leagues the bigger Conferences Start this Wednesday and Thursday. Selection Sunday is in next weekend.
Avid Virginia (UVA) fan here, we love to mess up in march, but at least we won the whole thing the year after we lost to UMBC
You guys should watch last years NCAA championship. It was Kansas vs. UNC. My school ended up winning the game and everybody here went crazy, it was just an amazing atmosphere!
Thanks Erick, have added this to our list!
the guy who hit the shot at 3:44 , his dad was the head coach that fell off of his chair
It's not a perfect analogy, but imagine a single elimination tournament involving the top couple teams of every league from the Premier League down to the National League with a couple of middle performers from Premier and Championship to pad it out. The way you might seed it out is Premier top highest, then Champ top, Premier mid, Champ mid/1 top, 2 top, and lastly the rest of the 2 top/National. Essentially what you're seeing with a 16/15 upsetting a 1/2 is a National team upending a top Premier team with the added drama of ending several of their players careers.
12 seed vs 5 seed is notorious for consistently having at least 1 upset a tournament because of how the seeding works out. You're taking teams over performing in their league and matching them up against teams that can be considered to be having a relatively disappointing seasons in higher leagues to duke it out.
you guys should watch the espn 30 for 30 called "survive and advance" about the team ft in the last clip. one of the greatest underdog stories of all time
Thank you Ben. Added to the list!
As a UConn fan I've gotten to see 4 mens national championships... but god damn that 2006 game still stings.
I don’t know if y’all noticed, but there were some legends in that video, most notably Steph Curry.
March Madness covers more than just the NCAA Division -1A Tournament, notably the NIT (The Nation Invitational Tournament) and CBI. There are also the lower division NCAA tournaments as well. There is actually a reward for a team wining their Division -1A League championship, an automatic bid to the NIT, 32 leagues, 32 invitations to the NIT. If a team wins both their season league championship and then their league tournament championship they go to the prestigious NCAA Division -1A Tournament AKA "The BIg Dance". The spots that are opened up by this in the NIT are filled in by team chosen by a selection committee.
I won't go into the CBI Tournament, to avoid information overloud.
The NCAA also owns and runs the NIT.
The 32 conference winners go to the main NCAA tournament, not the NIT. The NIT is for the next teams that didn't make the 68 team cut in the big dance. Unless you are a small school and you just want a post season bid, the NIT isn't really exciting
@@NannerBrams No, in the past that was true for many conferences which had no tournament. Today all 32 conferences have a tournaments, the winner of the conference tournament receiving the conference Auto-bid to the NCAA. If a team has the best conference record at the end of conference play, they automatically qualify for the NIT (per the NCAA web site). Some might confuse the conference TOURNAMENT championship with the conference LEAGUE Championship.
For the tournament if you don’t know the seeding typically the “underdog” is the team with the colorful uniform and the team in wearing their mostly white uniform is the “favored” team. Great reacts guys. Best way to learn is (the long way) is to pick a team to cheer for that has some history of winning so you can be fairly sure they will be relevant over the next few years as you learn the game and historic rivals. That’s how I’ve been learning rugby over the past year although I chose the Wasps last year only to have them go bankrupt and get shut down this year. How crazy is that 😂😂. That’s unheard of in pro US sports. Anyway, as for college basketball might I suggest Duke. This is completely an unbiased and random selection on my part 😂😂😂. Let’s go Duke!!
home teams wear the lighter color uni"s also I might add, as some old scoreboards in the past simply went "Home" and " away" teams. Light uni's still given the "home" designation even on neutral courts like the NCAA Tournament. (higher seeds considered the home team)
So that Morehead State vs Louisville game, in real time the annoucers thought there was supposed to be a foul called. The slow motion replay was shown, and it was a clean blocked. Controversial for sure, but the right call.
UCLA vs the zags in 06 that was a great Gm back and forth. If you guys wanna check out a basketball dynasty check out Ucla and Duke ucla had John wooden for theirs Duke had Coach K both we’ll accomplished and classy guys
Y'all missed Step Curry in that Davidson clip.
Yall should watch the highlights of texas a&m vs lsu 7OT game they combined for 146 points scored
You guys should watch Jimmer Fredette in college. Never seen a better scorer in college and probably the most famous a college basketball player has been while still in college.
Just a heads up the very last one was the actual championship game.
If my schedule allows I’d for sure watch a watch along for the draw. I believe it’s usually Sunday at around 4pm here in Texas, so probably 9:00 pm for y’all. It only lasts an hour or so
5pm Central for me. I believe the UK is 6 hours ahead of us in CST
Make sure you fill out your bracket before the tournament begins. Show us before it starts. The best time in sports.
I'll say it again: Barton vs. Winona State. Best championship comeback.
Ever.
I can just imagine if the FA Cup were held like March Madness. The only difference is after every round of the FA Cup they draw whereas March Madness games are fixed so that if a team wins their next opponent will be 1 of 2 teams in their bracket.
Maybe if the FA Cup did the same as March Madness when there are 64 teams left,
That would be a great way to play the FA Cup!
NFL hospital passes are brutal
Where they said the coach fell off his stool was because he had a broken leg and was in a cast.
They have Murray State over Vandy and not Austin Peay (14) over Illinois (3)? The OVC Govs upset in 87 was in the top 10 all time upsets for the longest time until recent years. The following year OVC Murray State (14) upset NC State (3) and then the next year OVC's MTSU (13) took out Florida State (4).
I make close to 50 brackets every year. None of them stay perfect after the first day. I do different strategies to making brackets such as flipping a coin, asking a friend to pick a color (the 2 primary colors of the teams playing), or even which team’s real life mascot would win in the wild. Gotta get creative to try to be the first person to ever have a perfect bracket. When making a bracket, the more you think about a game, the more you’re going to be wrong. Just make a pick and move on, then kick yourself days later asking “why did I think that was a good idea?” Keep up the good work
Wow, this is dedication Reece. Love it!
Tbh, the University of Maryland-Baltimore College's win over #1 Virginia should have an asterisk next to it. UMBC had 21 wins in their season even b4 their conference tourney & finished w/ 24. Virginia was the overall top #1 team in the nation yet didn't get to play the winner of 1 of the play-in games for 16 seeds (those teams typically are just above or even under .500 for the season). I don't know what the committee was thinking when they put these 2 together, but they often make mistakes. Power conference teams that don't get 20 wins are often over seeded whilst mid-majors & low-majors w/ better records are often under seeded. You can take it to the ATM it'll happen again this year.
I really wanna have a few pints with you guys.
Thanks Eric, I’d never say no to a pint 😅
You might know this but in college there are only 2 halves of 20 minutes unlike the NBA which has 4 12 minute quarters.
Can’t wait for that live stream! I will be staying tuned, gentlemen!
The skill gap between the 1 seed and 16 seed is usually Insurmountable so probably 90 percent of the time the 16 seed will lose.
Y’all should react to Ray Lewis 52 cards
We will at some point!
I don’t watch much basketball, but March madness seems to always have some crazy moments
Heads up, the tournament selection show is usually at about 6:30 Eastern US time so you'll be up a little late that night. Not absurdly so, but just letting you know.
6pm-7pm EST
I think that would be 11:30 pm in London.
Please react to klay Thompson 37 points quarter (watch the one that tracks points on bottom left)
Thanks Shohan, have added this to our list!
One thing that’s lost in the theatrics is how small some of these schools are that upset the Goliath’s. I mean some are tiny schools with tiny budgets and limited scholarships. Some of these wins are truly miraculous in nature.
March Madness brings a bit of the FA Cup flavor. You are always looking for the giant killers.