This went down long after UConn was eliminated, but with No. 12 Villanova's 75-69 upset win over Clemson late Friday night, the Tampa site officially became Upset City. (And no I'm not stealing that from ESPN.com; I'm stealing it from the group of four drunk college kids who were running up to every car in downtown Tampa holding a makeshift sign that said, you guessed it, 'Upset City.') Four games, four upsets. Two No. 12 seeds, two No. 13 seeds. Just crazy. It's the first time in NCAA tournament history that something of this magnitude happened. Take solace UConn fans, you're not the only supporters who wallowed in a beer or two (or 12) Friday night.
Here is the ESPN story recapping it all. And here is SI.com's story on the history-making night.
All UConn fans let out a collective cheer with the news that Hasheem Thabeet will return to the Huskies for his junior season. Possible additions aside, where do you think UConn is ranked to start the season next fall?
How do you feel about Doug Wiggins' decision to transfer from UConn? (When selecting 'I have a different opinion,' please elaborate in the comments section of the most recent blog post.)
Who do you think will transfer from UConn this offseason? (You may pick multiple answers; if choosing someone else, elaborate in the comments section fo the most recent blog post.)
Do you think Hasheem Thabeet will return to the Huskies next season?
About Me
- Matt Stout
- A 24-year-old East Haven native, Matt covers the UConn men's basketball team and the Connecticut Sun for the Norwich Bulletin. He graduated in 2006 from Boston University, and spent a year in New Hampshire covering the AHL's Manchester Monarchs and high school sports for Neighborhood News, Inc. While at BU, Matt covered men's and women's basketball and interned at the New Haven Register.
4 comments:
Matt, help me out: After reading this I went and looked at my bracket. Two of the upsets show up in one region and two in the other. Is that normal at the same site?
It's normal. When they came up the pods idea a few years ago, they put eight teams at one site, but four are usually from one region and four are from another. It's not just at Tampa. The other half of the West Region, for example, is out at Anaheim with part four teams from the South.
Huh. I never even noticed. I just assumed logical sites mapped to physical sites, as it were.
There are a lot of things that don't make sense with the NCAA tournament. How Tampa fits into the West region is beyond me.
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