![]() When friends introduce him to people, the first thing they say is “Joe played for UMBC.” “You can measure my life by this: before that day, and after that day,” Sherburne said Wednesday. It takes a lot of luck in order to have a chance to win any game in the NCAA Tournament," he said.įormer UMBC guard Joe Sherburne said it remains the single greatest day of his life. 10 seed that lost in the opening round of this year's tourney, said Wednesday the win over Virginia was “a memory that will last a lifetime.” “It felt like my soul left my body, man,” UMBC guard Jourdan Grant said that day. Some players struggled to process the enormity of the moment, hugging each other long and hard. Diminutive 5-foot-8, 140-pound guard KJ, Maura and his teammates joked about there being "no more perfect brackets" and possibly becoming the focal point of a future ESPN "30 for 30" episode. ![]() Ryan Odom, the Retrievers' coach that season, said after the 2018 game "these are the moments that you dream of" while his players celebrated in a cramped locker room. This year's tournament had been expected to be wide open, with no juggernaut teams and top seeds vulnerable to schools eager to capture that “One Shining Moment” and place their name alongside UMBC. The women's side of March Madness has seen only one 16 knock off a 1: Harvard over Stanford in 1998. 1 seeds had gone 135-0 before UMBC routed Virginia 75-54 at Charlotte's Spectrum Center. ![]() While there were some close calls before 2018, No.
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