Big Dance: UMBC has entered the Singularity

Of all the wonders in this universe -- and thank you for decoding so many of them, Dr Hawking -- how can anyone explain this?

It's now a reality where the Virginia Cavaliers have been on the butt end of college basketball's greatest upset in two different centuries.

• In 1982, the Division II Chaminade Silverswords -- host of the Maui Invitational -- defeated Ralph Sampson and the top-ranked Wahoos, and now
• In the mother of all stunners, top-ranked Virginia was literally run outta the gym by America East representative and No 16 seed University of Maryland-Baltimore County in a 74-54 supernova of a rout.

 

Now ringing hollow is arrogant-at-large Jay Bilas' proclamation at tip-off that viewers should take a good look at UMBC then and there because they wouldn't be around for long.

Turns out that he -- as well as the great unwashed -- shoulda taken a closer look.

The stars were aligned for the Retrievers to be the first No 16 to take down a No 1, and the overall No 1 at that:

 

Coach Ryan Odom's approach to this game was to take the game to Virginia by being Virginia.

Clearly, it worked.

 

So where does the Big Dance go from here?

Will it be another 135 games before a No 16 rises up again? Or will college hoops' version of free agency -- ie- graduate transfers -- and a hail of treys enable low, low seeds to forever change the bracketscape?

Or have the Retrievers' fire-with-fire and Dan D'Antoni's stat lectures finally ushered humanity into the Singularity?

 

Awesome.

Can't wait to see the coaches that produces.

 

Then again, maybe human destiny's gonna take more than a couple of games to play out.

But they're a start.