There’re two reasons I’ll be a little anxious before tomorrow’s #1 Gonzaga vs. #16 Georgia State matchup. The first is the Wednesday, March 20, 2013 telecast of the ESPN panel show Around the Horn. ESPN journalist Pablo Torre confidently predicted Gonzaga would be the first #1 seed to lose to a #16 when they took on the Southern University Jaguars. Gonzaga pulled out 64–58 win in a game tied with less than four minutes to play. Torre was wrong, but I spent over 36 minutes thinking he might be right.
The second of course was 1-seed Virginia’s 2018 blowout loss to 16-seed University of Maryland, Baltimore County.