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UMBC stuns Virginia to make NCAA tournament history as first No. 16 seed beat No. 1 seed

SportsPulse: Marshall won their first ever NCAA tournament game pulling off the huge upset over Wichita State and show no signs of slowing down. USA TODAY Sports

CHARLOTTE — And on the 136th attempt, the basketball gods relented.

A No. 16 seed has finally beaten a No. 1 in the NCAA tournament. And even if you could see it coming somewhere, some time, in the future, it wasn’t supposed to be this.

College basketball has never seen a bigger upset than Maryland-Baltimore County 74, Virginia 54.

But it happened Friday night in the South Regional, taking down a team that just last week completed a golden 31-2 season with both the ACC regular season and conference tournament titles.