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Syracuse basketball and the stunning NCAA news: 'Somebody said Virginia's losing by 20'

Detroit -- The game was splashed on the giant scoreboard overhead at halftime for the late night crowd at Little Caesar's Arena.

Virginia-UMBC. The top-seeded Cavaliers were about to make the wrong kind of history and college basketball fans who paid to watch Syracuse vs. TCU were getting a basketball bonus.

That game, which ultimately went down as the most shocking upset ever in the NCAA Tournament (a 16 seed ousting a 1 seed), kept captivating everybody here, even as Syracuse and TCU trudged toward its conclusion.

Arena management put the game up on those giant scoreboards during time outs.