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New Twitter followers for the @UMBCAthletics account for Maryland-Baltimore County after the 16-seeded team’s historic upset of No. 1 Virginia.
FIRST WORD You know, we don’t lose too often around here. So whenever we do lose, it’s a shock.”
Cincinnati guard Jacob Evans III, on the second-seeded Bearcats blowing a 22-point lead and losing 75-73 to seventhseeded Nevada. Cincinnati finished the season 31-5. Cincinnati matched the secondbiggest collapse in NCAA men’s tournament history. NOTABLE NUMBERS
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Online orders for UMBC apparel from Friday through Sunday evening, according to Bob Somers, director of the school bookstore. In the 2017 fiscal year, his store received 1,500 orders. “Eventually we ran out of UPS boxes, so we just started packing stuff in whatever we could find,” he said.
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Points, assists, rebounds for Sabrina Ionescu of second-seeded Oregon in Sunday’s 101-73 win over No. 10 Minnesota. It was the Ducks’ 11th consecutive victory. LAST WORD I don’t regret the joke, no I don’t, because of the fact it was a joke.’’
Knoxville, Tenn., radio host Cody McClure to Chicago Tribune columnist David Haugh, who called McClure to ask why he would use the “F” word in a tweet to insult American’s newest favorite nun, 98-year-old Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the Loyola of Chicago team chaplain. Haugh wrote he “wanted to at least give a so-called professional a chance to defend an outburst I considered unprofessional, unacceptable and wildly inappropriate. ... I wondered if McClure regretted hitting the send button. ... Pardon my ignorance, but what makes anybody want to verbally attack a senior citizen for a laugh?”