Breaking down the crazy numbers from UMBC's historic win over Virginia

It's hard to quantify just exactly how crazy UMBC's 75-54 win over 1-seed Virginia was. 

But there are quite a few numbers that can put the game in perspective. We'll start with the most stark:

135 — Winning streak that the 1 seeds carried into Virginia’s matchup with UMBC, spanning 33 years from when the 16 seed was introduced in 1985. You could say history was on the side of the Cavaliers.

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11,401-8,058 — Total score over the 135 games between 1 and 16 seeds before UMBC-Virginia. That’s essentially an average score of 85-60, for a margin of 25 points per game, for a total of zero 16-seed wins. Here's how the scoring margin of every 16-1 game looks since 1985. Try to find UMBC:

6 — 1 seeds for the Cavaliers, who have never reached the championship game.

2 — NCAA tournament appearances for the Retrievers, who lost by 19 as a 15 seed in 2008, their only other trip to the Big Dance. 

2.18 — Percent of Capital One Bracket Challenge Game users that picked UMBC to beat Virginia, which wasn’t even the most confidence in a 16 seed this year.

That would be Penn over Kansas — a result picked in 3.28 percent of brackets and, like every time a 16 seed had been picked to win in the past 33 years before UMBC, wrong in every one.

16.65 — Percent that picked Virginia to win the championship — the second-highest percentage for any team. Somehow, the 0.15 percent that took UMBC to win the title have a better chance.

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18.9 — 3-pointers Virginia took per game this season. Against UMBC, they missed 18.

34 — Games in a row that Virginia had held its opponent to fewer than 70 points. Before the Retrievers scored 74. The last team to put up 70 on the Cavaliers: 12-seed UNCW in the first round of 2017’s NCAA tournament.

54.2 — Field goal percentage for the Retrievers against Virginia. The Cavaliers had held opponents to 37.5 percent from the field all year, the best mark in the country. 

363 — days between 20-point losses for UVa. On March 18, 2017, in the second round of the NCAA tournament, the Cavaliers fell 65-39 to No. 20 Florida. That was 33 games ago.

4 — Games that UMBC lost by 20+ points this season. The biggest came as a 44-point blowout against Albany, where the Retrievers failed to score 40 points, and lost 83-39. 

3 — Games in which a 1 seed has lost by 20 or more points since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. All came in the Elite Eight:

• 1992: UCLA lost 106-79 to No. 2 Indiana
• 1994: Missouri lost 92-72 to No. 2 Arizona
• 1998: Arizona lost 76-51 to No. 3 Utah 

0 — Perfect brackets after the game. There were 25 left through 28 games, but every one had the Cavaliers winning. Whoops.

0 — NCAA tournaments that will ever be the same.