University of Virginia head basketball coach Tony Bennett gave full credit to the UMBC Retrievers, who became the first No. 16-seeded men's team to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament with a stunningly easy 74-54 blowout victory Friday night at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bennett didn't make excuses for his Cavaliers' lackluster performance at the defensive end during his postgame interview on CBS, instead praising the America East Conference champions' play, per ESPN.
"We got our butts whipped," he said. "That was not even close. And that's first a credit to the job Ryan [Odom] did.