MINNEAPOLIS — De’Andre Hunter did not play in last season’s NCAA tournament with his teammates, tending to a broken wrist, but he felt what his teammates felt: all summer, all fall, all winter, all spring.
Failure.
He had to hear about it. See it. Feel it.
No. 1 seed Virginia loses to No. 16 seed UMBC in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
But Monday night, Hunter would score and sprint and show up time and time again to lift his team to accomplish something that no college basketball team may ever accomplish again in the span of one year: bounce back from losing to a No.