UMBC’s unprecedented upset of Virginia on Friday night sent College Basketball Twitter, Sports Twitter and Western Hemisphere Twitter into complete and uncontrolled chaos. And where there is Twitter and chaos, Lane Kiffin can’t be too far behind.
As the Retrievers finalized the first 16–1 upset in NCAA tournament history, it was pointed out that a handful of Maryland politicians and UMBC sympathizers—governor Larry Hogan chief among them—had now seen their homer brackets picking UMBC over the tourney’s top seed come through in hilariously improbable fashion. This was to be expected: From Ted Cruz to Barack Obama, it’s not uncommon for politicians to err on the side of .