A huge mistake by the Virginia player least expected to make one lifts Furman to the seemingly most unlikely of March Madness wins in the NCAA tournament.
It was barely noon Thursday, West Coast time, on the first day of the NCAA basketball tournament that will kidnap our attention for the rest of March and the first few days of April, when we got the ultimate reminder of why they call this March Madness.
What is, after all, psychotic and quirky about a bunch of college basketball games? Sure, there will be some exciting games, some upsets, some crazy stuff in the midst of all the hooping and hollering. But madness? But there it was, Virginia playing Furman. Virginia was nationally ranked all year, even getting as high as No. 2. Furman hadn’t been to an NCAA tournament since Jimmy Carter was president. Virginia was seeded No. 4 in its 16-team regional, Furman No. 13. Virginia plays in the prestigious and battle-tested ACC , Furman in the little known and generally disregarded Southern Conference.
So, when Virginia got the ball inbounds with about 10 seconds left and merely had to run out some time to protect its two-point victory, this would be a story of David almost slaying Goliath. Nothing more. Pats on the back for the Furman team. Deep exhaling for the Virginia team, which could quickly get to the scouting report of its next opponent., Virginia’s veteran point guard. Clark, a 5-foot-10 veteran from Woodland Hills, had been there and done this so many times before.
It didn’t. His fling was intercepted by a Furman player, who just had enough time to dribble back a few steps and pass to a teammate on the three-point line. The shot went up, the ball went through,
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