Guard K.J. Maura named America East Conference Defensive Player of the Year and Guard Jairus Lyles named First-team All-America

3:30 p.m.: Campus community gives the team a rousing send-off as they hit the road for Charlotte

9:36 p.m.: Zach Seidel ’12, M.S. ’15, UMBC director of multimedia communications, sends his now-infamous reply to Sports Illustrated writer Seth Davis’s tweet about writing UVA’s impending victory in Sharpie
10 p.m. UMBC website slows under the weight of hundreds of thousands of new visitors
10:25 p.m.: UMBC mascot True Grit wins first halftime dance contest
11:32 p.m.: UMBC beats UVA (74-54) to become the first No. 16 seed team to best a No. 1 seed in an NCAA men’s tournament
11:39 p.m.: Dan Rather tweets: “Do they make glass slippers this big? UMBC carved their program on the Mt. Rushmore of Cinderella stories. I’ve never seen this much shock and awe on the hardwood. I watched every minute. Whenever you hear, “we can’t”, tell them UMBC. #MarchMadness”

12:30 a.m.: DoIT gets the website back up to speed, thanks to more than a dozen staffers working overtime during their Spring Break
11 a.m.: Pep Band, True Grit, and UMBC dancers bring a major splash of black and gold to the Charlotte parade
Sports Illustrated posts a special digital cover reading “Sweetest 16. UMBC. Just UMBC.”
8:02 p.m.: A Mighty Girl posts on Facebook about the 1998 Harvard women’s basketball team winning the first ever 16 over 1 upset, and congratulating UMBC for “giving recognition where it’s due!”

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The Atlantic publishes “The Secret Behind the Greatest Upset in College Basketball History” by Dr. Hrabowski
4:36 p.m.: Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry gives the team unreleased new Under Armour shoes, prompting UMBC Athletics to tweet: “It‘s like Christmas in March (Madness)”
True Grit wins second halftime dance party
10:05 p.m.: NCAA run ends with defeat by Kansas State, 50-43

2 a.m.: Team returns to campus to a small crowd of super supporters and Baltimore/D.C. media

4 p.m.: UMBC announces Coach Ryan Odom’s amended contract
6:30 p.m. Governor Larry Hogan hosts Annapolis celebration for the team, followed by honors by the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate.

Coach Odom named 2018 Hugh Durham Award winner for top mid-major coach in college basketball
11 a.m.: Free! Free! Pizza! Pizza! — Little Caesars Pizza makes good on its “If Crazy Happens” promise to hand out free lunch pizzas to celebrate the first-ever #16 beating a #1 in men’s basketball.

7:05 p.m.: Coach Ryan Odom throws the ceremonial first pitch at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. A week later, he announced the Ravens’ fourth round draft pick from the deck of the USS Constellation.

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